Evening star., 1937-02-26
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

L. Doughton. Democrat, Of North Caro-
lima. who will be "a next November. Mr.
Taylor has had Is consecutive terms in
Congress; Mr.. Doughton. IA. The father
Of the House, Representative SABBATH,
Democrat, Of Illinios, who will be II in
April, has been elected for 16 terms
without break, tenure to date of 80
successive years.
Representative Edith Nourse Rogers,
Republican, Of Massachusetts, empha-
sizes that her bill to make foreign born
citizens ineligible to appointment to the
Supreme Court is not aimed at the nom
native on that bench-Associate Justice
Sutherland, who was born in England.
But If the Rogers bill should become
law, it would eliminate at least two men
in the forefront ST those who figure
among President Rosevelt's possible Sc
lections for new justiceships-Prof. Felix
Frankfurter Of Harvard Law School, who
was born in Austria, and Senator Robert
F. Wagner, Democrat, Of New York, a
native Of Germany.
That day is hardly worth counting in
these times which doesn't witness the
launching of some organization formed
to fight the Presidents judiciary plan.
In New York City there is a League
Opposed to Remaking the Supreme
Court" One of its special committees
has developed that because a vacancy
in the local Federal courts was permitted
to exist for more than a year, serious
congestion, since relieved, occurred in
their calendars. The league contends
that while New York Federal judges were
struggling to ameliorate the situation,
Washington did nothing to help them
Representations to this effect have just
been sent to the President, the Attorney
General and members of Congress. At
Safety, non-partisan organization OF the
country's young lawyers, has just been
launched for the purpose of opposing the
judiciary bill. John Francis Goldsmith,
alumnus of Lafayette College, is the
prime mover in the enterprise. He has
christened its central organizing COM
mittee "the Nine Young Men" Sub
committees have been formed through
out Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Della
ware, Maryland and Louisiana. Mr..
Goldsmith expects the movement to as
sumo coast-to-coast dimensions.
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Uncle Sam has so much silver on hand
that the Treasury now plans to establish
silver depository similar to the huge
gold vault at Fort Knox, KY. The Fed
eral silver pile is worth about 81 .900, ,000,-
000-over a billion of it in bullion, the
rest in silver dollars and small coin.
Storage Of the silver, 1t is estimated,
would take eight times the space re-
quired to house the Nations gold, which
now amounts to $11, ,400. 900, 900. That's
more than the whole world possessed in
1929.
Probably no detection from Roose-
veltian standards on the court issue
brings greater anguish in high places
than that Of Senator Edward r. Burke,
Democrat, Of Nebraska. It was Senator
Burke's terse and eloquent apotheosis
of the New Deal that President RooSe-
welt in 1884 acclaimed as the best cpl
tome of It extant
Power" is the title of play just pro-
duced by the Living Newspaper unit OF
the Federal Theater Project in New York
City. It deals broadly with problems
connected with T. v. A. and the power
issue in general. Reviewers describe the
drama, Of which Arthur Aren't Is the
author, as . vigorous crusade for the
people against industrial rapacity and