Rep. Francis E. Walter, co-author of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, said yesterday that he was disappointed by President Eisenhower’s State of the Union message because the President “makes the broad, sweeping charge that the Act is discriminatory and contains injustices without citing one single instance to back it up.” In this respect, Rep. Walter said, the President “is entirely in error or has been misinformed.”
Senate Judiciary Chairman William Langer today announced the appointment of Sen. Arthur Watkins as chairman of the Senate Immigration Subcommittee. The Subcommittee will also include Senators R.C. Hendrickson, Everett Dirksen, Arthur Herman Welker, John M. Butler, Pat McCarran, James O. Eastland, Harley M. Kilgore, and Estes Kefauver.
Sen. Langer named himself to be chairman of a special subcommittee to investigate the problem of refugees and escapees. This subcommittee includes Senators Watkins, Hendrickson, Kilgore, and Johnston. Sen. Hendrickson was named chairman of the Civil Rights Subcommittee. Also on this body are Senators Dirksen, Welker, Kefauver and Hennings.
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