___________________________________ THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE T " House Approves, Move To Continue Existence Of Civil Rights Group Cite Slow UN FACT-FINDING TRIP: House Committee Debates Omnibus Civil Rights Bill WASHINGTON-The full House Judiciary Committee will begin discussion next week of the most sweeping civil rights legislation ever to be considered seriously in Congress, the New York Times reported recently. A subcommittee approved the bill last week, but the full scope of the measure was not known until, at the weekend, the panel published a committee print, the first official text of the legislation worked out by the subcommittee. The subcommittee bill covers 62, printed pages. It has 10 substan- tive titles, covering virtually every major aspect of the race problem except housing segregation. Many of the titles were pro- posed by the -administration, but the subcommittee bill adds some new ones and carries others sig- nificantly beyond the administra- tion's proposals. Following is an analysis of the 10 titles. VOTING Existing law forbids voting of- ficials to discriminate against Ne- groes and allows the Justice De- partment to bring civil suits against descriminatory practices. This has been the department's major weapon since its enactment in 1957. The bill, following administra- tion recommendations, singles out some specific discriminatory prac- tices and bans them. The aim is to simplify and shorten lawsuits. State officials are forbidden to apply different standards or pro- cedures to different voters or to refuse registration because of im- material errors on forns. South- ern registrars have rejected Ne- groes for errors in punctuation. If would-be voters are given a literacy test, it must be in writing. And the applicant must be given a copy of his test. Moreover, the bill sets up a "re- buttable presumption" that any graduate of the sixth grade is lit- erate for voting purposes. This means that the state would have to prove the contrary. Under the Civil Rights Act of 1960, federal voting referees may be appointed toregister persons in - any area where state officials continue to discriminate, but no federal judge has yet appointed any referees. The bill carries an administra- tion proposal to appoint such ref- erees at once, before the extended trial of a voting case, in any coun- ty where fewer than 15 per cent of voting-age Negroes are register- ed. Referees would be chosen from a list of names drawn up by the judges of the court of appeals for that circuit. This is a change from the administration bill, which would have had the list drawn by the appellate and the district judges. District judges are some- times less favorable to civil rights complainants than are appellate judges..- The subcommittee bill would make all these voting sections ap- plicable to all elections. The ad- ministration's draft covered only; elections for federal office-Presi- dent, senator, representative. See COMMITTEE, Page 8 LegislationI Clears Body By Big Vote Some Southerners Cast Ballots for Unit WASHINGTON (P)-The House kept the Civil Rights Commission in business yesterday, sending President John F. Kennedy a bill extending its life for one year. The emergency measure was' made necessary when the com- mission's statutory authority ex- pired Sept. 30. A 10-part civil rights bill now before the House Judiciary Com- mittee includes a provision that would make the commission a per- manent agency. Wide Margin The one-year extension passed the House 265-80, with 136 Demo- crats and 129 Republicans joining to provide far more than the two- thirds majority required under the emergency procedure followed. Seventy-one Democrats, all from Southern or border states except Rep. Walter S. Baring (D-Nev), and nine Southern Republicans voted against the measure. An additional 10 Democrats, in- cluding Majority Whip Hale Boggs (D-La), did not vote but were re- corded against the bill. More surprising were the 14 votes cast by Southerners in favor of the bill. These included five members from Texas, three from Florida, two each from Tennessee and Kentucky and one each from Virginia and Georgia. No Clues The heavy majority provided no clues as to how the omnibus civil rights bill will fare, however. As it now stands it is probably the most sweeping civil rights bill ever con- sidered by a congressional com- mittee--Even if it is trimmed, as expected, by the judiciary commit- tee, it should emerge as a formi- dable - and controversial - mea- sure. The judiciary committee starts working °on the bill today. As; drawn by a subcommittee it con-, tains things which the Kennedy administration asked, such as a ban on discrimination in public accommodations, as well as some items not sought by the adminis- tration, such as a Fair Employ- ment Practices Commission. A handful of southerners spoke, against ,continuing the civil rightsE commission's life during the brief debate yesterday. Progress OfTalks PARIS -Preliminary negotia- tions in the so-called "Kennedy round" of tariff talks have been slower, more difficult and less successful to date than tle ne- gotiators say they expected, the New York Times reported re- cently. There appear to be two major hurdles. One is that a new bar- gaining technique is being tried and negotiators are moving slowly to avoid misstepping. The other hurdle is the bar- gaining nations' attitude. It is not yet clear that these countries are genuinely enthusiastic about the major trade liberalization that is proposed. The prolonged dispute between the Common Market and the United States over the chicken tariff is viewed as evidence sup- porting this view. France is another question. President Charles de Gaulle has not let it be known how the Ken-' nedy round fits into his scheme of things. The new bargaining plan is to have one big across-the-board cut on all items, with limited excep- tions. The nations are still pre- paring lists of exceptions that they want to claim and of exceptions that they do not want others to claim in the formal negotiations next *year. The fact that the Common Mar-1 ket has not achieved full unity yet, is another obstacle to the nego- tiations. During the years of tran- sition, Common Market decisions come only by prolonged negotia- tions between the six nations., 1 One major subject on which the six still have to make their de- cisions is agriculture policy. The United States has insisted, as in the chicken war, that there must be a substantial easing of tradet curbs on farm products.t UNITED NATIONS ()-The So- viet Union threw a roadblock yes- terday into plans for sending a United Nations fact-finding team to South Viet Nam to investigate alleged ill treatment of Buddhists. The United States and Britain were caught by surprise by a last- Soviets Note Wheat Loss MOSCOW-An official Soviet source indicated yesterday that grain supplies available to the government from domestic pro- duction this year would be as much as 18 per cent below the 1962 level, the New York Times reported yesterday. This disclosure, by a commenta- tor of Tass, the official press agency, was the first to be made publicly by an official source on the extent of the Soviet crop fail- ure. Meanwhile in Washington, it is expected that the Kennedy ad- ministration will reach a policy decision on the sale of American wheat to Russia in the next day or two, high ranking government officials said yesterday. There has been no formal ap- proach by the Soviet Union to buy United States wheat, but commer- cial traders reportedly have been sounded out by the Russians on the prospect. And there have been reports that such Communist sa- tellite nations as Hungary, Czech- oslovakia and Bulgaria are also seeking United States wheat. Administration officials said yesterday at a State Department foreign policy briefing session that the Russians are seeking roughly $250 million worth of wheat- about 100 to 125 million bushels. This would be -in addition to the $700 million worth of grain the Soviet Union already has oon- tracted from Canada and Aus- tralia. minute Soviet proposal to give the fact-finding job to the Vietnamese Control Commission set up by the 1954 Geneva Conference and thus sidestep a direct UN role in the investigation. Under the Soviet plan the con- trol commission-made up of In- dia, Poland and Canada--would make the survey and report to the commission cochairmen, Britain and the Soviet Union. There was no immediate com- ment from the United States, but British sources expressed surprise that the Soviet Union made the suggestion without consulting them. They added that this cast doubt on the seriousness of the Soviet proposal. In another move at the session, Cuban Ambassador Carlos Lechu- ga declared his country would re- fuse to sign the limited test ban treaty while the United States waged what he called an un- declared war against Cuba. United States Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson promptly accused Cuba of cold war tactics and lin- ing up with the Chinese Com- munists in rejecting "the greatest Russians Move To Alter Viet Nam Plan advance in world relations in the last year-the nuclear treaty." Lechuga delivered a bitter anti- United States speech in the Gen- eral Assembly and Stevenson spoke in reply. "The malevolence and the per- fidy which characterize the gov- ernment of the United States have been displayed through their op- portunistic, hypocritical and Machiavellian policy," Lechuga said. "The United States errs, how- ever, when it imagines that a cli- mate of peace in the world is com- patible with a policy of war against Cuba." Stevenson called the speech an example of intemperate, cold war rhetoric that was in marked con- trast with "the new look in inter- national relations." He suggested that Prime Min-) ister Fidel Castro instructed Le- chuga to make such a speech be- cause the Castro regime fears the Cuban people. "It has good reason to, for Dr. Castro knows well that the love of liberty runs deep in the Cuban soul, and he knows that a people who have risen before to cast c tyrants will rise again," Stevi son added. Lechuga accused the Uni States of pulling strings in United Nations and said a "gl ing example" was the blocking Red China's admission to world organization. He assailed United States e nomic pressure on Cuba "shameful behavior-brutal, g tesque." State Records Drop in Jobles By The Associated Press LANSING - State unemplc ment as of Sept. 15 hit an eig year low, figures released by t State Employment Security Cc mission Saturday show. Booming auto sales were cited the cause of the 3.9 per cent u employment rate. Only 113,000 o of 2,710,200 workers in the st are without jobs. are- wihout;jobs. S , , 4/ - --