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- + 7-27-67) - Senate Confirms arshall, 69-L1, — For E High Court Will Become First Negro aa Tribunal ° \ By Robert C. Albright Washington Post Staff Writer President Johnson’s ap- pointment.of Solicitor Gen- et Thurgood Mayshall. to | be the first Negro member of thé United States Su- preme Court was approved | yesterday by a dandslide 69-to-11 vote of the Senate. Confirmation came as an anticlimax after six hours of mostly listless debate, during which hard-core Southern op: ; ponents challenged not Marshall’s race but his “activ- ist” temperament. Liberal and moderate sup- porters, taking his confirma- tion -for - granted, occupied themselves mainly with ‘eulo- :gizing Marshall's background | and high legal batting average. ' Good Record Cited” As counsel for the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People, he had won 29 out of 32 cases be- fore the Supreme Court, and Jas Solicitor General, 14 out of ; 18. Supporters termed it a Pay unprecedented rec- or “I am greatly honored,” said Marshall, in a statement after the vote. “Leif me take this oppor- {tunity to affirm my deep faith in this Nation and its People, and to pledge that E sha ce ever mindful of “ean. to ‘the Constit tation GS PY 5 ts 4a) apdte-the goal ofpenual_Jns: | tiee under law.” | ’ The Supreme Court is in Te. | ‘eess and ‘Marshall is expected ‘to be sworn when it begins its: new term in Octoher. View. of the ‘Majority Affer the.votes had been counted and :the roll eall an- ‘nounced, Senate Demoeratie -Leader. Mike Mansfield (Mont). summed up the view! of the majority. ' “This -is ‘a shining hour for! Mr. Marshail, for President: ‘Johnson, for the Senate and} for the. United States of Amert-| ca,” Mansfield told the Senate. “We have come a long, long! ‘way toward: equal access to| jthe Constitution’s promise. We; jshall 0 further along that way: . Tt was the third time in ‘seven years that Marshall's’ |name. had been put to a vote; 1 o£ the Senate for high legal of-l fice, In 1962 President Kenne- |dy named him a judge of the| |U,S. Cireuit Court for the Sec-! jo al Circuit. Delis, ate confirmed him then, 54 ta | 16. When in 1965 Johnson appointed him Solici- tor General, the Senate ap- proved by a simple voice vote.| ' He was nominated on June: , 23 for the Supreme Court va- _ eancy left by the retirement of: Associate Justice Tom C. | Clark, but for weeks hearings' dragged on in the Senate Judi- ciary Committee. The commit-: tee finally recommended con-, firmation by a vote of 11 to 5. | As in yesterday’s Senate final- ‘izing action, the “no” votes, came from the South. Both of Maryland's Demo} cratic Senators, Daniel B! Brewster and Joseph D. Tyd- ings, voted for confirmation. Sogn s freshman Democrat iam_B. Spotige-nise? ak sted “Aye.” Sen, rl yra JF. (D) was not recorded i The late Sen. Harry F. Byrd 'Sr. had cast his vote against; j Marshall's confirmation for circuit court judgeship in |2982, as had former Sen. A, llis Rovertson (D- as Cc. Bye TO! Sad Callahan Conrad Felt agle aa osen —————__ Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy et aa The Washington Past Times Herald _ AL The The The Washington atly News Evening Star (Washington) — Sunday Star Washington) Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New. York Post . The The The The The The New: York Ti Times Sun. Bale {ire) Worker 5 New Leader Wall Street Journal National Observer People’s World Date AUG 3 4 nar —% 6660-8 oF a ee 13 SEP 8 1967 ay AU