The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1957-08-10
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SENATE PASSES CIVIL RIGHTS BILL


The Senate on Wednesday night passed the Civil
Rights Bill by a vote of II to 49,
The Bill as amended, will be sent to the House for
approval If the House approves it, this will be the first
Civil Rights to become law since Reconstruction
days 80 years ago.
Florida Senators split their votes Senator Smathers
voted for the Bill; Senator Holland against
Senator Smathers said:
IT recognize that eventually civil rights bill will
be enacted-either at this, some later session.
Because feel this is the most sensible and moder
ate proposal will get and because there great
to this problem outside the political arena, I will
vote for passage (of the billy amended
Holland said:
'eYou cannot coerce the solution of problem when
the real solution lies in the hearts and minds of
1T the human nature of Americans to resent and
resist efforts to coerce ahead of time decisions that
being made gradually in the conscences and minds of the
people of our state, both white and colored"
Naturally favored the Bill as it presented by
the administrations; the amendment has weakened it
somewhat but said in this column some weeks
it better to have half loaf, than no bread at ALL
We hope the House will approve the amended Bill
and that the President will not veto it,
There are enough rights denied Negroes; let them
have the right to vote in every state in the Union.
We publish below an editorial from the Christian
Science Monitor dealing with the Rights Bill which
think is most interesting. Read 1t carefully
Solid Gains For Civil Rights
Civl-rights legislation has reached it's hgh-water
mark far this century In opinion Senate adop
ton of the urytria amendment has enhanced rather
than cured hopes for genuine advances in federal pro-
lection of Negro suffrage Advocates who describing
the action death blow the Eisenhower program
mistaken opponents who have been picturing that
program resurrecting Reconstruction.
Here as few reasons for our Judgement Under the
bill amended the federal government will possess new
to intervene through the injuncve process with
out jury tials where contempt proceedings intended
only to prevent rather than to punish infringement OF
voting rights
Any such action will be spotlighted with publicity
Where civil contempt does not succeed in hating abuses
and judges resort to criminal contempt with jury trial.
juries themselves will be trial before the nation to
prove that Negroes will be treated fairly.
BY an amendment added to the jury-trial provision
Negroes will be eligible to federal juries
where barred in state courts.
Two other sections of the bill (providng for COM
mission to investigate civ-rghts problems and for
special cvrghts division in the Department of Jusce)
supplement- the section amended by the Senate.
States Fighters will doubtless fight these provisions
and the section to which they attached the jury
amendment-but so many concessions have now been
made to them that they unlikely to find much support
outside the Deep South Even libuster wouldn't
now.
The House of Representatives may reasonably be ex
pected to accept the Senates half loaf rather than insist
cvirghts bread That its choice for this year