Evening star. [volume], March 05, 1937, Page A-7, Image 7

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COURT PLAN FIGHT
OPENS NEXT WEEK
Both Sides Prepare for
Hearings Before Senate
Judiciary Committee.
S) the Associated Press.
The bitter fight over the adminis
tration's Supreme Court bill, stimu
lated by President Roosevelt's speech
last night, will swing into fresh ac
tivity next week, with both sides
hoping to capture necessary Senate
votes from a small group of uncom
mitted Senators who appear now to
hold the fate of the measure.
Opponents are claiming at least 42
of the Senate's 96 votes and claim
they are confident of recruiting seven
more to give them a majority.
Administration proponents said they
had commitments from some 38 Sen
ators and they, too, expressed confi
dence of mustering a majority from
the small group of Senators, who have
yet to make their decisions.
Prepare for Battle.
Meantime both sides girded for the
fray, begining next week, before the
Senate Judiciary Committee. Chair
man Ashurst announced that Attor
ney General Cummings will lead the
advocates of the measure in hearings
to begin Wednesday. He will be fol
lowed by Assistant Attorney General
Robert Jackson, former Senator Smith
W. Brookhart of Iowa and Judge Wil
liam Denman of San Francisco.
The opposition will be given an
equivalent number of days beginning
the following Monday. Its witnesses
have not yet been disclosed, although
Invitations have been sent to promi
nent citizens, identified with labor,
farmers and the legal profession.
The very size of the opposition, even
If it proves less than a majority, fore
cast months of argument before a
vote can be had. Administration
leaders freely conceded the opposition
was sufficient to conduct a filibuster
of indefinite duration.
No Chance for Cloture Rule.
The Senate's rules provide that any
member may spe*k as long as he
chooses. There is but one method of
cutting off debate and bringing an
Issue to vote, and that is by invoking
the little-used cloture rule. Two
thirds of the Senate must vote for its
use before it can be applied. Again,
administration leaders conceded they
could not get such a vote.
Of compromises, two were men
tioned most frequently, although word
from the White House was that they
were not acceptable. These were the
Wheeler-Bone amendment, to give
Congress a veto power over Supreme
Court decisions nullifying an act of
Congress, and a proposal that the
maximum possible increase in the
membership of the court be limited to
two instead of six.
Senator Logan, Democrat, of Ken
tucky, an advocate of the Roosevelt
bill, told the Senate yesterday that
utility companies were entering active
ly into the campaign against the pro
gram. He read a letter from "an out
standing Republican" in Kentucky
saying he had been approached by a
utility lawyer with an offer to pay for
telegrams to members of Congress op
posing the measure.
Fulfills Promise.
President Roosevelt’s speech last
night fulfilled a promise made weeks
ago to hesitant supporters in Con
gress.
With his own party split into two
bitterly battling factions, and the first
outburst of public opinion expressing
Itself in a volume of letters that most
ly denounced the proposal, he told
them that at the proper time they
could count upon him to leap into the
fray.
One after another, he called them
to the White House, in groups of twos
and threes, for intimate personal con
versations. Returning to the Capitol,
they told their friends of the Chief
Executive’s pledge.
He told them, they said, that he
Would keep the administration side of
the great controversy before the people,
and expressed confidence that when
first reactions gave way to understand
ing the majorities which backed him
twice in presidential elections would
•upport his court proposal.
His effort to rally those majorities to
the court proposal began last night. It
will be renewed in less than a week,
with a “fireside chat" on Tuesday.
Other speeches and messages are to
follow.
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DOUGHTON NOT‘AFRAID’
OF COURT REVAMPING
Bt the Associates Press.
CHARLOTTE, N. C„ March 5.—Rep
resentative Robert L. Doughton said
yesterday he wasn’t “afraid the skies
will fall” if President Roosevelt's pro
posal to modify the Supreme Court is
approved by Congress.
“I think the sun will continue upon
Its appointed rounds, seed time and
harvest will succeed each other, and
babies will come along at about the
same rate they have been arriving,”
observed the tall, robust, 74-year-old
chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee, here to address a
Democratic victory dinner.
Doughton was not ready, however,
to discuss his views upon the Presi
dent's plan to add a Supreme Court
Justice for each justice who does not
retire from the bench upon reaching
the age of 70 years.
"The proposal is before the Senate,”
•aid he, "and I don't think it would
be proper for us In the House to do
much talking at this time. It might
appear that we were attempting to
auggest indirectly to the Senators what
they should do about the question.”
Mr*. Walter Kline Speaks.
Mrs. Walter Kline last night lec
tured to the nursery and kindergarten
mothers of the Neighborhood House,
470 N street southwest, on. "Mexico,’’
where she has been with her Army
officer husband.
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President, Who Eats Variety,
Pursued by Terrapin Soup
Rebellion Over Breakfast Repetition
Followed by Reappearances of
Dish at Dinners.
BT the Associated Press.
rresident Roosevelt, who revolted
against eating the same old breakfast
day after day, learned today that you
can't be sure of varied fare even when
eating away from home.
Terrapin—one of his favorite foods
—tempted him at the cabinet dinner
Wednesday.
Terrapin soup was the send-off at
the Democratic "victory dinner” last
night.
Terrapin was served at the recent
Gridiron dinner, thus appearing at
three of four dinners the President
has eaten outside the White House
this Winter.
Repetition of his favorite salt fish
caused his breakfast rebellion. It
was repetition of very good broiled
! calves liver and bacon which brought
a luncheon "reorganization” when
Mrs. Roosevelt returned home.
What, President's menu-watchers
pondered, would happen if the Chief
Executive should tire of terrapin?
And dinners away from home?
They noticed he took the terrapin
all right last night, but passed up the
main course of capon-on-ham. Waving
the waiter aside, he lit a fresh
cigarette and continued his animated
chat with Postmaster General Parley.
But his best friends weren't alarmed.
They said Mr. Roosevelt isn't what
could be called a finicky eater. He may
want variety, but he likes almost
everything.
Six kinds of breakfast salt fish
please him, as Well as the bacon-and
eggs. Some mornings the President
wants nothing more than orange juice
and milk.
There's nothing hot-house about the
President’s taste. He’s fond of out
door cooking. Up at Albany, he and
his good friends occasionally used to
slip off to broil a steak over an open
fire.
On one campaign trip, he stopped at
a roadside stand in the Vermont
mountains to order a hot dog. At
Hyde Park picnics, he takes onions
with his hamburger
Like most fishermen, he prefers a
fish he has caught himself
Dinner guests at the White House
recall that occasionally the President
eats only his vegetables and that he
doesn't eat many desserts Not a pre
scribed diet but his own Judgment la
responsible, it is understood.
There’s one dish he eats with relish
week after week—the scrambled eggs
Mrs. Roosevelt has been fixing on Sun
day nights for more than 30 years.
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YOUNGDEMOCRATS
TOAST ROOSEVELT
More Than 1,500 Hear Mrs.
Roosevelt Expound New
Deal Principles.
More than 1,500 Young Democrats
packed the ball room of the Willard
Hotel last night to toast four years
of Roosevelt and listen to Mrs. Roose
velt expound the principles of the
New Deal.
Cheers, claps and a few boos were
the reward of the array of speakers
who addressed the group, each of
whom paid $10 to eat his or her
share of the "Junior Victory Dinner.”
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The enthusiasm for the democracy
of the 1930's reached its peak when
a picture of President Roosevelt was
thrown on the screen just before his
voice was brought from the Mayflower
over microphones.
The function continued until 2 a.m.
with dancing and entertainment from
Lucy Monroe, who flew down from
New York to sing for the occasion,
and Eddie Duchln’s Orchestra.
"I want to congratulate you on be*
ing part of your Government,” Mrs.
Roosevelt, the honored guest, told the
diners, many of them gray haired.
"For as long ~js you think and act
on your real convictions, you will be
the Government. The minute you
leave It to a small group of people. It
ceases to be a democracy.
"No small group of people should
be able to say what is going to happen
in a nation of 125,000,000 persons.
All I can say tonight is to keep the
control in your hands by being good
citizens and go on to make this a real
democracy all the time.”
Mrs. Roosevelt said no one could
be a dictator In a land "as peaceful as
ours In spirit." J
When people talk about the pos
sibility of a dictatorship in this coun
try, she went on, “I think the very
best answer is the fact that we have so
many young Democrats who believe in
democracy. No one could be a dictator
in a land as peaceful as ours. Most
dictatorships are built on a military
party.”
Representative Maverick, Democrat,
of Texas, who introduced Mrs. Roose
velt, said he had suggested that she
speak about the Supreme Court
“She gave me an astonished look,”
he related, "and said, ‘That’s none of
my business.’ ”
The Young Democrats heard also
from Frank wickhem, national presi
dent of the Young Democratic Clubs
of America; Aubrey Williams, head of
the National Youth Administration;
Senator Neely, Democrat, of West
Virginia, and Postmaster Oeneral
Farley. Representative Maverick,
Democrat, of Texas, was toastmaster.
SPEAKER FEARS COURT
MAY ‘NULLIFY* ELECTION
B7 tbc Associated Press.
BOSTON, March Representa
tive Ed V. Izac, Democrat, of Cali
fornia last night told one of the
Democratic party’s victory dinners
in New England that the Supreme
Court may nullify the election victory
and “cheat the people of their birth
right."
He spoke at Lawrence and was
joined in a defense of Roosevelt ad
ministration actions by Representa
tive Arthur D. Healey, Democrat, of
Massachusetts, who said in Brockton
that the recent capital-labor settle
ments in the automotive and steel in
dustries “are historical milestones in
the progressive acceptance in private
business and industry” of the New
Deal philosophy.
James Roosevelt, son of the Presi
dent, and White House aide, spoke
at Springfield and Worcester.
Nye Sees Court Plan Defeat.
BINGHAMTON, N. Y., March 5
(A>).—Senator Gerald P. Nye last night
predicted certain defeat for Presi
dent Roosevelts Supreme Court pro
posal. The NoHh Dakota Republican
in an Interview before an address
here called the plan "dangerous” and
"the wrong way to go about It.”
Ridley to Be Guest Speaker.
Representative J. Ridley Mitchell
of Tennessee will be guest speaker at
the Democratic League luncheon at
| the Grafton Hotel tomorrow at 1:30
p.m. Arthur Clarendon Smith, league
president, will preside. Mrs. Helen
Robichaux is in charge of the musi
cal part of the program.
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