Angels   Sanchez Barbudo
5141  Spring Court
Madison,  Wis.
Madison,   Dec.26,   1964
The Honorable Robert W.
House  Office  Bldg.
Washington 25,   D.C.
Kastenmeier
Dear Mr.  Kastenmeier:
I wish to transmit to you warmest greetings and best
wishes  for 1965 from the members of WILPF Madison  ,  together
with the enclosed petition  (2 signed ones)   ,  of which, we
hope,  many more are reaching you these  days.   They are addressed,
as you will see,  to the entire Wisconsin House delegation,
but we  could not think of anybody in care of whom we would
rather send the petitions but you,  because we trust that
you are  actively engaged in backing the efforts of the  group
of liberal Democrats who have   joined to present a  resolution
to bar the  seating of the 5 Mississippi Congressmen    on the
opening of the new Congress,  Jan.   4.
We had no time to have our petition circulated statewide,  and in view of the urgency  (with the holidays  in between)
could only rush and ditto them off,   in order to get them to
you in time,   so you won't receive  such a  great number of
individually signed petitions as we would have liked, but
if you will be kind enough to transmit whatever number
reaches you to the other members  of the Wisconsin Representation
in the  House,  perhaps a  small dent could be made  in their
resistance^  at least of the  Democrats)  to vote for passage
of the  resolution. At any case,  Madison WILPF members wish
to go on record of having urged the Wisconsin House members
to join the fight against the  State of Mississippi's systematic
denial,  through violent means,  of the American citizens'   right
to vote.  And one  cannot think of any better demonstration
of the U.S.  determination to see racial  .justice  done,  than
passage  of the Resolution,ka or at least,  a  good fight
for passage!  We Msdis&nians are proud and happy that we
do not have to prod our Representative to do this.
Neither, we greatly trust,  do we have  to urge you to
vote  for abolition of HUAC, we  Just count with your vote
and hope that,  even if that Resolution falls to pass,, .there
will be a  good show as to the number of those agaInst.^eryfflfrared
with the heroic times when there was only Bob Kastenmeier
and less than a handful of others to stick their neck out.
Best wishes  for success of all your activities  in
the  New Gongress,  and A Happy New Year for you and your
family' I (a^C^^ ^ . uL
-\_r
Angela   Sanchez Barbudo,  WILPF Leglsl,   secretary
Madison, Wis*