EXCESSIVE POWER.
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT (United Press Association— Copyright) WASHING lON, February 15 Senator Sherman Minton, in a radio address, urged the nation to support President Roosevelt's plan to change the personnel of tb' Supreme Com t Bench, to '"restore tno balance of gov ernment which was thrown out and killed by five of the present membeis of the Supreme Court.” He asserted that live justices under the present system had more power than tie President and Congress combined. Senator Carter Glass, in an interview, criticised the address of the At-torney-General (Mr Homer S. Cummings), supporting the President, as evasive, disinteguous, and misleading. “I ithink that it indicates that the country is in'infinitely greater need of an attorney-general than-of additional justices or judicial wet-nurses for six of the present justices.” Senator W. G. McAdoo will defend the plan in a radio address on Tuesday night, and Senator J. F. Byrnes on Wednesday. The President is ready to use one of his famous radio ‘‘fireside chats” if necessary.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 109, 18 February 1937, Page 10
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