JUDICIARY PLAN
HEARING OF EVIDENCE
WASHINGTON, February 22.
The Senate Judiciary Committee an^ nounced today that it would start hearings on the Supreme Court reform measure on March 9. Congressional leaders predict that at least two) months will intervene before the Senate votes upon the subject.
Senator E. R. Burke, in a radip address, termed the plan "an insidious attack on the Federal Judiciary."
Mrs. E. N. Rogers has introduced a resolution in the House limiting Supreme Court membership to nativeborn citizens of the United' States, thus barring Professor F. Frankfurter and Mr. R. F. Wagner, who are both mentioned as likely Roosevelt appointees.
The American Youth representatives who have been demonstrating outside the White House, with a single dissenting vote adopted a resolution endorsing President Roosevelt's Judiciary, plan, and then adjourned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1937, Page 11
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