The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-01-20
Reed Appointed
To Take Justice
Sutherland,s Seat
Sutherland Retired Tuesday
Senate To Confirm Kentucky
Mans Appointment.

Mans Appointment.
|. Washington, Jan. 15.-A clear
majority of administration support
ers on the Supreme court appeared
assured today when President Roos-
evelt nominated Solicitor General
Stanley Reed, veteran defender
. of new deal enactments, to succeed
retiring Justice George Sutherland
Senators, who, must pass upon
the nomination, generally applaud
ed the selection of the bald-headed
Kentucky lawyer and dairyman.
Even some bitter foes of the Presi-
dents defeated bill to reorganized
the high tribunal joined in express
ing approval.
But there were numerous de-
mands that public hearings be con-
Quoted before the senate votes on
the appointment, in view of the
public furore caused by belated
revelations that Justice Hugo L.
Black, President Roosevelt's only
other nominee to the court, once
was a member of the Ku Klux
Khan.
1t was apparent that the nominal
ton had better chance of being
confirmed quickly than if it had in
volved the name of someone whose
/ known views were more radical
than Reeds. Commencing the chief
executives choice, Senator Burke,
Democrat, Nebraska, leader of the
fight against the court bill, told re-
porters:
Il would place Mr.. Reed in the
same class in which I place myself
"a progre asive-conservative He
has all the qualifications to make an
out-tanding judge"
The 53-year-old nominee has de-
Tended administration measures
forcefully before the Supreme
court, first as counsel for the Re-
construction Finance corporation
and later as solicitor general
He has contended in public adj
dresses that the fexibility of the
constitution makes it "as adequate
for the problems of today as time
has shown it has been adequate to
meet the difficulties of the past"
Administration men count on the
nomination to assure Roosevelt
measures generally the support of
at least five of the courts nine
members in the future. Four pres
ent members of the court-Justices
! Brandeis, Cardozo, Stone and
Black-have favored most admins
tration enactmentis in the past.
Chief Justice Hughes and Justice
Roberts also have upheld Roosevelt
measures in number of instances,
notably the Wagner labor act
masses decided April IL, 1887.
Justice Sutherland, member OF
the court group which has voted
most often against the new deal,
has announced his retirement, eff
fective next Tuesday. If confined,
Reed therefore could take his place
on the court Immediately after that
date.
Since Justice Cardozo is gravely
ill of a heart ailment, some persons
in the capital believe he also will
retire shortly and that the Presi-
dent thus will have an opportunity
to make third appointment. This
would go long way toward Civ
ing him the number of appoint
ments he sought by his court re-
organization bill. reAi'r .ae4i
At. the time that measure was
proposed, it would have permitted
the President to name six addition
al justices in event that incumbents
past 70 years of age refused to re-
tire.
Reed, Democrat, never has held
a judicial position. He practiced
law for many years, however, first
| privately in Kentucky and in the
federal service since 1929, when
Herbert Hoover appointed him
counsel for the farm board.