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scurTy around to get more Re
publicans to sign because of the
possible repercussions in their own
districts
The leading Negro publishers Of
the nation were In town for
their mid-winter meeting when the
list was released with the numer-
ical composition and party affil-
iation Of the list Of those who
signed, did not miss them.
Humphrey Dropped BOmbshen
The big issue had been dropped
into the pot however by the Hum
phrey-Clark voting registrars bin.
President Eisenhower's remarks
which discounted 1t as possibly
unconstitutional were not wasted
on the Negro publishers who sent
q committee to visit Attorney
General william Rogers to urge
firmer administration support Of
rights legislation Jan. %.
Comprehensive Administrators
Measure Announced
Tuesday, Jan. 20, the Admins
tration answer to the Humphrey
Clark proposals appeared when
Attorney-General Rogers announc-
ed a comprehensive scheme to OBJ
tain legislation whereby the fed
eral court could appoint referees
who would see that qualified Ne
groes who had been denied the
right to vote received an opportrm-
ity to cast their ballots.
Rogers told a press conference
that the proposal the Eisenhower
administration has decided to make
would be more effective" than
the proposed legislation (Hum-
phrey-Ciark bin) to set up federal
voting registrars.
The administration plan in brief
would use the federal court system
for issuing voting certificates TO
Negroes IN areas where there was
proven discrimination.
II would permit contempt Of
court action to be used against
local election officers who refused
to allow Negroes to vote.
Other Developments included a
challenge to Vice-President Nixon
by California Representative James
Roosevelt to use his influence with
his supporters in the House TO OBJ
tain COP signatures for the dis
charge petition.
Roosevelt gibed:
eff Richard Nixon, the RepubH-
can hand-picked presidential can
didate, were at all sincere In his
claim Of interest in civil rights
legislation, he would certainly ask
his Republican hackers in the house
to sign the petition" Roosevelt
said in a statement.
Now is the time for the Nixon
Republicans to either sign up-or
shut up" he said. They should
either provide their one-third of
the necessary signatures or admit
that the reactionary coalition in
the house, led by Nixon supporters,
Is willing to sacrifice human rights
to partisan politics"
Only four Of Minnesota's Con-
gressional delegation have signed
the petition. Three are Democrats
and one a Republican.
The lone Republican Is Congress-
man Walter Judd of the Minneapo-
lis Fifth district. Others who sign
ed and among the first was Con-
gresham Roy Wier of the Third
District, Congressman Joseph
Karth Of St Paul and the Fourth
District and Congressman John
A. Blatnik Of the Eighth District.
OF those who have not signed
include four Republicans and one
Democrat They are Albert Quie,
Second Dist. (Rep.), Fred Mar
shall, Sixth Dist. (Dem.), H. Carl
Andersen, Seventh Dist. (Rep.)
and odin Langen, CRep).
Minneapolis TRIBUNE Wash
ington bureau writer Charles
Bailey reported Nelson, Langen