Evening star., 1937-07-07

Senator suddenly declined to be ques.
toned any further and sat down, say.
ing, Il yield the floor" Nor woulc
he answer any further questions.
Senator Logan of Kentucky wa!
recognized one of the sponsors OF tn,
compromise substitute. He immedi.
ately said that he would welcome in.
terruptions during the course of hi!
speech. He had hardly gotten under
way before Senator Wheeler ane
Senator Burke began to work on him
Logan said that some of the Sena.
tors. among them Wheeler and Burke
IN the past had declared that ther.
was something wrong with the Su.
preme Court. He said that all thu
witnesses who appeared before tn,
Senate Judiciary Committee also sale
there was something wrong with tn.
Supreme Court.
If there is something wrong with
the Supreme Court" said Logan. 81
reason that something should be don't
about it."
Logan said that during his campaign
for election he had declared his in.
tention to support President Roosevelt
ana when the President made hi.
recommendations about the court he
decided to support them.
When you referred to the testimony
given by witnesses before the judiciary
Committee. opposing the court bill,
said Burke, you said they said some
thing was wrong with the Supreme
Court. What you meant was that they
said they had disagreed with some
OF the decisions Of the Supreme Court
as for example, Ray Moley"
Logan admitted he was speaking
rhetorically and that what he meant
was that there was something wrong
with the decisions of the Supreme
Court
AssaiIs Removal Talk.
Senator Wheeler interrupted.
L have on many occasions criticized
some of the decisions of the Supreme
Court" he said. Il have criticized
decisions Of the Supreme Court OF
Montana and as every lawyer who has
tried case has done, I have criticized
decisions of the inferior courts. But
never has it occurred to me to suggest
that the judge who handed down an
opinion with which disagreed should
be removed from the bench and that
some judge who would at all times de-
eide as believed should be appointed
In his place
Il am in a different position from
that of the Senator from Kentucky,
who was elected solely because he was
100 per cent for President Roosevelt,
and rode in on his coat tails I told
my audiences during the campaign that
l had at times disagreed with the
President And now you would drive
men off the bench whom you don't like
and humiliate them.
No one has suggested that any one
shall be removed from the court nor
that he be Inundated" reported Logan.
In fact this bill allows the aged and
perhaps inflrm to stay on the bench" :"
I am saying to the Senator now
said Wheeler, that the aoministra-
ton people wanted six men on the
Supreme Court whom they could trust.
That is the issue, and you can't get
away from it. They wanted to make
the Supreme Court subservient."
Wheeler said that the Attorney
General and the Assistant Attorney
General had admitted as much. This
Logan waved aside. Wheeler promised
to be even more specific later In the
debate.
The Senator from Montana is
threatening to throw dead cats" said
Logan. L never throw dead cats,
but am not afraid OF them"
Says Legal Rights Denied.
In his prepared address Guffey said
that unquestionably the court was con.