COURT REFORM

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20680, 19 March 1937, Page 9

COURT REFORM

AMERICAN JUDGE’S OBSERVATIONS United Presfe Association —By tt'prtric Telegraph- Copvrtßht (Received March 18, 7.25 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 17. As the result of the speech by Mr Justice J. C. Mcßeynolds, the opponents of the Roosevelt Judiciary proposals have renewed their efforts to persuade at least three justices to testify their views before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Meanwhile Mr Justice Mcßeynolds said he was unaware the reporters were present at the banquet. None of the members of the House of Representatives or the Senate expressed any objection to Mr Justice Mcßeynolds’s action, but he seemed to regret that the speech would be interpreted as an abandonment of the Supreme Court's traditional aloofness to political questions.

Although he did not mention Mr Roosevelt’s proposals, Mr Justice J. C. Mcßeynolds, of the United States Supreme Court bench, addressing a small audience at a fraternity banquet, deplored the complaints of losers in Court actions. He said that evidence of good sportsmanship would be the acceptance of the outcome of a fair tribunal. “Thousands and thousands of things come before the Court, and are settled to the general satisfaction," he stated. “I would like to believe in the courage of the American people and I hope they will find a solution of which they may be proud.” Mr Justice Mcßeynolds is the first member of the Court to express views on the relationship of the Court with the Government, since Mr Roosevelt advanced his proposals for reform of the judiciary.