The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-01
BATTALION OF
 DEATH LAWYERS
Rep. Hutton of Texas Is Calling on Them to
 Organize

Kansas City, Mo, October 1 = (UP) - Representative Hatton w. Summers, Democrat, Texas, chairman of the House Judiciary Comrnittee, asked 2,O00 lawyers to join him in "a battalion of death to save the Constitution and the government"
 Summers was surprise speaker. He had been expected to discuss the Supreme Court proposal of Pres- ident Roosevelt which he was inc. strumental in killing. At 10 p. m. (l2 midnight EST) last night he mounted the speakers dais ct the annual meeting of the American Bar Association, and declared that the government had passed into the hands of c million people in its executive department, only one hav- ing been elected, which the people could not control.
 Arc YOu Willing
 "What are we going to do about it2" he demanded. T don't give g boot about big speeches. Are you willing to join Q battalion of death to save the Constitution and the gvernment?"
 , Sumeners' was one of the, strong est of number of anti New Deal speeches delivered at the bar meet- ing. During the closing days of the last session of Congress he a1- nouneed that his committee would not report President RooSevelt's Supreme Court reorganization bill to The House if it was passed by the Senate. His statement was credited with hastening the collapse of the administrators fight for 1t in the 'Senate, and the bill's defeat. !, Today the Bar Associations house of delegates considers res- olution, approved by the resolutions committee, condemning President Roosevelt's appointment of Hugo L. Black to the Supreme Court. It was one of 13 resolution approved by the committee. The house of delegates will report on 1t to the 1ull meeClng Friday.
 Birth of Dictators
 Summers told the lawyers that dictators sprang up when people turned their backs on their gov- ernmentS and let somebody run 1t for them" Our government, he continued, Is rapidly changing into the "rule of the million" although 1t is preserving its form to outward appearance.
 "As we look to the future, we are rapidly approaching a crisis when 1t will be decided whether our eco- nesnic system and our government will stand or fall," he said.
 T mean actually. A very serious situation is before the people. It means we have got to do something socn. We have got to balance the budget. We have got to decentralize governmental responsibility.
 ~Cnly the greatest people who ever walked on earth can save my nAhion and yours. The nation Is in tho hands of the people. You can tsar down the Capital and tear up the Constitution. '.
 Governments Not Accidental
 Governments are not accidents. Anglo-Saxcn history has been free Of tiictators because the Anglo Saxons have developed Q genius for detecting emergencies and moving rapddly to meet them. We have never had 6 Hitler or Mussolini in Anglo-Saxon government because we have always followed principles, not leaders.
 Robert Lee TulliS of Baton Rouge, La., presented the Black resolution. It said membership in g secret, oath-bound order, actuated by re- ligiots and racial aninosity, is i1- compatible with membership in the Supreme Court. It suggested that a cofiaimttee of five from the Bar Association investigate "the rele- want facts" of Justice Blacks ap- pointment.
 The resolutions committee dis proved of only one of the IA original proposals one that denounced s'hairline" decisions of tl.e Supreme Court. It had suggested that unar1- imous, or nearly unanimous decis- ions of the court be necessary to de- clare an act of Congress unconsti- tlitional.