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Senate deadlocks over cloture on literacy test bill
Democratic Leader Mansfield pressed a second cloture vote to end debate on a bill excluding sixth grade education from literacy tests for federal voting. The chamber failed 53 to 43 to limit debate, needing two thirds. A Mansfield move to table won 64 to 33, keeping the measure alive. Dirksen said the refusal to kill showed 67 senators favored proceeding despite absentees. The bill would curb literacy tests used to bar Negroes from voting, with long Senate deliberations and a first cloture in 1927 not used to end civil rights filibusters. The vote split 30 to 30 among Democrats and 23 to 13 against limiting debate. the tabling vote saw 38 Democrats and 26 Republicans oppose tabling, while 23 Democrats and 10 Republicans favored.
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