Southern senators carried the anti-FEPC filibuster into its seventh day, as proponents of the measure announced that they will file a petition for cloture on Monday, to shut off further debate. The cloture motion, in accordance with Senate rules, will come up for a vote on Wednesday, two days after being filed. It was not clear today whether the pro-FEPC forces could muster the required two-thirds vote needed for cloture.
Senator Harley M. Kilgore of West Virginia today assailed the filibuster, declaring that the FEPC Bill is “an important part of the legislation which President Truman has recommended to the Congress.” Kilgore urged immediate Senate action on the bill and declared he would do everything within his power to prevent “any deal or compromises” which would kill the bill by indefinite postponement.
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