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THIE SUsv.a DAk, _WASHINGION, D. €, MARCH 14, 1937—PART ONE. HOFFMAN PRESSES AMENDMENT PLAN Says Administration Pro- gram Indicates Distrust of People. BY the Associs‘ed Press. TRENTON, N. J., March 13—Gov. Hoffman, urging that any limitation of the Supreme Court's powers be sub- mitted to the people as a constitu- tional question, declared today that ~ the administration program “indicates | obvious distrust dict.” “To be right and to keep faith with 130,000,000 Americans are more es- sential than the quick resuscitation of the blue eagle,” he telegraphed Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Democrat of ‘Wyoming, who had asked support for ratification of a constitutional amend- ment of the people’s ver- . Betrayal of Constituents. “No member of Congress can vote | the proposed changes in the court | ‘without betrayal of his constituents,” the Governor said Ge e Congress and of individual members transcends party or personal alleg ance. “I hold with you that mandate did not and does not extend to fundamental changes in our o ganic law as here involved. I insist with you that this matter must be submitted to the people. With you, I am willing to trust the people’s ver- dict.” Two-thirds Vote Urged. Senator O'Mahoney has proposed an amendment which would bar the holding of any Federal or State law unc itut 1 by any court unless “two-thirds of the members there shall specifically and by separate opin- so beyond a reasonable Hoffman telegraphed him. “I shall be glad to co-operate in providing for consideration by convention of such amendment or amendments as may be | proposed and submitted.” COLLEGE MEN INDORSE SUPREME COURT PLAN — “Model Um‘e(l Representing States Senate™ 22 Schools Votes 40 to 34. 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Adame 8377, Bvenings, Clev, 5646, [ » The responsibility of the | | ments are submitted for ratification | voters should be allowed to pass di- | the election President Roosevelt and me in a new and especially posed cabinet room at the White Hous Left to right: The Preside: mbers of his cabinet, photo, taken in the e nt, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Attorney General Cummings, Secretary of the Navy Swanson, Secretary of Agricul- ture Wallace, Secretary of Labor Perkins, Vice President Ganzer Secretary of Commerre Roper, Secretary nl the Interior Ickes, Postmaster General Farley, Secre- tary of War Woodring and Secretary of State Hull. —Underwood & Underwood Photo. Judiciary _ (Continued From First Page.) fiery opponent of the President’s court h 1. it was announced last night, will d er a Nation-wide radio address on | March 29, attacking the measure. He speak over the chain of the | lumbia Broadcasting Co. It will md major radio address. delivered during the | 19 n support of the candidacy of President Roosevelt, an he was answered by the then Secret of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Senator Glass w m 10 to 11 p.m. Ash t a very long list of p en him asking to be heard in opposition to bill. He has al ist of se who de- Included t, he said, are six or £ tes, a half 1 or mor of law college of farm and labor organizations, among the I being William Gree president of American Federation of Labor, and John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for Industrial Or- ganization. The Governors who may wish to be heard are Olin D. Johnston of South | Carolina, George H. Earle of Penn- sylvania, Leslie Jensen of South Da- | | kota, Henry Horner of Illinois, Frank | Murphy of Michigan, Philip La Fol- | | lette of “l&ronah and A. B. Chandler | ‘ | Cc the fact that other more or less at a standstill while the Supreme Court issue is up, the Senate Judiciary Committee will not ho! its regular weekly meeting tomorrow. More and more dent that the legis- on a dispo- sition of the court bill Johnson to Oppose Bill. satisfied that Senator Glass is take to the air and deliver a in opposition to the Supreme proposal, leaders of the oppo- sition said last night that before long Senator Hiram Johnson of California would also come forward with an ad- dress to the country against the bill. In holding that the support of the President’s bill has reached its peak, the opponents of the measure point Court |to the fact that within the last 10 days President Roosevelt himself has twice spoken to the country for the measure, and that the principal advo- | cates of the change outside of the | | President, Attorney General Cum- | mings and Assistant Attorney Gen- | | eral Robert H. Jackson, have bolh‘ | made extended arguments in ra\'m" |of revamping the Sypreme Court. | The opponents feel that their day in court is yet to come, and they intend to make the most of it An argument made by the Presi- dent and his supporters in favor of | his plan to increase the membership | of the Supreme Court is that it is | both quick and sure, and that a con- | stitutional amendment would take a {long time and would not be sure. | Senator Lonergan of Connecticut, | who has not yet com-\ mitted himself for cr against the | President’s plan, is pressing for fa- vorable action on his resolution pro- viding thai hereafter constitutional amendments shall be ratified by pop- ular elections. He issued a statement last night saying that his plan, which has al- ready been introduced in the Senate, is being seriously considered by Sena- tors who are studying possible alter- natives or permanent solution of objeotions made to the present pro- cedure under which proposed amend- to the State Legislatures or to con- stitutional conventions in the States. Lonergan .believes that the 45,000,000 rectly upon all constitutional amend- ments. Ratification would rest upon majority votes of the electors in three- fourths of the States. Roosevelt Speech Cited. Opponents of the plan yesterday brought forth excerpts from one of the President’s radio speeches while he was Governor of New York to show that he was once a stanch defender of States from encroachment by the Federal Government. In a speech broadcast Nation wide on March 2, 1930, the President had this to say: “Now, to bring about government by oligarchy—masquerading as de- mocracy—it is fundamentally essen- tial that practically all authority and control be centralized in our National Government. The individual sov- ereignty of our States must first be destroyed, except in mere minor mat- ters of legislation. We are safe from the danger of any departure from the principles on which this country was founded so long as the individual home rule of the States is scrupu- lously preserved and fought for when= ever they seem in danger. “Thus # will be seen that this ‘ N | was he, (Clark Sees Court Plan Akin To Forerunners of Dictators 3 | | Cites Events Leading to Rises of Hitler and Huey Long. By the Associated Prass. K4 AS CITY, March 13.—Sen- ator Bennett Champ Clark, Democrat, of Missouri drew a parallel tonight between the Roosevelt plan for Su- preme Court reorganization and the forerunners of the Hitler dictatorship in Germany and the Huey Long regime in Louisiana Declaring, in a broadcast speech before a Kansas City audience, his personal loyalty to President Roosevelt and his adherence to the Democratic party, the senior Missouri Senator went on “Who devised the means by Hitler attained his present dictator- ship? Hitler? By no means “The machinery was put into effect by Chancellor Bruening, who preceded | him as a high-minded executive. It not Hitler, who instituted government by decree and thus en- slaved the German people and de- prived them of their rights.” In similar fashion, Clark said, Huey | Long achieved his lutism by use of a constitutional change enacted through the efforts of his predecessor, Gov. Parker. In effect, he said, the Parker action au- thorized the Louisiana Legislature to resolve itself into a constitutional con- vention and adopt amendments with- out submission to the people. Controlled Judiciary. it to be disputed,” the Sena- “that Huey tor | brought the judicial as well as the legislative and executive branches of the State under his control. “And then, one of the first things | Long did was to jam through legis- lation to destroy effectually the free- dom of the press guaranteed by the Constitution. This incursion against the Constitution and our liberties was thwarted by the unanimous decision of ‘nine old men’ sitting as the Su- preme Court of the United States. “And our independent judiciary has always been the protection of the | liberties of the individual and the minorities.” Clark invoked caution against any hasty departure from traditional checks and balances in the govern- mental structure, protesting particu- |larly against what he called “pack- | ing” the Supreme Court “for a par- ticular purpose.” Louisiana abso- | Long's empire | did not become complete until he had | which SENATOR CLARK. He denied assertions of proponents of the Roosevelt plan that there was any mandate from the electorate at HAPSBURG RETURN Schuschnigg Believed Going to Budapest and Rome to Seek Plan. BACKGROUND— Defeat of central powers in World War resulted in break-up of old Austro-Hungarian empire—separa- tion of Austria and Hungary and division of large parts of their ter- ritories among succession states Austria has ezisted as a repub- lic since war, with understanding that it was not to receive back a Hapsburg monarchy. Hungary re- mained kingdom under its old con- stitution, but is ruled by a regent, Admiral Horthy, Periodic agitations have occurred in past 19 Years fo rerturn of Hapsburgs to either Austria or Hungary or both. Archduke Otto is present pretender to throme. BY the Associated Press the last election for the change re- quested by the President | Recalling that he was chairman of the Rules Committee at the last Democratic National Convention, he | said he advocated adoption of the | party platform which he described a< | “dictated, every jot and tittle of it,” | by the President. | He quoted the platform language seitlement of the problems for which | the court change has been urged: | “If these problems cannot be effec- tively solved by legislation * * * we shall seek clarifying amendments | * * * in order to adequately regulate commerce and safeguard economic se- | [Ecurity. ks Lauds President’s Purposes. Of President Roosevelt he said: “His splendid purposes and his high ideals do not justify the necessity of changing the whole fabric of our Gov- ernment to meet a temporary situa- tion. Of his high ideals I have no doubt whatever. * * * I believe this question transcends all partisanship.” Clark gave this as his definition of the issue now before the country: “Has the time come when, in our national life, Congress shall pack the Supreme Court and by particular leg- islation destroy forever the national policy of adhering to the Constitution, with the system of checks and bal- ances and definite limitations upon governmental agencies?” home rule is a most important thing— the most vital thing—if we are to | continue along the course on which we have so far progressed with such unprecedented success “It is, to me, unfortunate that un- der a clause in our Copstitution, it- self primarily intended for an en- tirely different purpose, our Federal courts have been made a refuge by those who seek to evade the man- dates of the State judiciary.” Ashurst Invites Educators. Fourteen leaders in the legal edu- cational fleld—mostly deans of law schools or professors of constitutional law in the leading universities of the country—have been invited by Sen- ator Ashurst to appear before his committee Invitations to sappear have been | sent to Dean Charles E. Clark of Yale University Law School, Dean James M. Landis of the Harvard Uni- versity Law School, Dean Everett Fraser of the University of Minnesota Law School, Dean Lloyd Kirkham Garrison, University of Wisconsin Law School; Dean Leon Green, North- western University Law School; Jus- tin Miller, former dean, University of Southern California Law School; Dean Daniel J. McKenna, Detroit School of Law; Dean Thomas F. Konop, Notre Dame University Law School. Professors of constitutional law who have been invited include: Prof. Edward Samuel Corbin of Princeton University, author of the “Twilight of the Supreme Court”; Prof. Thurman W. Arnold of Yale, Prof. Charles Groves Haines of the University of California and Prof. Robert E. Cushman of Cornell. Invitations also have been sent to Willlam Draper Lewis, director of the American Law Institute and for- merly engaged for years in teaching law, and to Charles E. Merriam of the University of Chicago, whose work in the field of political acience has given him an international reputa- tion, JEWS TO CELEBRATE ‘SIYOM HASEFER’ TODAY | Dedication of New Torah to Take Place at Beth El Synagogue. The traditional “Siyon Hasefer,” or dedication of a new Torah, will be celebrated by Washington Jews at the Beth El Synagogue, Seventh and Jef- ferson streets, today at 5 p.m. The new Torah, a scroll containing the five books of Moses, was donated to the synagogue by J. R. Selis, Jew- ish communal leader. Rabbi Isadore Breslau, president of the Washington Zionist district, will deliver the principal address and Can- tor H. M. Shapiro, radio star of Sta- tion WOL, will head the list of en- tertainers. Rabbi Aaron Volkman of the Beth El Synagogue will be in charge of the religious phase of the Siyom Hasefer. ADJUSTED All work guaranteed 1 year. Any Shape Crystal Main Spring __ MONDAY ONLY—- BE WISE—BRING_THIS COUPON WITH YOU We have on record 72.518 satisfled customers. This is_positive proof of our reliability. Save Money—Have ¥ Watch . 804 ¥ 8t. N.W. Cor. 8th & F. Na. 208% sources hinted tonight Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg soon will attempt to | | arrange restoration of the Hapsburg monarchy in Austria and Hungary. Their statements were provoked by {a chancellery announcement that Schuschnigg will visit Budapest within a few days and soon afterward will go to Rome Kingdom Without King. They predicted vince Hungary king—that now for restoration of might try to con- a kingdom without a s the time to move the old Austro-Hun- garian monarchy to combat strong anti-government elements, and then to get Premier Mussolini's agreement to the plan Hungary'’s constitution is that of the old monarchy, but the throne is vacant and the functions of exercised by a regent. The question of placing a king on the throne has been left for the future. heir to the throne of the Austro-Hun- garian empire, split in two after the ‘World War. Will Visit Admiral Horthy. 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Preston Townsend, son of Senator h i show the pictures taken on a world tour last Summer, en, son of Representative 1 give piano solos; Harry R. cornet solos, accompanied by Wheeler, and other entertain- will be provided by Fred East lliam Raymond of the Grid- Club Quartet, Mrs. Margaret and Mr. and Mrs Jester. MUSEUM BIRTHDAY PHILADELPHIA, March 13 (#)— A group of prominent guests cut a birthday cake tonight at a dinner commemorating the 50th anniversary of the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the 2,480th anniversary of the first known museum in the world. The cake bore 248 candles, one for each decade since the estab- lishment of the Museum of Belshaz- sister in Mesopotamia. s Here Saving Your suranc coLUMBIA BUI 716 11th Street r Allowance oun deal -« ¢ with Massachu- | Marvel | ROOSEVELT MAKES NEW COURT PLEA Calls on Georgians to Back Plan, Despite Attitude of Senators. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staff Correspondent of The Star. WARM SPRINGS, Ga., March 13.— President Roosevelt tonight sounded & call to the “New Deal” democracy of this State, which he referred to as his “second home,” to support his Supreme Court proposal. The Presi- dent’s appeal was made in a brief message to a victory dinner at Colum- bus tonight. The greeting was hur- riedly composed by him after a brief conference with Gov. E. D. Rivers, who was the principal speaker at the din- ner. attend the dinner but asked to be sage. The President had Secretary long distance telephone to the banquet hall in the Columbus Country Club, from where it was broadcast We Will Go Ahead.” The President assured hts “fellow Georgians” that “we will go ahead with our program for a democracy | which will insure a more wholesome | and happy life for a Nation as a whole; in other words, we are s ing to make a democracy which will live to serve the people.” The message was looked upon as | being of unusual political significance The President, during his brief chat with the Georgia governor, secured from him his support for his court reorganization program In addition, the President’s call, issued in the name of a “fellow Geor- gian,” nitely serving notice upon Senators George and Russell of Georgia that he intends to win Georgia's support, with or without their aid Text of Message. ‘The President’s message follows: “I want to convey to all of you my | very cordial greetings. I wish that I could be with you tonight and talk | to you personally. You all know how it has been grand to have the perfect yesterday on arrival “We all have real cause for a vic- tory dinner. We can celebrate whole- heartedly the progress we have made during the past four years and feel assured that it is but a foreru of even better things to come. each of us playing his part, indivi ually and collectively, we will go ahead with our program for a democ- racy which will insure a more whole- some and happier life for the Nation as a whole. In other words, we are all striving to make a democracy To you, Gov. Rivers, and to all of the | distinguished guests, I send my best | wishes and, as a fellow Georgian, cele- | brate with you in spirit tonight.” Child Labor Back:1. | The President also received assur- ance from Gov. Rivers that he was m favor of the ratification by the Georgia Assembly of the child labor amendment, in which he President is intensely interested. 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