Shill Sez: "Ruth"-less Yanks no Threat   

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Volume CLXVI July 4, 1936 Worcester, Mass. 1 cent Weather: Hot; tornadoes impossible

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U.S. SENATE CONSIDERS NEW
 "DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE" LAW   

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     Senator Bilbo Warns "Marriage in Jeopardy!";
        Senator Walsh is "Firmly Opposed" to Bill

By Cissy Patterson
Washington Times-Herald Service

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 3 – Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D - Miss.) capitalized on the Senate's desire to adjourn for the July 4 holiday by pushing through legislation that he said would defend traditional marriage from those who seek to "subvert" it.

Senator Bilbo of Mississippi, shown here without his sheet and burning cross, urges the Senate to defend "marriage as we know it."

News Analysis:
Marriage counseling from the representatives of gambling and polygamy

By Geoffrey Dawson
The Massachusetts Spy

Washington City, sweltering in the July heat, was treated to the spectacle of the United States Senate, facing the Depression at home and increasingly warlike dictatorships overseas but choosing instead to take up a worthless bill to combat a non-existent problem: interracial marriage.

Senator Bankhead of Alabama, whose daughter Tallulah has provided him with an inside look at sexual immorality, rose reluctantly in support of Senator Bilbo's bill to make interracial marriage a federal crime, punishable by five years' imprisonment.

Senator McCarran of Nevada, looking even more florid than usual, had the effrontery to lecture his colleagues on the supposed immorality of such alliances, although he had no trouble defending the legal gambling halls and houses of ill repute that constitute the principal attractions of his dusty desert constituency.

Perhaps the high point of the debate was the address by Senator Thomas of Utah, who staunchly defended the proposed federal ban as "absolutely necessary" to protect the institution of marriage. It will be recalled that he represents a state that until recently defined marriage as the union of one man with as many women as Brigham Young would allow him.

That's why this reporter was gratified by Senator Coolidge's prompt retort to Senator Thomas. The junior Senator from Massachusetts told his fellow Senators that he "could not imagine a time when the good citizens of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts would require instruction in marriage from anyone from Utah."

To which we at the Spy say: "Amen."

The colorful Senator held the floor for nine hours in support of his legislation to make marriages between whites and coloreds a federal crime. Sen. Bilbo told an empty Senate that "miscegenation of the races" was the "gravest threat to marriage today."

"Did you know that in more than twenty states a nigger buck can marry a white woman, thereby creating a new generation of mulattoes to further sully our nation?" Bilbo asked.

The Mississippi Senator is well known for his frequent tirades on racial issues, which provide a welcome diversion from Dictator Franklin D. Roosevelt's effort to destroy American enterprise through "Social Security" legislation and Stalinist "labor laws." [What happened to the AP report? – Ed.][AP machine needs a new ribbon – Telegraph Ed.]

"Marriage is between white man and a white woman," Sen. Bilbo thundered. "We cannot allow lustful niggers to take innocent Southern belles across state lines to places like New York for the illicit and immoral purpose of providing legal sanction to the satisfaction of primitive African urges." Sen. Bilbo interrupted his tirade briefly to congratulate his constituents in Clarksdale for their successful lynching the previous night.

The question of interracial marriages has been the subject of much controversy, as most Northern states have refused to outlaw the practice. Under U.S. law, an interracial marriage legal in, for example, Massachusetts, must be recognized in all other states.

The debate on the Senate floor grew at times heated. Although Sen. Bilbo allowed Massachusetts Senator David Walsh to take the floor to urge his fellow Senators to "reject intolerance and narrow-mindedness," the voluble Southerner refused to allow Sen. Robert Wagner, whom he called "the Senator from Jew York," to pose a question.

Later, in the Senate cloakroom, Sen. Wagner said that he had planned to ask Sen. Bilbo why if mixed-race children were regarded as such an abomination, Sen. Bilbo's forefathers had sired so many of them by repeatedly raping their female Negro slaves.

Reached for comment at his home in Hyde Park, where he had gone for the long weekend, President Franklin Roosevelt said, "It's certainly a beautiful day here in the Hudson Valley."

ADV'T. Fireworks tonite at White City, beginning at 9 p.m. All Whites welcome.