Evening star., 1937-08-21
GUFFEY'S CUSTER
FROM CAMPAIGN
BODY DEMANDED
Wheeler and O'Mahoney
Take Senate Floor to An
SWer Radio Attack.
PENNSYLVANIA ALSO
HAD ASSAILEO BURKE
hontanan Declares Guffey Was
Afraid" to Deliver Speech
on Floor.

Senator's Wheeler, Democrat, of
Montana and O'Mahoney. Democrat
of Wyoming shouted defiance in the
Senate today of threats from Senator
Guf1ey, Democrat, OF Pennsylvania to
defeat them and called for removal of
the Pennsylvania as head of the
Democratic Senatorial Campai ign Com
mittee
The two Senators, who opposed the
Roosevelt court bill took the Senate
floor at the outset of today's session to
reply to the speech last night by
Guf1ey.
The sleek, well-dressed PENNSYLVANIA
Senator sat quietly in his rear-row
seat while Wheeler and OMahoney
turned toward him shouting their
wrathful denunciations. He smiled a
little when Wheeler promised to in
wade Pennsylvania to campaign AGAINST
hIm Tor election as Governor OF the
Keystone State.
OMahoney interrupted Wheeler to
assert that if he had the power he
would not change a word. or a line
or vote OF his record. In ringing
voice, he told Guffey that Guffev had
not harmed the Senat tors he had men,
toned, but the Democratic party.
The three Guf1ey mentioned prin-
cipally were O'Mahoney, Wheeler and
Senator Burke, Democrat. of Nebraska
He predicted the defeat of OMshonev
and Burke and said Wheeler would
have plenty OF explaining to do
before 1910.
Shouts al Guffey.
O'Mahoney, turning TO face Gufrey
shouted at him:
The sooner we get that man re-
moved from the position he occupies
now the better it will be for the Demo-
cratic party"
Wheeler had obtained the Senate
moor rs soon As . quorum was as
Sembled. He started of by asserting
that Guffey had not written the
speech ne delivered on the radio and
that he was afraid" 10 deliver the
speech on the Senate floor.
Wheeler won the floor TO reply to
Guf1ey despite point OF order aised
by Senator La Toilette. Progressive of
Wisconsin. BY voice vote the SEN
ate shouted down the objection and
permitted Wheeler to proceed.
WheelerS remarks on the floor came
while quiet movement got underway
unonlcially to depose Gut1ey from the
chairmanship of the Democratic Sem
atorial Campaign Committee.
Bitter Feeling Aroused.
His demand that Senators who op-
posed President Roosevelt's court re-
organization be defeated aroused bitter
1eellng IN the ranks of the opponents,
ana precipitated one of the most ex-
plosive political situations this session
has known-just 4 few hours before
adjournment time
Wheeler told the Senate:
Il feel highly honored that the
Senator from Pennsylvania should
have singled me out as one OF three
members Of the Senate for the pur-
pose Of broa dcssting a speech last
evening that every one knows he didn't
write and that every one knows he
wouldn't dare to deliver on the noor
OF the Senate because he knows he
would have to yield to answer ques-
tions"
Burke Makes Appeal.
Meanwhile. Senator Burke. one OF
the administra tons most outSpoken
Democratic critics, asked the Nation
today TO permit no future attack"
on the independence Of our courts"
He made the request In = radio
speech.
Burke, discussing chiefly farm and
labor problems, touched only briefly
on the court question and made no
(see GUFFEY, Page A-3.)