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THURSDAY. MARCH 17, 1949
THE JACKSON HERALD
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ALONG THE WAY
Two wars have been fought “Be
tween the States” or the North vs.
the South One of these contests was
during the 60’s which lasted four
years and the combat was with shot
and shell, bullets and bayonets. The
result was the South was over
powered, and General Lee the Com
mander-in-Chief of the Confederate
forces surrendered at Appomattox
in Virginia.
The other war has been carried on
in the United States Senate for ten
days with speeches, motions, rulings
and votes and terminated last Sat
urday in a victory for the South.
After the war of the 60’s the South
was left in a deplorable condition.
Her finances, factories, agriculture
and schools were all in a prostrate
condition. In addition carpetbaggers
and others sought to humiliate the
South in various and sundry ways,
but the prostrate, stricken and
bleeding South had some friends in
the North, especially in New York.
Tammany Hall sympathized with
and aided in a way this section of
the re-United States. Samuel J. Til
den at that time was the leader of
the New York Democracy, and he
entertained for the South feelings
of warm friendship. At that time
he was intimately in touch with the
people of Georgia, because he oper
ated a gold mine in Lumpkin Coun
ty, whence he extracted from the
hills and mountains millions of dol
lars of the yellow metal. Later he
was the Democratic nominee for
President and won a majority of the
popular vote and also the electoral
vote, but a commission was appoint
ed to pass on the election and it de
prived Samuel J Tilden of the elec
tion. However, during his brilliant
career this great Democratic leader
was ever the friend of the South.
Other Northern Democrats enter
tained sentiments of good will for
the people of these Southern States.
There was another time in the
history of the South when good
friends showed up North of Mason
& Dixon’s line and this was when
an effort was made in Congress to
pass the iniquitious Force Bill,
which provided for Federal super
vision of certain elections. Those
who came to the rescue of the South
were the United States Senators
from the silver producing states—
Teller and Walcott of Colorado,
Stewart of Nevada and others. At
that time this bill was before the
United States Senate. Southern Sen
ators were engaged in a filibuster.
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Finally these silver Senators .joined
the Senators of the South, displaced
the Force Bill on the calender with
a silver bill and thus saved the
South from having forced upon it a
vicious and humiliating law.
This year 1949, there has been
before the Senate for several days
a proposition to change the rules of
the Senate so as to prevent filibus
tering. Southern Senators had been
speaking against the change when
the leader of the Democrats in the
Senate, Senator Lucas of Illinois,
made the point that two-thirds of
the Senate could stop a filibuster on
any motion. Vice-President Barkley
sustained his point, which reversed
the rulings of his predecessors who
had presided over the Senate when
the question came before the body.
The last presiding officer of the Sen
ate who ruled just exactly opposite
to that of Barkley was A. H. Van
denberg of Michigan. When Senator
Barkley ruled on this point Senator
Russell of Georgia moved to appeal
from the decision of the chair. Sen
ator Lucas moved to table the mo
tion of Senator Russell. The motion
to table is not debatable and this
motion cut off all speeches. The vote
was taken and 41 votes were cast to
table and 46 against the motion and
the motion to table was lost. The
vote to reverse Vice President Bark
ley was 46 ayes and 41 nays and his
ruling was not sustained, which
means Senators can keep on fili
bustering.
Here is the situation about the
Southern Senators’ fight against the
Civil Rights bills. The South
has voted solidly Democratic since
the “War Between the States,” ex
cept four Southern States in 1928
refused to vote for A1 Smith for
President and three of these States
cast their vote against Truman for
President in 1948, yet a Democratic
President is the leader in the effort
to enact laws distasteful to this great
Democratic stronghold. Here is an
other peculiar thing about the fight
over this great question that has
been before the Senate, and that is
23 Republicans join 23 Democrats
in defeating this proposed legisla
tion by President Truman.
The two Senators who were most
active in the fight against the ruling
of Vice President Barkley were
Richard B. Russell (Democrat) of
Georgia, and Arthur H. Vandenberg
(Republican) of Michigan. The
South lined up almost solidly with
Senator Russell but Vandenberg
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and twenty-two other Republicans
joined with Southern Senators and
made victory sure for the South.
Senator Russell has exhibited splen
did ability as a debater and his
handling of the parliamentary situ
ation could not have been surpassed
by anyone. Also he showed tact and
wise leadership in maintaining prac
tically a solid front by Southern
Senators. In other words, he held
his forces together.
President Truman who is vaca
tioning in Key West, ttorida, made
no comment about the action of the
Senate in refusing to follow his lead.
Probably the ablest speech made
by any Senator on the question be
fore the Senate was that of the vet
eran Senator Walter F. George of
Georgia. Not in the United States
Senate is there an abler lawyer, or
a more profound student of the
Constitution of the United States
and the rules of the Senate than
Georgia’s Senior Senator. When he
stated that “If you adopt straight
out majority rule in Congress it will
be easily possible to change the
form and substance of your govern- j
ment in ten years.” The issue he de-'
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dared, is “whether you have rules
and insist upon a fair interpretation
of them. Rules should not be accom
modated and changed to every
shifted prejudice,” the Senator de
clared.
Since his surprising and over
whelming election last November,
President Truman has been some
what intoxicated with his great vic
tory. Probably he felt that he had
received a positive mandate from
the people to do certain things and
that when he called on Congress to
pass laws to carry out these instruct
ions that it is the duty of the law
making body of our country to ren
der the service that he calls on them
to perform. However, Congress
seems to be impressed with that
provision of the Constitution which
provides that the President may rec
ommend, but it is only in the power
of Congress to pass laws. The action
of the Senate may have a sobering
effect on the Chief Executive.
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