Speech #870187964

Mr. President. I oppose the MansfieldDirksen amendment to H.R. 1361. the amendment being the embodiment of S. 2750. For truths sake. S. 2750 ought to be called a bill to rob literacy tests. adopted by the States in the exercise of their undoubted constitutional power. of their legal potency for the benefit of illiterate persons who have allegedly completed the sixth grade. In discussing S. 2750. I shall confine my observations to the selection and election of Presidential and Vice Presidential electors. Senators. and Representatives in Congress in the various States. I take this course simply because the power of Congress to legislate in respect to the selection and election of delegates and commissioners in the territories or possessions of the United States rests upon other grounds.