ted for the use of the Committee on Rules and Administration Burns, James M., Americans for Democratic Action.. Epstein, Henry, member, National Commission of the Anti-Defama- Hayden, Carl, United States Senator from Arizona Henderson, Elmer W., Director, American Council on Human Rights. Lehman, Herbert H., United States Senator from New York.... Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., United States Senator from Massachusetts. Maslow, Will, general counsel, American Jewish Congress. 108 202 Read, Harry, executive assistant to James B. Carey, secretary-treas- Reuther, Walter P., president and director of the fair practices and Saltonstall, Leverett, United States Senator from Massachusetts- Ferebee, Dorothy B., president, National Council of Negro Women. 276 278 Potofsky, Jacob S., president, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Reuther, Walter P., president and director of the fair practices and antidiscrimination department, United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW-CIO) - Weitzer, Bernard, national legislative director, Jewish War Veterans 287, 301 LIMITATION ON DEBATE IN THE SENATE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1951 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINISTRATION, Washington, D. C. ›mmittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:05 a. m., in room enate Office Building, Senator William Benton presiding. t: Senators Benton and Monroney. resent: Darrell St. Claire, chief clerk; and Russell King, nsel to the committee. r BENTON. Shall we come to order? hearing has been called by the Committee on Rules and tration in order that pending resolutions amending the loture rule might achieve legislative consideration, if possible, ession of Congress. are four such resolutions before us, on one of which, Senate on 105, I have joined with Senator Lehman, Senator on, and others in introducing. For my own part I have felt resolution is the one best directed to the problem of curtailing debate on the floor of the Senate. felt that the Senate must accept some restriction on what I ng to call its exasperating processes; and soon, I hope, or it d itself regarded as a most weary and irresolute arm of an e resolute democracy. joined in Senate Resolution 105 with 10 other Senators, but e also 3 other resolutions before us this morning. I sugSenator Monroney agrees, that for purposes of the record we rt the present rule applied to cloture as it now operates in the and then insert in the record these four resolutions, Nos. 41, and 203. u have those before you? or MONRONEY. Yes. or BENTON. Let us insert these in the record. present rule referred to follows:) RULE XXII PRECEDENCE OF MOTIONS n a question is pending, no motion shall be received but burn. ourn to a day certain, or that when the Senate adjourn it shall be to a in. e a recess. ceed to the consideration of executive business. on the table. -nano indefinitely |