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1 (1956)

handle is hein.cbhear/cblhaaon0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 84TH CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES f REPORT 2d Session No. 2187 CIVIL RIGHTS MAY 21, 1956.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. DONOHUE, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 627] The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 627) to provide means of further securing and protecting the civil rights of persons within the jurisdiction of the United States, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. The amendment is as follows: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: That this Act may be cited as the Civil Rights Act of 1956. PART I-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS SEC. 101. (a) There is created in the executive branch of the Government a Commission on Civil Rights (hereinafter called the Commission). (b) The Commission shall be composed of six members who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Not more than three of the members shall at any one time be of the same political party. (c) The President shall designate one of the members of the Commission as Chairman and one as Vice Chairman. The Vice Chairman shall act as Chairman in the absence or disability of the Chairman, or in the event of a vacancy in that office. (d) Any vacancy in the Commission shall not affect its powers and shall be filled in the same manner, and subject to the same limitation with respect to party affiliations as the original appointment was made. (e) Four members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum. COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION SEC. 102. (a) Each member of the Commission who is not otherwise in the service of the Government of the United States shall receive the sum of $50 per day for each day spent in the work of the Commission, shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary travel expenses, and shall receive a per diem allowance of $12 in lieu of actual expenses for subsistence, inclusive of fees or tips to porters and stewards. 71006-56-----1

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