The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-12
SENDS WARREN
NAME AGAIN TO
BE CONFIRMED
Republican Leaders, Who Ad-
vised Against it Yester-
day, Change Course
HARD FIGHT is SEEN
Nomination Must Now Travel
Again Through the Reg.
ular Course
HARD FIGHT is SEEN

Washington, Mar. l2.-President
Coolidge threw down the gauntlet
to his opponents in the Senate today
by resubmitting the nomination Of
Charles Beechcr Warren to be At
ltorney!General of the United States.
After conference with Mr.. War
rem, who had been summoned from
Detroit after his name )failed of
confirmation by single vote, the
President decided to fight out the
issue and give Republican Senate
leaders another opportunity to strive
for confirmation.
Senator Butler of Mass achusetts,
a close personal friend of the Pres
ldent, was present at the White
House conference and said he be-
lleved the necessary votes for con-
firmation could be obtained.
Attitude Stiffens
Republican, leaders previously had
advised Mr.. Coolidge that the sit
uation appeared hopeless but with
Mr.. Warren's arrival here there was
stiffening Of Republican lines and
during the long talk between the
President, Senator Butler, and the
nominee, resulted in decision that
confirmation would be poss ible by
narrow margin.
Meantime the opposition, which
includes. almost the whole Democrat
lc membership of the Senate and
group of Republican insurgents. also
set out to reorganize its strength in
such a way as to again block Senate
approval. 1t was indicated that the
Presidents decision might result in
iengthenlng the special session cf
the Senate which the leaders hal
hoped to end on Saturday.
To Travel Regular Course
The Warren nomination will ,.n.
have to travel the regular cours.
through the Judiciary Committee
which includes among its members
some Of the leading opponents of
confirmation. There will be many
opportunities to interpose delays
should the opposition decide that
sort OF strategy advisable.
In thei- yreasses sment of the sit
uatlon. the Republican leaders reiMt-
ed out that when confirmation fail
ed on Tuesday on a forty to forty
tie. not only Vice President Dawes
but several of the Republican reg
ulars among the Senate membership
were absent. They also declared
that several of the Democrats who
were out Of the chamber when the
vote was taken could be won over
to support the nomination.
President Coolidge is understood
to have left it to Mr.. Warren him
self to decide whether his name
should again he submitted.
No sooner had news of the de-
clsion reached the capitol than the
enemies of the Warren appointment
began preparations to reopen o bat
tie they thought they already had
won. Senators Walsh of Montana
and Reed of Missouri, who had
placed themselves at the head of the
Democratic-i rgent Republican
group opposing confirmation, de-
clared they would make q resistance
even more stubborn than that which
mustered forty votes on Tuesdays
roll call to offset and nullify the
forty commanded by the administra-
tion leaders.
For their part most of the Repub-
lican organization leaders declined
to comment. They said they would
again go through the motions Of re-
ferring the nomination to commit
tees and then bringing it to the
Senate floor. The outcome they said
could not be determined by the roll
call itself.