Vote bans federal busing
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House and Senate voted Thursday to ban federally ordered busing despite liberal protests that the South was putting the country "on the road back to segregation."
The votes came on separate bills, and on differently worded proposals. But both barred the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) from requiring busing to integrate schools.
The House, adopting amendments to a new $19.3 billion HEW and Labor Department appropriations bill also voted to legalize "freedom of choice" school assignment plans.
Neither the Senate nor House amendments, even if signed into law, would stop federal courts from requiring busing.
The Supreme Court has ruled that busing is necessary in some Southern districts to overcome the effects of unconstitutional school segregation.
But both were designed to stop HEW from forcing any busing as part of the desegregation plans it requires before granting federal school aid funds.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., said the Senate amendment would tell HEW, "If it's all black it stays all black, and if it's all white it stays all white."
The Senate amendment was approved by voice vote, after an even tougher antibusing amendment was defeated, 49 to 36. The Senate also killed, 58 to 24, a Southern amendment guaranteeing every child the right to attend the school nearest his home.
On Wednesday, the Senate adopted a Southern sponsored amendment requiring the same
school desegregation rules for both North and South.
Support by Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, D-Conn., was largely credited for the victory.
Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss., hailed that vote as "a landmark," the South's first civil rights victory since 1954 and the start of a "change in direction."
Thursday, Sen. John O. Pastore, D-R.I., like Ribicoff a longtime civil rights champion, joined with Sen. Sam J. Ervin, D-N.C., in sponsoring the antibusing amendment.
Federal law already prohibits federally ordered busing "to overcome racial imbalance," but Ervin complained that "we have passed three times statutes about racial imbalance and HEW pays no attention to them."
At Pastore's suggestion, Ervin added the words, "Or alter racial composition" of any public school. It passed by voice vote, with Javits protesting the two days of Southern victories were putting the nation "on the road back to segregation."
The Senate amendments were adopted to a four year, $35 billion school aid bill. They face a House-Senate conference committee. The House amendments, worded differently and attachd to different legislation, face Senate action.
The House antibusing provision was a "freedom of choice" rider and didn't even mention race. It forbade the government from ordering any child to ride a bus to school against his parents' wishes.
The House action came on a nonrecorded 145-122 vote to reject an effort to nullify the busing and freedom of choice language contained in a new $19.3 million appropriation bill for the Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare.
Rep. Jeffery Cohalan, D-Calif,
sought to nullify the busing and
freedom of choice language by
inserting a clause that "except
as required by the constitution."
which would have made the provisions inoperable.
Inserted in the bill by Rep. Jamie L. Whitten, two provisions specify that no money in the bill could be used to force school busing and that no federal funds could be withheld to force a school district to accept a desegregation plan.
Then the House affirmed on a voice vote another provision by Rep. Charles R. Jonas, R-N.C., that would ban the government from drafting any plans that would prevent a student from attending the school of his choice. This would restore the "freedom of choice" plans once used in the South but now outlawed by the courts.
The Senate, however, defeated 49 to 36 an amendment to an aid-to-education bill to prohibit federal courts and agencies from requiring busing of students "to alter the racial composition of the student body at any public school."
Then it tabled—in effect killed—an amendment guaranteeing every child the right to attend the school nearest home. That vote was 58 to 24.
The House action came as it passed 315 to 81 and sent to the
Senate, the big education and welfare money bill that is still $324 million above President Nixon's request, thus inviting a second veto.
Members rejected 189 to 205 a Republican move for a 2.5 per cent cut in the bill's total despite a warning from GOP leader Gerald Ford that rejection virtually assures another veto.
An administration spokesman warned earlier that removal of the authority would invite another veto just as occurred to the original $19.7 billion measure last month because it provided $1.3 billion more for HEW than Nixon had requested.
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TOPEKA (UPI)—A KU law professor who took part Tuesday in a student protest against Chicago Judge Julius Hoffman, was singled out for criticism Thursday by State Sen. Reynolds Shultz, R-Lawrence.
Shultz, a consistent critic of student protesters at the University, urged the Kansas Bar Association to disbar professor Lawrence Velvel, who, he said, denounced Judge Julius Hoffman before a crowd of students in front of the KU Law School Tuesday.
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Sen. Lester Arvin, R-Rose Hill, said he thought it "is a shame that he can come to our state . . . teach our young people law . . . almost incite a riot . . . and draw more salary than our district iudges."
"If this continues, I for one am going to be forced to vote against appropriations bills for higher education," Arvin said.
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