End to Filibuster in Sight; Senate Shortens Sessions
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Senate leaders, indicating confidence that they will be able to choke off the southern Civil Rights filibuster, decided today to cut back floor sessions in order to tackle a growing backlog of other legislation.
Senate Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey announced that the Senate would meet at noon (EDT) from now until the Memorial Holiday recess to give committees an extra two hours to work each morning.
This underscored the new feeling on the part of Humphrey, floor manager of the Civil Rights bill, and other supporters that they may be within reach of the necessary two-thirds vote to invoke cloture—the senate gag rule on debate.
UNTIL THIS WEEK, the Senate had been meeting at 10 a.m. each day. This left little time for committee meetings because Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore., has refused to go along with the required unanimous consent to allow such meetings while floor sessions are going on.
The Civil Rights leaders in the Senate now believe they can halt the debate and enact a bill before the Republican National Convention opens July 13.
Humphrey said in announcing continuation of the noon meeting time that committee chairmen should take advantage of the extra time next week to "proceed with urgent business."
They do not believe that the Presidential Primary showings made by Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace in Maryland and other states can halt or greatly alter the measure.
SENATE LEADERS declined to pinpoint just how many votes they
now have for cloture—the gag rule under which each member would be limited to one hour of debate on the measure and all its amendments.
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But there is mounting evidence that they can now see a combination of additional votes for cloture and absenteeism—if it is needed—to produce the required two-thirds majority required to gag debate.
GOP leader Eworett M. Dirksen, Ill., perhaps gave the tipped when he said after yesterday's Republican conference on the controversial employment section of the bill: "I am not deeply concerned about cloture."
With Sen, Clair Engle, D-Calif, likely to be absent because of illness, a maximum of 66 votes will be needed if all other senators are on hand when the cloture vote is taken.
REPUBLICAN SENATORS planned to resume their Civil Rights review tomorrow at what Dirksen advertised as a "refining" session.
Senate leaders hoped to offer next week a bipartisan package of amendments to the House-passed bill.
The present likelihood is that the controversial jury trial amendment will be incorporated into the bi-partisan package. A substitute jury trial amendment by Dirkksen and Democratic leader Mike Mansfield, Mont., has been pending for weeks, along with southern amendments on the issue.
The Dirksen-Mansfield substitute would require a jury trial in any criminal contempt case under the Civil Rights Bill which involved a penalty of over 30 days in jail or $300 fine.
TO AVOID TROUBLE on the closure vote, the leaders may have to incorporate in the package something
a little more attractive to those concerned about the jury trial protection.
Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, D-Conn., told the Senate yesterday that Wallace's strong showing in the Maryland primary proved that "a lot of Americans in the North as well as in the South" did not believe in Civil Rights for Negroes.
After other Senators had quarreled and differed over the meaning of Wallace's heavy vote, Ribicoff drew praise from a member of his colleagues with some blunt, solemn comments on civil rights, certain "illusions" and the country's future.
He said Wallace had scored a significant victory by appealing to the "barest instincts" of the voters in Maryland—where he won 43 per cent of the Democratic vote—as well as of the people in Wisconsin and Indiana.
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