Southern Reaction

His white eyebrows crinkled with disgust, John Nance Garner one day last week threw down the magazine he had been reading, summoned Indiana's Sherman Minton to take the chair, stalked deliberately out of the U. S. Senate. Senator Minton settled down with a copy of Many Laughs For Many Days, by Humorist Irvin S. Cobb, tried to ignore the speech being made by Mississippi's Theodore Gilmore (''The Man") Bilbo. For 27 hours and 45 minutes before Senator Bilbo arose, the Senate floor had been occupied by Louisiana's bushy-haired little Allen J. Ellender. For 14 days, the U. S. .Senate had been occupied with a filibuster by a determined group of Southern Senators against the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill.

To Majority Leader Alben Barkley the filibuster was not the most serious Southern reaction to his allowing an anti-lynching bill to reach the Senate floor. Because he faces a Senatorial primary in Kentucky next August he left Washington and the filibuster to attend a testimonial banquet in his honor at Louisville's Brown Hotel. Governor A. B. ("Happy'') Chandler, who was put into office with Alben Barkley's help, declined to attend. Instead popular "Happy"' Chandler was given a luncheon the same day, at which he announced his willingness to serve Kentucky "in any other capacity,'' practically made a bid for Alben Barkley's seat in the U. S. Senate.

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