SENATE WINS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 65, 19 March 1925, Page 5

SENATE WINS

CONSTITUTIONAL BATTLE

MR WARREN WITHDRAWS

PRESIDENT'S SUBSTITUTE ACCEPTED. iuiJl

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPIRIOBI.)

(iUSTSALUN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) WASHINGTON, 17th March.

President Coolidge has nominated Mr. John Sargent, his old personal friend, and the former Attorney-General of the State of Vermont, to be Attorney-Gene-ral in place of Mr. C. B. Warren, whose nomination the Senate twice rejected. Mr. Sargent is expected to receive the Senate's confirmation without opposition. Mr. Sargent's nomination was sent to the. Senate shortly after the President had announced that Mr. Warren declined to.accept his offer of appointment during the Congressional recess. Senators Curtis and Robinson, the Republican and Democratic leaders, called at White Housfe to inquire whether the Presidenthad further business to lay before the Senate. The President replied by dispatching the nomination of Mr. :Sargent, thus ending the bitter controversy which has waged for the past week between himself and the Senate over Mr. Warren's nomination. . The Senate is expected to adjourn on 18th March, after the routine confirmation of Mr. Sargent's name.

It is now disclosed that' President Coolidge definitely offered Mr. Warren appointment in the recess, by a letter dated 16th March. Mr. Warren wrote in reply declining the offer. He said he deeply appreciated the President's confidence, but felt that his withdrawal would prove of public service, and be beneficial both to President Coolidge and to the Republican Party. The general feeling is that a combination of circumstances prompted the President to abanI don the fight, first because Mr. Warren j intimated that he did not wish to accept a recess appointment, and secondly because Mr. Coolidge did not wigh to insist that Mr. "Warren should take such an appointment. It is indicated at White House that the President believed Mr. Warren would have accepted had he insisted on his doing so. Now the smoke of battle has cleared away it is evident that the Senate has won a decisive victory over President Coolidge, who has sustained his first defeat since assuming office as President. Later. The Senate confirmed Mr. Sargent's appointment without a dissenting vote.