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*. > - 0-19 (Rev, 7-16-58) ‘ The Washington Mérry-Go-Roni ourage ia es Co ie rete OP pee eg In Vote 6. * ; UNFORGETTABLE ‘scenes : Were stamped on the minds} “of Senators as the last weary] ‘ days of the 85th Congress : dragged to a "close. Most . poignant of all , Was the 4140°'% , Vote to table ag _ the resolution & , curtailing the. oOwers of the: Supreme _Court. As the “vole was an- o nounced John .'y cClellan of earson .Atkansas trem- P : ‘bled. Perspiration stood out § on his forehead. He was white B with anger... Twenty years before, another Arkansas Sen-|B ator had stood on the Sengte'# ‘power of the Supreme Court aq leader, Joe Robinson of Ar- |i * Kansas was loyal to his chief _ in the White House, and when ‘ President Roosevelt . intro- duced his court-packing bill, . Robinson fought for it.. .His . heart, however, was never in < his argument. His heart. was ; with his southern friends, Sen- ; ator “Jimmy” Byrnes of South§ Carolina, Harry Byrd of Vir- ; ginia, Walter George and Dick ‘Russell of Georgia, .- - ; So Robinson, overworked _and heartsick, died during the ‘court battle. His heart failed ‘him . - Last week Joh: Me- ‘Clellan, "tired from the long Hoffa hearings, looked as if he might collapse as the one- vote margin to prapanuethe in dspenuerte of the court was Fas 5 'C SEP 9° 1958 e ‘on Court on _ By Drew Pore A 2he i “nullification” os “¢ ginia looked calm. Twenty| Mfcyears before he had battled r against Roosevelt to keep the floor also arguing that the ime ‘ must be curbed. As majority a , oa ak |Rrecping testy ‘Shown fncering eid. Oe ily they reused this a: iNorth-South Democratic bat, itle, oné which would play up _the split inside the Democratic ‘Party .. . Unkindest vote of all came from Sen. Kuchel of California, Republican. He threw’ in, his lot with thi enemies of Chief Justice War- ren, though it was Warren, ‘when Governor of California, lwho appointed Kuchel to the Senate . Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, the only lady, lined up against the court which had supported her in various, decisions on McCar.- thyism ; : . Gore of Tennessee]: took the easy course; his col- league. Kefauver the hard course. Kefauver’s vote for the court was one of only three from the South. Gore had just]: been assured of reelection.|. Kefauver comes up for reelec-|§ tion in 1960. His vote took real courage. So did the votes of Johnson and Yarborough, of]: Texas, — What ‘is courage? The word “courage” was, tossed’ arohnd the Senate floor like a basket- ball. Almost every Senator was complimenting almost every other Senator on his great courage. Most of them had shown no great courage. It_ takes no -courage for a No thern Senator representing egrd bloc of big city voters to Tine up for civil rights or for the Supreme Court. In con- > one announcd:,.. . Senator Strom Theenrond= of " SoutheCacolipa was not so emotional. But be- hind’ his flashing eyes and stern features you could s the same emotions that must have welled up in another fam-), ous South Carolinian, John C.& Calhoun, as he championed, . Byrd of Vir-| ‘Supreme Court independent. :Three years before he had joined with all of Virginia in payitig tribute te John Mar- shall, who as Chief Justice had established, in his fight with Jefferson, the independence of the Supreme Court. . . Grandson of a slave holder, ‘Sen. Tom Hennings of Mls- -souri, whose great grandfather “held more slaves than any other plantation owner in Georgia and whose grand- father was an officer in the Confederate Army, led - the Senate argument for the court. “In. these late anys of the session,” he said, “the Senate}, may be doing something which| |trast, Kefauver - Yarborough- will plague not only the Sen-). |Johnson votes did take cou: ate, but the people of the coun.| | ,7#8e- Johnsen even persuaded try, other Senates and other ‘George Smathers of Florida, Cohgresses for years to come,”|.| Who was against the court, to . Sen. John Carroll of Colo-| | pair with Mike Monroney_ of irado supported Hennings. . Oklahoma who, though for , Silent Rep 4 court, was absent. This gave bat, iefly between Dem. ‘| the one-vote margin needed | ose fepublicans voted) for the court... Furthermore, Johnsqn had persuaded Sens. Bob Kerr of Oklahoma and ‘Allen Frear pf Delaware, both Democrats who would have| vated against the court, to re-F main.in the cloakroom and not vote. As the vote was taken, ‘Democratic Whip Mansfield of |! x ontan ; announced: enator from L 2. 228 WS Fs: 5 - It '(Frear), the Senator from Flor-|' da (Holland), and the Sena- — an DED ors from Oklahoma*(Kert and NOT 8 1958 Mora from ( are ‘absent on offi- 184 SEP ial business.” This was not exactly true.. Holland was yorida campaigning frantica for his renomination, whit ery and Frear were in’ ele..Room __ Holloman Gandy —__.__ Wash. Post and LA Times Herald Wash, News Wash. Star N. Y. Herald —___ Tribune N.Y. Journal-___ American N.Y. N, Y, N.Y. Mirror Daily News ___ Times Daily Worker The Worker New Leader Date AUG 27 1958