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Dw : i Hédrings on Marshatt Slated to End Monday | | bw DANA BULLEN “would make every effort” to | Star Staff Writer read the Constitution in its |_ Sen, James 0, Eastland, D-\entirety and apply the law to the {Miss., plans to wind up Senate|facts in individual cases “with- | Judiciary, Cogimittee hearings|out any personal predilection.” on Thu arshall’s appoint-} Under questioning by East- ment Court with|Iand, Marshall for 23 years a final session next Monday. Although he will be in Missis- sippi the remainder of this week, Eastland, the . Judiciary Committee chairman, made it clear that he does not mean for the confirmation hearings to bog down. . Eastland said that he had ‘been prepared to conclude the confirmation hearings yesterday, but that he. scheduled another .|Marshall. The 59%year-old U.S. solicitor general, the first Negro ever nominated for a seat on the nation’s highest court, had met with the committee four times during the last week. session after a senator asked for| told Eastland that he “positively | a further chance to question b counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, denied that he had ever been “prejudiced against white people.” t Denying that’ the Supreme ourt is. “an instrument of social change,” Marshall said that he would ‘afford fair treatment to Southerners or anyone else ag a\ justice. On another point, Marshall did not know” that a book cited Y Marshall in an opinion while a judge of the Second U.S. Court of Appeals in New York had been written by an American Communist leader. The only witness to testify | besides Marshall at the hearings : Althopgh he declined to dis-|W@S 2 spokesman for the con-; cuss current issues growing out|Servative Liberty Lobby, who, of the Supreme Court’s Miranda: accused the solicitor-general of | decision tightening rules on|“@ Tecord of duplicity and confessions, Marshall supported} @tTogance” during his profes- police lineups for identification |Sional life. of suspects by witnesses. Michael D. Jaffe, the group’s | He also has said that nothing| general counsel, maintained that ithe Supreme Court bas said}Marshall was disqualified for a ‘prevents @ man from walking position on the nation’s highest linto a police precinct and say-|court by prior experience as a ling, ‘I committed the following|“Pleader for a narrow special crimes.” Although Eastland |interest group. ldeclined to identify the commit-| So far nine of the Judiciary!) itee member who asked for alCommittee’s 16 members have further session of the hearings,|announced support for Mar- ‘Sen. John L. McClellan, D-Ark.,|shall’s appointment and it bee reporters that he had/appeared that the Judiciary | i suggested such a forther ses-|Committee and whole Senate: ‘Sion. : will support the nomination. i At yesterday’s hearing, Mar-| The committee could forward, | ‘Shall contended firmly that no/the nomination’ to the floor [judicial officer should be con-|quickly after next Monday’s, ‘trolled by personal views in|final hearing session. There has reaching decisions. “My own/been no sign so far that any type sense of right and wrong is the|of filibuster will be attempted} Constitution itself,’ he said. within the committee to delay NOT RECORDED 128 JUL 24 1967 ee Oe Te Asia justice, Marshall said, he | action. == 62—Shbbha-— fA - Callahan Cons ‘f ihe Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy The Washington Past Times Heraid The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) Fp a> The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post The New York Times World Journal Tribune (New York) The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People’s Word, c 3 7 1967 Date a y)