The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-18
SENATOR GLASS
 VOICES OPINION
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ing to ask Black to resign from the court"
 No Right To Demand
 The belief was reflected in usual ly well-informed capital sources. It was pointed out that the president would have no right to demand Blacks resignation. At the same time, statements were issued by the Republican National committee, de- ploring the chief executives "diffi- cult problem" and by Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Liberty League, saying 1t was incredible that the president was not fam liar with the popular listing" of Black as e Klan member.
 Glass, who voted against the con- firmation of Black, said that he did not consider the charges grounds for impeachment.
 "If there was to be an investiga- ton, 1t should have been made be- fore Senator Black was confirmed ' he said. "What's the use of inves- tigating now2"
 q voted against confirmation be- cause I thought he was utterly un- fit for the position"
 Politics Says COnnally
 Sen. Tom Connally, D., Tex, en- tered the controversy by saying that there was no power to remove Black except through resort to "improb- able" Impeachment proceedings.
 Connally said that the furore was politics an effort to embarrass the president" and that MT. Roose- welt ought not to be expected to undertake to influence 0 member of the court by putting pressure on him to resign"
 Meanwhile, the final installment of the "expose" of the Pittsburg Post Gazette, copyrighted, like the others, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, which started the entire controversy, presented the affidavitS of persons who said they had attended the state co.'s vention of the Alabama Ku KluX Klan in 1928 and saw Justice Black and the present Governor of Ala bama, Bibb Graves, receive "gold passports"-life memberships in the Klan. The affidaVits were given by Alabamans who asserted that they were former KlanSmen.
 Kelly Letter Ignored
 Although the proposal of Sen Burton K. Wheeler, D., Montp for Q Senate investigation of the case ap- peared to have considerable sup. port, 1t was said in Well-infornied circles that a letter written to the supreme court by Patrick Henry Kelly, Boston lawyer, demanding that Black be barred until an in' quiry had been made by e commit- tee of lawyers, probably would bC ignored by the high tribunal.
 The Kelly letter has no legal sta' tus before the court, and 1t was in' dicated that Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and his associates would permit it to go unnoticed.
 "As Americans" the Republican National committee said in a state' ment by Chairman John Hamilton i've must all hope that MT. Roose- welt will be successful in finding solution of this difficult problem compatible at once with the dignity of the supreme court and of hii own high office"
 Black Still Silent
 London, Sept. ie-tUP)-Asso- ciate Justice Hugo L. Black of the U. s. Supreme Court remained firm today in his refusal to either con- firm or deny allegations that he is a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
 He told reporters T don't know you, I don't see you and I don't hear you."
 Black and his wife attended a performance of Victoria Regina" last night and returned to their hotel to find numerous additional written pleas from newspapermen for an interview. He ignored them