Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-24
Civil Rights Bill
Bdckers Lose
Senate Battle
Attempt to Force
Measure Out of
Committee FoiIs
By ROBERT K. WALSH

Senate supporters of a House.
approved civil rights bill lost a
bitter battle today in an at
tempt to force the measure out
of the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee.
An objection by Senator Rus
sell. Democrat of Georgia, to al
request for such discharge &C
ton. was upheld by his Georgia
colleague. Senator George, who
was presiding as president pro
tenn at the start of the Senate
session today.
In the course of a vehement
debate confined entirely to sew
eral Democratic Senators, Dem
ocratic Leader johnson warned
that if proponents of the civil
rights bill persisted in trying to
obtain Senate consideration of
the controversial measure, they
not only might prolong the seS-
sion indefinitely, but also block
any action on such major meas
ures as the social security bill.
Il am not going to have the
responsibility and the blood on
my hands for killing the social
security BILL" Senator johnson
told Democratic Senators Leh-
man of New York, Douglas of
Illinois and Hennings of Mis-
souri,. But that's what is going
to happen if you persist in this"
Defeat May Not Be Final
The defeat of several efforts
by Senators Hennings, Douglas
and Lehman to pry the bill out
OF the Judiciary Committee was
not necessarily final. They indi-
Gated they might renew similar
motions later in the week. Their
chances of success, however,
seemed exceedingly remote be-
cause all indications pointed to
a determination by the Senate
leaders to adjourn by Saturday
and also to recess at the end of
each daily session until then.
The parliamentary effect of
such recess rather than daily
adjournment action would be to
maintain the same Legislative
day." This has been the pro-
cedure since a week ago yester-
day.
That was a key question at the
start of today'S session when
Senator Hennings asked the
the presiding officer for a ruling
on whether he could properly
make a motion to discharge the
Judiciary Committee of the civil
rights bill which the House
passed yesterday.
The Missouri Senator con-
tended that, although the Sem
ate previously had agreed unan-
imously to give precedence to
the foreign aid bill today, the
agreement stated that the meas
ure would be lin order following
the conclusion of morning busi-
ness" Senator Hennings said he
believed that under the general
heading of morning business"
he could press for adoption of
the discharge motion.
George Makes Ruling
Senator George ruled, how
ever, that morning business"
was not the equivalent of the
parliamentary morning hour"
during which individual Sem
ators could introduce measures
and make various motions with
out unanimous consent.
Seantor Hennings then re-
quested unanimous consent that
he be permitted to present his
resolution to discharge the Ju-
dietary Committee of further
consideration of the civil rights
bill. This was promptly blocked
by an objection by Senator Rus
sell.
Senator Lehman entered the
increasingly acrimonious discus
sion by observing that under the
ruling of Senator George, lit
necessarily follows that no new
business can be introduced with
See CIVIL RIGHTS, Page A-6