U.S. SUPREME COURT
STRONG OPPOSITION TO PRESD3ENT
DISPUTE GROWS IN BITTERNESS (UWITED FEISS ASSOCIATIOX—COPYBKJHT.) (Received February 14, 8.28 p.m.) WASHINGTON, February 14. Distinctions, in the increasingly bitter battle between President Roosevelt and the Supreme Court were more sharply drawn to-day. Senator W. H. King (Democrat), an avowed opponent of the President's plans, after a visit to the White House with several of his colleagues in Congress, in an effort, to obtain the President's consent to a compromise, indicated that the President was determined to "re-make the Supreme Court this session of ConSr Senator Carter Glass (Democrat) announced his opposition. He declared that he would take the floor in a debate against the plan. Senator B. K. Wheeler (Democrat) is another opponent. He declared the proposals undemocratic, non-pro-gressive, and fundamentally unsound. Senator R. M. La Follette, jun. (Progressive), recognised leader of the Mid-Western Progressives, in a radio address to the nation, supported the plan and asked the people not to submit to "the forces of judiicial usurpation, which it is -withiri the constitutional powers of Congress to remedy."
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22017, 15 February 1937, Page 9
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