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Archive Report
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Proposal of Federal Action to Abolish Poll Tax
Administration Interest in Poll Tax Legislation
Quiet Pressure is being exerted “from a high administration source” to obtain action by Congress at its present session on a bill to prohibit collection of poll taxes as a prerequisite to voting in future federal elections. Hearings shortly to be held by a sub-committee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, under the chairmanship of Senator Norris (Ind., Neb.),1 may mark the opening of a sustained effort to bring about passage of an anti-poll ...