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    "ocrText": "3\naccept the will of my fellow citizens when\nments of the Americans of their time\nthey have deliberated earnestly and\nThey vent too far too fast, and our\nState has never forgotten that period\nThird. The bill repeals a bayonet-\nsincerely.\nBasic rights were ignored. Punitivo\nProgress for Our People\ntype Reconstruction statute, whose very\nOPEN THE CLOSED MINDS\nmeasures were voted. Since that time,\nexistence inflames passions and makes it\nNever before has : b.n baer so\nmen of their thinking have never again\nREMARILS\nmore difficult to consider these problems\nthorounlity in this fine out of\noccupied the seats of Senators from\nor\ndispassionately.\nthat debate his come something even\nTexas.\nHON. LYNDON B. JOHNSON\nFourth. The bill insures the authority\nmore important than legislation.\nCIGNITY AND UNITY\nof the Federal courts to aid individuals\nThis has been a debate which has\nWe do not have to reconstruct Re-\nor TEXAS\nsecking remedial protections for their\nopened et sed minds throughout the\nconstruction in order to have a bill. We\nIN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES\ncivil rights.\ncountry. This has been a debate which\ndo not have to reopen the wounds.\nFifth. The bill\nizes the rist of\nWednesday, August 7, 1957\nhas made peeple everywhere reexamine\nNeither do we have to dispense with\nthe full powers of\n-deral courts to\nhard and fast positions.\nbasic rights-such as the jury trial-in\nMr. JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Presi-\nsecure the nost importent of all rights-\nFor the first time in my memory, this\norder to have effective legislation.\ndent, in 10 minutes the Senate will have\nthe right to vote.\nissue has been lifted from the field of\nUnder this measure, a good judge can\nspent a total of 25 days discussing the\nSixth. The bill guarantces to defend-\nportisan politics. It has been considered\nsecure compliance for his orders. And\ncivil-rights bill. We will have used 121\nants in criminal contempt proceedings\nin terms of human beings and the effect\nit is compliance-not vengeance-that\nhours and 31 minutes.\nin Federal courts the basic right of trial\nof our laws upon them.\nthe Senate seeks.\nIn all the history of the Senate, I doubt\nby jury.\nAnd we shail never get rid of a run-\nIt may be that experience will demon-\nwhether there has ever been a debate\nOn this point, let US be absclutels clear,\nning sore in the body politic until we\nstrate the need for change in this meas-\nwhich has been conducted on a higher\nand let the record be clear.\nstart thinking in those terms.\nure. That is one of the reasons why we\nlevel. Senators have spoken to the\nNo Federal judge ill be required to\nTwo months ago, I had grave misgiv-\nare voting to create a commission.\npoint. Senators have debated the issues.\na jury to enfors complinice with\nings about the value of the commission\nDut the possible necessity for change\nSenators have stuck to the facts. For\nhis orders. He cas resort to fines, to\nsection. It nemed to me that a com-\nis no bar to action. The Senate will not\nthis, all my colleagues are entitled to\nimpriconment, and to conpensatory\nin a heated political\ndamages to compet to his\ndo nothing but\ndisappear after the vote tonight. We\ngreat credit.\nshall be present throughout the years to\nNATIONAL LEGISLATION\norders.\ninflame passions.\ncome.\nThe one thing a Vedere1 could\nBut I believe the Senate has set a tone\nThere will be some, of course, who will\nI shall vote for the bill. It is effec-\nnot do without a jury is to trass man\nwithin which the commission can be a\ntive legislation. It is enforceable leg-\nseek to play politics. Eut I hope there\na criminal in the cyes of al' his fellow\nuseful instrument. It can gather facts\nare none such in the Senate. There is\nislation. It seeks to advance the rights\ncitizens.\ninstead of charges; it can sift cut the\nof all Americans. It is national rather\nno compelling need for a campaign issue.\nSeventh, and finally, the bill secures\ntruth from the fancies; and it can return\nBut there is a compelling need for a\nthan sectional.\nwithout discrimination the right of all\nwith recommendations which will be of\nsolution that will enable all American\nIn the past few days there has been\ncitizens, of all races, all cclors, and all\nassistance to reaconable men.\nconsiderable discussion about the things\npeople to live in dignity and in unity.\ncreeds, to serve on Federal juries.\nwhich the bill does not do. The minority\nPOUTICS es PROGRESS\nThis bill is the greatest step toward that\nleader has just made some reference to\nAN ADVANCE\nThere are, et course, people who are\nobjective that has ever been made.\nMr. President, I have served in Con-\nTo\nit now would be a trogedy\nthem. I ain aware of the fact that the\nstill more d in securing \"otes\nthan in securi right to vote. There\nthe\n11 mant our consciences for\nbill does not pretend to solve all the\ngress for more than 20 years. A long line\nproblems of human relations.\nof Texas Senators have preceded me,\nare, of cours ple who are still nore\nyo:\nBut I cannot follow the logic of those\nclear back to 1371, when my State once\ninterested in the issue than in a solation\nA & AND JUST SENATE\nwho say that because we cannot solve\nagain received representation in the\nh he issue.\nI am aware of the implications of my\nall the problems, we should not try to\nSenate.\nSus T of whatever experi-\nvote. It will be treated cynically in\nsolve any of them. That is a curious\nThe last reconstruction statute was\nence I case there is no :\nsome quarters, and it will be misunder-\nprocess of thought, indeed.\npassed in 1875. Since that date, this is-\nical capital in tias issue. Nothing last-\nstcod in others. No Texas Scnator has\nsue has been agitated and has divided\nA STRONG BILL\ning, nothing enduring, has ever men\ncast a vote to consider a civil-rights bill\nour Nation time and time again. Dur-\nborn from hatred and prejudice-exce\nor a vote for a civil-rights bill since 1375.\nI prefer, instead, to consider what the\ning the 32 years since reconstruction,\nmore hatred and more prejudice.\nEut the Senate has dealt fairly and\nbill does, and then to make up my mind\npractically any one of the points I have\nPolitical ambition which feeds off\njustly with this measure. This is legis-\nas to its value on that basis. In this con-\nenumerated would have been regarded\nhatred of the North or hatred of the\nlation which I believe will be good for\ncluding hour, let us look at what the\nas a history-making advance. The Sen-\nSouth is doomed to frustration.\nevery State of the Union-and so far as\nbill does.\nate, without regard to political division,\nThere have been times when feelings\nI am cencerned, Temos has been a part\nFirst. The bill creates a Civil Rights\nis going to be in a position to approve\nran high. There was a time when the\nof the Union since Appomattox.\nCommission with subpena power. This\nseven of them, I hope, tonight.\ndivisions within this country exploded\nI could not have voted for the bill\nalone would justify terming the bill a\nI can understand the disappointment\ninto bloodshed.\nwhich came to the Senate, and I so told\nconstructive step, and it is more than\nof those who are not receiving all they\nbelieve they should out of this bill. I\nWhen Texas was readmitted into the\nthe Senate. But the bill now before the\nproponents of civil rights asked the ma-\ncan understand but not sympathize with\nUnion on March 30, 1870, two Senators\nSenate seeks to solve the problems of\njority leader to have passed last year.\ntook the seats once occupied by Rusk\n1957-not to reopen the wounds of 1865.\nSecond. The bill creates the office of\ntheir position.\nand Sam Houston. The judgments of\nThis is the result of honest and candid\na new Assistant Attorncy General who\nMany times in my life, I have failed to\nthose new Senators were not the judg-\ndebate in the greatest deliberative body\ncan bring the full prestige of his office\nsecure all that I considered proper and\njust and due. But I have learned to\n435793-63471\ninto the field of civil rights.\n435793-63471\n(2)"
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