The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-01

Louis d. Brandeis, of Boston.
has been nominated by President
Wilson for the place on the SUI
preme court bench made vacant
by the death of Associate Justice
Lamar.
The senate received the nomi-
nation with unconcealed sur
prlse-in which all official Wash
ington joined, because Mr..
Brandeis had not been mentioned
among the long list of eligibles
which President Wilson consid-
cred, or among an equally long
list of aspirants who presented
endorsements.
Some senator's announced to
their colleagues they were on
posed to the nomination, but de-
clined to be quoted to that effect.
The only senator found who was
willing to publically record his
opposition at this time was Sena-
tor Wadsworth, republican Of
New York.
Senators who approved the
nomination were not lacking. al
though they, too, avoided public
expression of their views. They
felt sure, however, they could
command the necessary majority
to confirm the appointment.
Il have nothing whatever TO
say; l have not said anything
and will not" was Mr.. Brandeis'
only comment.
Monday the senate judiciary
committee to which the nomina-
tlon was referred, will apoint p
subcommittee, which according
to precedent will consider the
nomination and make a report.
II today's talk of opposition
amounts to anything it will de-
Velop in the committee. There
has been no contest of anv note
over supreme court appoint
ment since the days of President
Cleveland.
1t was learned tonight that
among the endorsements sent TO
the president urging Mr.. Bran
delS' appointment was one from
Clifford Pinchot, former CHIEF
forester, whose celebrated con
troversy with Secretary Balling-
er brought Mr.. Brandeis into the
public eye six years ago. He ap-
neared as chief counsel for the
forces opposing the FORMER sec
retary of the interior in the noted
Ballinger-Pinchot controversy
which sent its ramifications into
many phases of national politics
at the outset of President Taft's
administration.
Although celebrated as a law
yer, Mr.. Brandeis has been de-
voting practically all his time of
late. to the Zionist movement in
this country which has for its
object the repatriation of the
Jews to nation of their own in
Palestine. If confirmed he would
be the first Jew to sit on the
supreme court bench.
Some of the senator's disposed
to express opposition to Mr..
Brandeis today were democrats
who sought to put their obpec-
tions on political grounds, Sena-
tor James of Kentucky. the ma
tive state of Mr.. Brandeis, unre-
servedly told them the nominee
was democrat. Justice Lamar,
whom he would succeed, also was
a democrat. Six of the eight
justices now on the bench are
republicans.
The senator's who approve the
nomination of Mr.. Brandeis de-
clared that the opposition was
largely in the realm of talk
which would disappear as the ap-
pointment was considered with
mature deliberation. They con-
ceded, owever, that a contest
over a supreme court appoint
ment not out of the ordinary and
recalled that Chief Justice White
had one vote cast against him
when President Taft elevated
him to the head of the bench.
On the whole, however, no
question that comes before the
senate is ever treated on such a
non-partisan basis as an appoint
ment to the supreme court. 1t