Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-06-08

Nominated to'United States SUI y
preme court by President Wilson =
\ January %, 1916. =
Confirmed by the Senate June l, =
= after a bitter contest.
Washington. d. C. Tune 3.-The NOM
ination of Louis D.. Brandeis, Of Boston,
to the supreme court to succeed the late
Joseph Rucke Lamar was confirmed by
the senate by a vote of AZ to %.
The vote, taken without debate, end
ed n Of the bitterest contests ever
waged against a presidential nominee.
Mr.. Branedis will be the first Jew to
occupy a seat on the supreme bench.
Only one democrat, Senator New
lands, voted against confirmation.
Three republicans. Senators LaFollette.
Norris and ~PoindeXter, voted with the
democratic majority and Senators
Gronna and Clapp would have done so,
but were paired with Senators Borah
and Kenyon.
The negative vote of Senator New
lanos was a complete surprise to the
! Senate and the Nevada senator, recog-
EiZing that his action had aroused COM
ment, later made public a formal expla-
nation.
81 have a high admiration for Mr..
Brandeis as a publicist and propaganda
list Of distinction" said Senator New
lands: 81 dome regard him as a man Of
judicial temperament and for that rea-
son | voted against his confirmation"
Throughout the fight President Will
son stood firmly behind his nominee,
never wavering when it seemed certain
that an u~nfavorable report would be re-
turned by the Senate judiciary COM
mittee. Before the committee voted he
wrote a letter to Chairman Culberson,
-r,rt,x GOD n
action.
How They Voted.
Senator's who voted for confirmation
were:
Democrats-Ashurst, Bankhead, Beck
ham, Broussard, Chamberlain, Chiffon.
Culberson, Fletcher. Gore. Hardwick.
Hitchcock. Hollis, Hughes, Husting.
Lee. of Maryland; Lewis, Myers, O'Gor-
mar, O,yerman, Owen, Phelan. Pittman.
Sheppard, Shields, Simmons, Smith, Of
Arizona; Smith, of Georgia; Smith, of
Maryland: Smith. of South Carolina;
stone: daggart Thomas Thompson,
Republicans-Lafollette. Norris, Poin-
dexter. Total, 3.
Voting against confirmation were:
Republicans-Grady. randigee. Clark,
of Wyoming; Cummins,, Curtis, Dilling-
Lippitt, Lodge, Nelson, oliver, Page
Smith. of Michigan; Sterling, suther-
land. Townsend. Warren and Works
Observation-Disclosures. Total, 1.
The following pairs were announced,
Senators named first being for confir-
nation and those named second
against:
Johnson. Maine. with Wadsworth;
Swanson with Jones, MARITIME with Smoot
Clapp with Kenyon, Gronna with Borah
Bryan with Catron, Pomerene with
Weeks. Johnson, South Dakota, witt
with enrose, Tillman with Goff, Robin
son with Burleigh. Total. "a.
Senators who were not paired and who
did not vote were:
Clarke, democrat; Sherman and Nc.
Lean. republicans. Total, ).
Many Senators Paired.
OK the senator's who were paired
many were absent because of the ap-
preaching republican national conven.
ton in Chicago. All absent senators hac
arranged to be paired: in the vote, how
ever, except Senator Clarke, of Arkan.
ses, and Mclean, Of Connecticut. Sen.
ator Sherman, of Illinois. was paired
with Senator Thompson, of Kansas, bu'
released the Kansas senator SO that ht
might vote.
The nomination of Brandeis was sen
t othe Senate January %. 1t was re,
ferred to the judiciary committee ant
Clifford Thorne, railroad COMMISSIONS
of Iowa, was the first witness protest.
ing. Immediately a flood OF protest!
against confirmation and memorials il
favor thereof began to pour in.