Speech #810152177

I have pursued this subject not only because of my interest in the proposed legislation. but because of my thought and my fear that if such action can be accomplished by one committee of the Senate. it likewise follows that comparable actions can be consummated by other committees of the Senate. and if the legislation which results from such conduct as appears to have been pursued within the Judiciary Committee is Illconsidered or inadequate. we move in the direction of breaking down a valuable part of our legislative process. On August 19 of this year a motion was made in the Senate Committee on the Judiciary to discharge the fiveman subcommittee which had been working on displacedpersons legislation from further consideration of House bill 4567. After what I am told was a thorough discussion of the work of the immigration subcommittee and a presentation of the complicated and controversial issues on which the subcommittee was working. there were only two votes cast for the motion on August 19. On August 24 of this year the senior Senator from Illinois [Mr. LucAs]. together with 15 other Senators. submitted Senate Resolution 160 to discharge the Committee on the Judiciary from the further consideration of House bill 4567 to amend the Displaced Persons Act of Thereafter the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. with the unanimous approval of the Senate. left for a trip to Europe to study and to gather his own factual information on certain phases of the displacedpersons problem.