Evening star., 1939-08-08
Roosevelt Tolls
On 200 Bills at
Hyde Park
Claims Victory for
Court Plan Before
Leaving Capital
(Tert OF court statement and
picture on page A-4)

(Tert OF court statement and
picture on page A-4)
BY the Associated Press.
HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. g.
President Roosevelt arrived here at
8:24 am. today and motored to his
country home to spend several DAYS
working on stack of some 200 bills
passed in the closing days of Con-
gress.
Aside from a press conference.
White House officials said Mr.. Roose-
welt had made no engagements for
the day.
The President was expected to re-
main at his Dutchess County home
at least until Saturday. Afterward
he planned to go to New York and
board the cruiser Tuscaloosa for a
cruise of the New England and Ca
madam coasts.
Mrs. Roosevelt met her husband
at the station and rode with him to
their family home.
Claims All Court Objectives.
Before leaving Washington short
ly after II o'clock last night, the
President had issued a statement
claiming fulfillment of all the OBJ
Jectives of his 1897 court reorgani-
zation program
Attacks recently made on the
Supreme Court itself by ultra con.
servatlve members of the bar indi.
cate how fully our liberal ideas
have already prevailed" the state
ment said.
The Presidents comment, recall
ing the bitter controversy over
his defeated proposal to enlarge
the Supreme Court if justices over
10 did not retire, was occasioned bv
his signing of bill which created
an administrative officer to over.
see affairs of all Federal courts.
Ihat measure was one of seven
parts OF his original proposal, which
split Democratic ranks in Congress.
and created Nationwide argument
Six OF the parts have been enacted
into law, Mr.. Roosevelt said, and
| added that the 7th has been &C.
complished through the Supreme
Court itself"
The country is naturally con-
| cerned with the attainment OF
proper objectives rather than any
one of many possible methods pro-
posed for the accomplishment OF
the end" the Presidents S statement
| continued.
Reform Held Impeded.
Il called attention 1.-TWO and a
half years ago. to the unwarranted
attitude of the Supreme Court with
reference to the exercise of it's
constitutional powers. Measures Of
social and economic reform were
being impeded or defeated by mar
! row interpretations of the Consti-
tuition, and by the assumption on
the part of the Supreme Court of
legislative powers which properly
belonged to the Congress.
1T is true that the precise method,
which I recommended, was not
adopted, but the objective, as every
person in the United States knows
today, was achieved The results
are not even open to dispute
Since the Senate killed his Su-
preme Court bill just two years ago,
Mr.. Roosevelt has appointed four
justices to the tribunal, and Con-
1,ro llyy hoe or,fpari1nA r.
ministrative changes in the Federal
Court system to speed up its work.
The Presidents statement listed
these changes as follows:
Appointment of 2o additional Fed
eral judges, with a wly-approved
bill authorizing five more CThe
congested dockets and the delay"
the President said, have been al
ready almost eliminated
Provision for reassigning judges
more readily to areas where the
courts were behind in their work.
Right to Intervene Obtained.
Giving the Attorney General the
right to intervene in private cases
involving constitutiopality of Fed
eral laws, and placing limitations
on issuing lower court injunctions in
such cases.
Authorizing direct and immediate
appeal to the Supreme Court of
cases involving constitutionality of
Federal laws, with these cases get
ting precedence over all others.
Extending to Supreme Court JUS
tices retirement privileges on full
pay after they have reached the
age OF 10 and have served 10 years.
Appointment of an administrative
officer so the Federal judiciary can
oversee its own dockets and expedite
its own affairs.
Mr.. Roosevelt did not mention any
names in referring to ultra con-
servative members of the bar" who
have criticized the Supreme Court
since his appointments were made,
but it was recalled that Frank j.
Hogan of Washington, president of
the American Bar Association, said
in a speech at San Francisco early
in the summer:
Recent far-reaching decisions
(of the Supreme CourD compel the
conclusion that the American people
must look to the legislature rather
than the judiciary for the preserva-
ton of liberties"
AS he issued the statement, Mr..
Roosevelt concluded a busy day
signing bills which Congress en-
acted during its closing week.
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