WASHINGTON--Four prominent Negro spokesmen demanded tonight that the 80th Congress refuse to seat Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, D., Miss., in January because of his acknowledged membership in the Ku Klux Klan and his efforts to block Negro suffrage in the South.
Bilbo, victor in Mississippi's recent Democratic primaries, took a 15-minute verbal hiding from the four Negro leaders, who were allotted radio time by the Mutual Broadcasting system to answer a broadcast he made over the same network on Aug. 2.
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