COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

JAMES 0. EASTLAND, Mississippi, Chairman OLIN D. JOHNSTON, South Carolina EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN, Illinois JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas

ROMAN L, HRUSKA, Nebraska SAM J, ERVIN, JR., North Carolina

HIRAM L. FONG, Hawaii THOMAS J. DODD, Connecticut

HUGH SCOTT, Pennsylvania
PHILIP A. HART, Michigan

JACOB K, JAVITS, New York
EDWARD V. LONG, Missouri
EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts
BIRCH BAYH, Indiana
QUENTIN N. BURDICK, North Dakota
JOSEPH D. TYDINGS, Maryland

CONTENTS

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Statement of -

March 23, 24, 25, 1965:

Hon. Nicholas de B. Katzenbach, Attorney General of the United Page

States..

March 29, 1965:

Charles J. Bloch, attorney at law, Macon, Ga---------

March 30, 1965:

Judge Leander H. Perez, Plaquemines Parish, La---------

305

March 31, 1965:

A. Ross Eckler, Acting Director, Bureau of the Census.----

587

John W. Macy, Jr., Chairman, Civil Service Commission.----- 605

Paul Rogers, Jr., assistant attorney general of the State of

Georgia...

615

April 1, 1965:

Robert Y. Button, attorney general of the State of Virginia.- 639, 696

Frederick T. Gray, former attorney general of the State of Vir-

ginia...

James J. Kilpatrick, editor, Richmond News-Leader, Richmond,

Va., and vice chairman, Virginia Commission on Constitutional

Government.---

629

Hon. John J. Sparkman, a U.S. Senator from the State of Ala-

bama..--

Thomas J. Watkins, attorney at law, Jackson, Miss.----

April 2, 1965:

T. Wade Bruton, attorney general of the State of North Caro-

lina...-...---------------------------------------------

775

Frank Mizell, attorney at law, representing the registrars of the

State of Alabama, accompanied by Eli Howell, attorney, Mont-

gomery, Ala.---

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April 5, 1965:

Hon. John Stennis, a U.S. Senator from the State of Mississippi.

- Hon. Strom Thurmond, a U.S. Senator from the State of South

Carolina...

Hon. John J. Williams, a U.S. Senator from the State of Dela-

ware..-...----

799

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Statements submitted by-

Hon. Harry F. Byrd, a U.S. Senator from the State of Virginia.--. 977

Hon. William A. Egan, Governor, State of Alaska...

988

Hon. Hiram L. Fong, á U.S. Senator from the State of Hawaii.----- 189

Albert P. Gallinghouse, registrar of voters, parish of Orleans, La. --- 1000

W. B. Hicks, Jr., executive secretary, Liberty Lobby, Washington,

991

Hon. Lister Hill, a U.S. Senator from the State of Alabama ----- 981

Hon. Richard J. Hughes, Governor, State of New Jersey --------

Hon. Edward V. Long, a U.S. Senator from the State of Missouri.--

Hon. George McGovern, a U.S. Senator from the State of South

Dakota...cc

984

Walter P. Reuther, president, United Auto Workers.

Hon. A. Willis Robertson, a U.S. Senator from the State of Virginia .. 985

Hon. Hugh Scott, a U.S. Senator from the State of Pennsylvania---

Thomas A. Skornia, chairman, Marin, Calif., Democratic Assembly-- 1002

Irby Turner, Jr., attorney at law, Belzoni, Miss., and member of the

the Mississippi State Legislature.--

990

Roy Wilkins, National Association for the Advancement of Colored

People-----

1004

Sidney Zagri, legislative counsel, International Brotherhood of

Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America ----- 996

Pai

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EXHIBITS
Copy of S. 1564.------
Estimates on voting as of November 1, 1964, as prepared by the Bureau of

the Census, and submitted by Attorney General Katzenbach.--

Prosecutions brought by the Justice Department listed by States under 18

U.S.C. 241, 242.

Voter qualifications of different States at the time the 15th amendment was

submitted.-

Editorial, “An Immoral Law,” from the Wall Street Journal, dated March

22, 1965.--------

Editorial, “A Question of Perversion,” from the Wall Street Journal, dated

March 24, 1965.---

Civil service laws that will apply to examiners appointed under section 4(a)

of the Voting Rights Act of 1965-----

Letter dated April 2, 1965, addressed to Hon. James 0. Eastland from

Attorney General Katzenbach, re commentary on S. 1517--

Lassiter v. Northampton County Board of Elections, 360 U.S. 45.-

Williams v. Mississippi, 170 U.S. 213. ----

Guinn and Beal v. United States, 238 U.S. 347.-

Article, "LBJ's Voting Bill Strafed by Lake".

William Alston, et al. v. L. M. Butts, et al. (elections registration, North

Carolina)-------------

Supplemental memorandum prepared by Charles J. Bloch with respect to

section 9 of S. 1564.----

The following were submitted for the record by Judge Leander Perez:

(1) US v. Mary Ethel Fox, Registrar of Voters, Plaquemines Parish,

Louisiana.-----

(2) Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.---

(3) "Is the NAACP Subversive?” as prepared by the Patrick Henry

Group, Richmond, Va------

(4) “Activities in the Southern States," speech by Senator Eastland

from the Congressional Record dated May 25, 1961..

(5-A) “Highlander Folk School,” prepared by Georgia Commission

on Education ---

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(5–B) “Baptist Bible Tribune,” dated January 31, 1964 ----

15-C) “Common Sense,” dated November 1, 1960.----

(6) "Whither Solid South?” a study in politics and race relations, by

Charles Wallace Collins.--

(7) Excerpts, Herndon v. Lowry, 301 U.S. 242...

17-A) Pages 95-107 from the booklet “The Joint Legislative Com-

mittee on Un-American Activities,” prepared by the State of

Louisiana---

(8) Booklet entitled "American Negro Problems”.-

The following were submitted for the record by Hon. Sam J. Ervin, Jr.:

(1) Letter dated March 29, 1965, from Hon. John Sparkman.--

(2) Editorial, “A Speech and a Bill,” from the Charlotte News dated

March' 16, 1965....

(3) Article, “Voting Bill ‘Piles Wrong on Wrong',” by James J. Kil-

patrick printed in the Evening Star of March 25, 1965...

(4) “The Voting Bill,” an editorial in the Evening Star of March 19,

1965.

(5) “Question Lingers on Voting Bill” by Richard Wilson, printed in

the Evening Star of March 24, 1965.-

(6) "Vote Test Here Simple, and Same for Everyone," an article by

Bill Wright printed in the Fayetteville Observer of March 23,

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(6-A) Military personnel, dependents, and civilians working on mili-

tary installations in four North Carolina counties..

(7) Editorial, “Illogical Is the Word," from the Evening Star dated

March 26, 1965.-----

(8) Letter dated March 26, 1965, addressed to Hon. Sam J. Ervin,

Jr., from William Joslin, chairman, State board of elections,

Raleigh, N.C. ---

(9) Editorial, ""Special Laws and Blanket Indictments," from the

Greensboro Daily News, dated March 23, 1965.-

(10) Article, “Vote Bill Won't End Protests,” from the Evening

Star.-----