WITHIN POWERS OF CONGRESS
President’s Proposal
SPEECH BY A FORMER JUSTICE American Supreme Court By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received March 23, 8.10 p.m.) > New York, March 23. Judge John Clarke, the only living former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, in a radio address on the purely legal question of President Roosevelt's judiciary proposal, said the number of justices bad been changed seven times by Act of Congress. Few, if any, of the important powers of Congress bad been exercised so early or so often, he said. That power had never before been questioned. The President’s proposal plainly was within the powers granted Congress, he added.
John Hessin Clarke, a doctor of laws of Brown University, was admitted to the Ohio Bar in IS7B. He was United States district judge for the northern district of Ohio from 1914 to 1910, and an associate justice of the Supreme Court from July 14, 1916, to September, 1922, when he resigned in order to give his entire time to cultivating public opinion favourable to world peace. He is unmarried.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 152, 24 March 1937, Page 11
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