AMERICAN SUPREME COURT

Evening Star, Issue 22573, 15 February 1937, Page 9

AMERICAN SUPREME COURT

THE PRESIDENT'S PROPOSALS INCREASING OPPOSITION Pr«w ’Awociation—By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, February 14. Alignments in an increasingly bitter battle between President Roosevelt and the Supreme Court were more sharply drawn to-day. Senator King, an avowed opponent, after a visit to White House with several Congressional colleagues in ■an effort to obtain the President’s consent to a compromise, indicated that President Roosevelt was determined to “remako” the court this session of Congress. Senator Glass announced his opposition, and declared that he would take the floor in the debate against the plan/ also Senator Wheeler, who declared that the proposals were undemocratic, non-progressive, and fundamentally unsound.

Senator La Follette, the recognised leader in the Mid-western Progressives, in s radio message to the nation, supported the plan and asked the people not to submit to “ forces of judicial usurpation which it is within the constitutional powers of Congress to remedy.”