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Tuesday's results show that these gains were not entirely a result of the Johnson landslide. Democrats lost the Senate, but they polled solid minorities in a low-turnout election in districts lovingly carved out by a lame-duck Republican legislature...
...Dead Duck. Fractured and fragmented, the Administration supporters fell apart. In the end, the House adopted by a vote of 227 to 174 a substitute bill proposed by California Democrat B. F. (for Bernie Frederic) Sisk, who, though normally an Administration trusty, thought he had a better formula. The Sisk bill simply postpones the issue by providing that the home-rule question be put to a vote of District residents within 100 days. If approved, an elected charter board would have 210 days in which to draft a plan for city government; this in turn would have to be approved...
Concluded House Democratic Leader Carl Albert: "Home rule is a dead duck this session...
...took an almost incredible conjunction of forces--an active resident, a willing Speaker, and the most liberal congress in history--to bring the Home Rule bill to the floor of the House. Now it has been side-tracked; Rep. Albert feels that it is "a dead duck for this session" and Washington residents can only guess how long it will be before they come as close to self government again...
With the opening of the 1965 season only a week or so away, that kind of news is hardly what hunters want to hear. Worse yet, the duck that has been hardest hit, say experts of the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, has been the hunter's favorite: the big. lumbering and noisy mallard, which normally fills more than half of the Midwestern hunter's bag. Mallard breeding is at an alltime low; this year alone, hatchings fell 25% in the U.S., 35% in Canada. Now, as migration to winter grounds in the Gulf states begins...