U.S.A. AFFAIRS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 February 1937, Page 7

U.S.A. AFFAIRS

/ COURTS REFORM SCHEME (BY CABLE —PBESS ABBN.—COPYRIGHT.] WASHINGTON, February 19. As informal polls show that the fate of President Roosevelt’s judicial programme is likely to hang on the decision of less than a dozen senators, the forces supporting the President have intensified tlieir efforts to ensure its passage. The President called four opposing senators to the White House, and told" them in consultation that he regarded his re-election as a mandate to enact the New Deal proposals, which were impossible under the Supreme Court as it was constituted at present. The Labour Non-Partisan League has sent a letter to each member o£ Congress, informing him that the league expects every liberal and progressive member to support the President. CROP INSURANCE WASHINGTON, February 18. President Roosevelt, in a special iriessage to Congress, has asked for the enactment of measures providing for crop insurance and storage. He contends that, because economic and social reforms are essentially national in scope and administration, the Federal Government must have power to insure crops and to organise a system of storage and reserves, so that surpluses in good years may be carried over for use in bad years.