The Senate agreed today to vote tomorrow on the Humphrey-Lehman substitute immigration bill which liberals hope will be adopted to replace the controversial McCarran Omnibus Bill. The McCarran Bill has been widely opposed as “racist” and “undemocratic.”
A move to return the McCarran Bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee for further study was defeated yesterday by a vote of 44 to 28. Liberals, however, have introduced 189 amendments to the McCarran Bill. Sen. McCarran has charged that “subversive organizations” are spurring on the fight against his bill and are seeking to return it to committee.
Although defeated by yesterday’s vote, a number of liberals said today that they believe they showed enough strength to uphold an expected Presidential veto should the bill pass. Except for a few exceptions, the McCarran Bill supporters have given the “silent treatment” to Senators Lehman, Humphrey, Douglas, and others who have spent several days enumerating objectionable provisions in the McCarran Bill. Liberals have found that they were mostly talking only to each other and to the empty chairs of the Senators supporting the McCarran measure.
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