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bill, it was announced last night, will
deliver a Nationwide radio address on
March 90, attacking the measure He
will speak over the chain of the
Columbia Broadcasting Co. It will
be his second major radio address.
His first was delivered during the
campaign in 1882 in support of the
candidacy of President Roosevelt, and
he was answered by the then Secretary
of the Treasury Ogden Mills, Senator
Glass will speak from 10 to II pm.
Ashurst said that very long list
of persons had written him asking to
be heard in opposition to the bill. He
has also a long list of those who de-
sire to support the measure. Included
in this latter list, he said, are six or
seven Governors of States, a half
dozen or more deans of law colleges,
heads of farm and labor organizations,
among the last being William Green,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, and John L. Lewis, chairman
of the Committee for Industrial Or
ganization.
The Governors who may wish to be
heard are Olin D. Johnston of South
Carolina, George H. Earle of Penn
sylvania, Leslie Jensen of South Da-
kota, Henry Horner of Illinois, Frank
Murphy of Michigan, Philip La Fol-
lette of Wisconsin and A. B. Chandler
of Kentucky.
Emphasizing the fact that other
business is more or less at standStill
while the Supreme Court issue is up,
the Senate Judiciary Committee will
not hold even its regular weekly
meeting tomorrow More and more
it is becoming evident that the legis-
lative program is waiting on dispo-
sition of the court bill
Johnson to Oppose Bill.
Well satisfied that Senator Glass Is
going to take to the air and deliver a
speech in opposition to the Supreme
Court proposal leaders of the oppo-
Sition said last night that before long
Senator Hiram johnson of California
would also come forward with an ad-
dress to the country against the bill.
In holding that the support of the
Presidents bill has reached its peak,
the opponents of the measure point
to the fact that within the last 10
days President Roosevelt himself has
twice spoken to the country for the
measure, and that the principal advo-
Gates Of the change outside Of the
President, Attorney General Cum
mings and Assistant Attorney Cen
eral Robert H Jackson, have both
made extended arguments in favor
of revamping the Supreme Court.
The opponents feel that their day in
court is yet to come, and they intend
to make the most of it.
An argument made by the PreSi-
dent and his supporters in favor of
his plan to increase the membership
of the Supreme Court is that it is
both quick and sure, and that con-
amendment would take a
long time and would not be sure.
Senator Lonergan of Connecticut,
Democrat, who has not yet COM
mitted himself for or against the
Presidents plan, is pressing for IA
vorable action on his resolution pro-
viding that hereafter constitutional
amendments shall be ratified by pop
ular elections.
He issued statement last night
saying that his plan, which has al
ready been introduced in the Senate,
is being seriously considered by Sena-
tors who are studying possible alter
natives or permanent solution of
objections made to the present pro-
cedure under which proposed amend
ments are submitted for ratification
to the State Legislatures or to con-
stitutional conventions in the States.
Lonergan believes that the 45,O0O0O0
voters should be allowed to pass di-
rectly upon all constitutional amend
ments. Ratification would rest upon
majority "otes of the electors in three
fourths of the States.
Roosevelt Speech Cited.
Opponents of the plan yesterday
brought forth excerpts from one of
the Presidents radio speeches while
he was Governor Of New York to
show that he was once a stanch
defender of States from encroachment
by the Federal Government.
In speech broadcast Nation wide
on March 2, 1890, the President had
this to say:
Now, to bring about government
by oligarchy-masQuerading as de-
mocracy-it is fundamentally essen
tial that practically all authority and
control be centralized in our National
Government. The individual soy
ereignty of our States must first be
destroyed, except in mere minor mat
ters of legislation We are safe from
the danger of any departure from the
principles on which this country was
founded so long as the individual
home rule of the States is scrupu-
lously preserved and fought for when
ever they seem in danger.
Thus It will be seen that this