SECOND REBUFF

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 64, 18 March 1925, Page 7

SECOND REBUFF

TO PRESIDENT COOLIDGE

SENATE REJECTS NOMINEE

BY INCREASED MAJORITY.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRHIffr.)

(AUSTRALIAN-SEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) WASHINGTON, 16th March.

The Senate to-day rejected for the second time the nomination of Mr. Charles B. Warren as Attorney-General. President Coolidge hastened another defeat in the sensationally bitter personal controversy between him and the Senate when the latter again rejected the nomination of Mr. Charles B. Warren as Attorney-General, throwing back on White House for the second time in n week the President's personal choice of a member of his own Cabinet.

The Senate's action is a direct chalenge to President Coolidge to fulfil his threat to give Mr. Warren a recess appointment in defiance of the Senate's advice and consent.

Tho vote was 46 to 39 against the confirmation o£ the appointment, compared with a vote of 41 to 39 taken on the 10th inst. Included in to-day's division m addition to the Democratic bloc totalling 35, were 10 Republicans and i. farmer-Labourite, the heavier vote against Mr. Warren on this occasion being duo to tho presence of Democratic Senators who had not voted previously. ' - The vote followed four hours' acrimoniousdebate which, by agreement, was divided equally between the proponents and opponents, and in which no Senator was allowed to speak for more than thirty minutes. Crowded galleries |wd an interested audience' closely followed the contest.

PREVIOUS SCANDALS Senator Gillett. himself a Republican warned the Senate that it was not so popular with the people that it could afford to risk a conflict with the President, who had been elected by the greatest popular vote in history On the other hand, Senator Borah while admitting that it is true that the benete had in the past permitted the president to name a Cabinet without taterfersfnee, claimed this constituted dereliction of duty on the part of the .Senate which ought to be ended, pointing out scandals in the Department of Justice during the Daugherty administration as a support for the argument that the Senate should have a voice in the selection of th fi members of the Cabinet. He justified plain home talk in the Senate and the action those memfrors who were attacking the stand taken by President Coolidge and who wnre r-ondemninj: his attitude by means of a resolution. •

Tt wus stated in some quarters that the Senate is prepared to continue the session indefinitely in order to defeat President Coolidge's proposed plan to 2>ve Mr. Warren a recess appointment because if the Senate is sitting there is •>othin X to prevent President Coolidee from submitting the name of a further nominoo.

Meantime, the Administration leaders nave been conferring with President Coolidge and Mr. Warren, who in a-•week-end cuest at White Housb ..-.,•:.'.. The President's next move is awaited with interest.