Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1937, Page 11

Early .Naming of Justice Urged Constitution Clearly Forbids Recess Ap- pointment Now. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has stirred up a good deal of su: picion, perhaps unjustified, by | his request that the Attorney General advise him by formal opinion whether a recess appointment to the Bupreme Court would be legal. The mere fact that the opinion was asked has led to the widespread welief that Mr. Roosevelt planned to wait till after Congress adjourned and then name a justice who would sit in ¥ the October term of the court and perhaps iff longer, depending on whether the new justice were § confirmed at the session of Con- | gress beginning next January 5 One view taken | has been that by this method Mr. Roosevelt would make it embar- rassing for the Senate to reject his nominee, since the appointee would be wearing the robes of the court and participating In the hearings and decisions. To disqualify & man who had once sat on the bench—though this has hap- pened once-—might raise the question of the validity of the decisions ren- dered while he was sitting court. The legal questions involved would | seem to be easy to clear up by a simple reference to the Constitution {tself, which says “The President shall have power to il up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall e pire at the end of their next session. The language is plain that the Pres- {dent’s power to make recess appoint ments extends only to “vacancies that may happen du recess of the Senate.” W ce Van Devanter retired rec Senate was not in rece: v occurred while Roose- . to con- David Lawrence. Py vacan was S8 at any time before next October, when the Supreme Court term begins, and even if there is a slight delay in Octo- ber the court may continue to func- tion with as six on the P THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, What’s Back of It All New Deal Drives for Party Realignment With Good Neighbor League Playing Prominent Role. BY H. R. BAUKHAGE. HE “purge” of the Good Neighbor League which removed Stanley High from its directorship and made Walter A. Jones, ardent New Dealer, president. contains more significance than meets the eye. It is part of a definitely crystallizing plan for the next phase in the battle for New Deal objectives, The general strategy is a realignment of forces, liberals versus conservatives, regardless of party label. The battlefield now becomes the Natiom. The court fight was only one sector. Here the Good Neighbor League steps in. The President wil go ca the air under its auspices to restate his objectives within a moo \or so. Meanwhile, a drive to make the league a Nation-wide organization will begin. Skeleton groups already exist i 23 States. Solicitation for mem- bership in all 48 will start immediately. Several conferences between administration officials and league of- ficials have already taken place and a campaign has been mapped out. An important meeting is planned for today at the White House which may signal completion of the program. The avowed purpose of the league is education “along liberal lines.” It can mow be stated that it was the definite purpose of the administration to let the court issue be the wellwether which the liberals could follow. Thus the sheep and the goats would be separated. Then Messrs. Wheeler and O'Mahoney leaped the fence, taking their followers with them, and the line-up was completely scrambled, with the “‘conservatives” announcing com- plete rout of the New Deal force: But the administration e plains, as the allies frequently did in their official communiques dur- ing the World War after a re- treat, that its forces have ‘“‘retired to previously prepared positions in the rear and are consolidating their lines.” * ok ok X The first sign of the “consoli- dation” was Senator Bob La Follette's sound-off char pioning the ad- ministration program, after a week end cruise aboa' « the presidential vacht. Both Senator La Follette and his brother, sov. Phil of Wis- consin (who also went along on the ship of State), are, of course, members of a bona fide party, the Progressives. And so, the old gray squirrel on the White House elm reports the be- ginning of the drive to build a New Deal following regardless of party affiliation, by direct centact with leaders such as the La Follette brothers and by direct appeal to the Nation through organizations like the Good Neighbor League. * ok %k Delegate Dimond of Alaska, who wants the original of the check with which his Territory was purchased from Russia, has decided this historic document is buried so deeply in the Treasury vaults that it will take an act of Congress to bring it forth. If he knew the strange tale buried with it, he might doubt whether the original warrant for $§7,200.000, photostat of which is on display in the Treasury, is really the document he wants. There 18 @ mysterious, but convincing. story of the negotiations for the purchase of Alaska and the price paid quite at odds with the one you learned in the school book. Here it is, called to this writer's attention by a hunter and explorer, and long-time student of Alaska. Harry Garner: After his death, there was found in the files of the late Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior under Woodrow Wilson, a memorandum. In it, he states that he learned from Mr. Charles Glover, president of the Riggs National Bank, the unpublished details of the Alaskan negotiations. According to the memorandum, Mr. Glover said that he saw two war rants, not cne, for the Alaskan purchase. The sequel of the story he learned from Senator Dawes of Massachusetts. x % K % Before the Civil War there were negotiations for the purchase of Alaska from Russia for $1.400.000—not $7,200,000—but even at that price it was considered too high and the matter lay dormant, The Civil War broke. Great Britain began to show sympathy for S jary act of 1869, of the United States and eight asso- | ciate justices, any six of whom shall | constitute a quorum.” The law does not say the court | “may consist” of nine justices, but definitely says the number shall be nine. Likewise the Constitution itself uses mandatory language with refer- ence to nominations to the Supreme Court. It say “He (the President) * * * shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall ap- point * * * judges of the Supreme Court.” This clearly means that the ap- pointing power—the President—must co-operate with the confirming power —the Senate—to fill vacancies in the Supreme Court. To fail to make a| nomination now while the Senate is in | session would be to se to permit the normal constitutional process to | eperate and would be a neglect of ® public duty. Custom on Nominations. The custom heretofore has been that when & nomination failed of confirma- tion at the end of a session of Congress, & recess appointment would be given but it would last, of course, only till Congress had a reasonable chance to act, and if the nomination remained | unacted upon it would be withdrawn. % . 'This, however, relates to inferior offi- cers of the Government. At no time has a vacancy in the Supreme Court which happened during the time Con- gress was in session failed to result in & nomination to fill such vacancy. The only recess appointment to a Supreme Court position appears ot have oc- curred in June, 1795, after Congress had adjourned the previous March, Judge Rutledge was given a recess appointment by President Washington. | Subsequently when Congress recon- vened the nomination of Judge Rut- | ledge, who had joined in the work of | \ the court, was rejected by the Senate. The Senate has acted unfavorably— that is, has refused to confirm or has postponed consideration or caused nominations to be withdrawn—in 22 cases. This is about one-fifth of all the justices who have sat on the | highest bench. Confirmation usually takes time, rarely less than 10 days and often more than 30 days. If Mr. Roosevelt doesn’t want to prolong the | present session of the Senate, he can call an extra session for mid-Septem- ber, as the Supreme Court does not meet till the first Monday in October. The President in his fireside chat | on March 9 last stated that he was @ easer to appoint new justices “now,” and he emphasized the word “now.” It seems probable, therefore, that there —_— e e Lhere LUMBER for Any Repairs “Sudden Service” Get the thrifty habit of calling J. Frank Kelly, T tention and delivered our “SUDDEN SERVICE" 8t no extra cost. 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Two warrants were issued, one for $1,400,000, the price for the Territory originally asked. 4 second warrant for $5,800,000 covered the cost of the naval demon= stration. “Buy history only knows,” concludes the quotation in Mr. Lane's memorandum, “that the United States paid $7,200,000 for this Territory, which is now demonstrated to be one of the richest portions of the earth in mineral deposits.” ‘Who knows, it may well be asked, what became of the two warrants, one for $1.400,000 and one for $5.800,000, Which, Mr. Glover said, he per- sonally held in his hand? And what of the single document made out for $7,200,000 which Mr. Dimond is asking for? (Copyright, 1027.) will be nine justices on the bench next ) of the bar in his section of the coun- Autumn, and the only question is | try. whether Mr. Roosevelt will attempt a recess appointment and bring on a controversy which really would be avoided if he sent in a regular nomi- nation to the Senate instead of & recess appointment. ‘Three men are believed to be in the lead in the President's consideration of a prospective appointment. They are Stanley Reed, the present solicitor general; Judge Sam Bratton of New Mexico, a former United States Sena- tor and at present on the Circuit Court of Appeals for the tenth cir- cuit, which sits in Denver and the Southwest, and Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, jr., of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the fifth circuit, which sits in New Orleans and the South. Mr. Bratton has been on the Federal bench since June, 1933, when Presi- dent Roosevelt appointed him. Mr. Hutcheson has served since 1918, when President Wilson appointed him. He is 58 years old. ‘There would probably be very little delay in the confirmation of any of these three. Mr. Reed was slated for the bench when he was made solicitor general and is familiar with the work of the Supreme Court. Mr. Bratton is popular with the members of the Senate. Mr. Hutcheson is regarded as a judge of the Brandeis type, and with an excellent record among members | (Copyright, 1937.) MEDIA, Pa, July 29 (#)—Albert R. Knight of Lansdowne, charged with attempting to kill his three daughters by setting fire to his home, was released. from Delaware County Prison yesterday in $5.000 bail, posted by a bonding company. The State charged Knight, a for- mer oil executive, tried to kill his daughters to collect $130,000 insur- ance he held on their lives. oo fortle ends “spill trouble” NO SHIRTEE LIKE HANES! -_ o~ PERFECT COOKING 1S UNTI AND CREAMS FASTER. TRY --AND YOULL NEVER KNOW THESE REFRIGERATOR COOKIES- D. C., THURSDAY, rrHE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s eflort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, althouyh such opinions may be contredictory among themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. Wage-Hour Haste Hit Measure Should Be Subjected to Cool, Calm Debate Before Passage, Observer Believes. BY MARK SULLIVAN. USPICION Dogs Final Steps of the Congress” is the head- line over a dispatch by Mr. Arthur Krock from Wash- ington to the New York Times. Mr. Krock's article deals mainly with mu- tual suspjgion between the independ- ent Democrats who opposed the Presi- dent's court measure and the admin- istration Democrats who supported it. Each group sus- pects the other may, by some parliamentary device, violate the agreement made when the Presi- dent’s court measure was voted back to the Senate Judiciary Committee and to deatl. But the atmos- phere of suspicion covers a wider field than this. It affects every- thing. For it is generally recognized now that the President's court meas- ure was not merely one isolated at- tempt at increase of power for the | Executive. It was the completing key- stoae for a number of related meas- [44 Mark Sullivan, ures, for what Gen. Hugh Johnson speaks of as a “deliberate underlying | but unspoken design” to change the form of government, and to make the American Government—again to quote Gen. Johnson—"the most dangerous on earth.” This design, this attempt at revo- | lution by ruse, was at first recognized by a few who in the beginning were | voices crying in the wilderness. Later 1t came to be seen by many thought- ‘ ful students and by many members of Congress, including several of the independent Democrats who under- took to check the design by defeating | the President’s court measure. | Through the publicity attending the | court fight, and in other ways, recog- | nition of the “deliberate but unspoken | design” has now spread out through | the country. The current issue of the Texas Weeklv sees that “the program | of the ‘President’s advisers’ represents more than the schemes of a few ‘so- cial frontiersmen’ at Washington: it | embodies a determination to modify | our form of government and the e isting economic order in a funda- mental way.” This suspicion through- out the country, flowing in to Wash- | ington, reinforces the suspicion now felt by members of Congress. Grounds for Suspicion. At a time when suspicion is gen- eral, persons who try to be prudent and accurate fear they may suspect too much and try to keep their poise. | Is there any item in the legislation | now being hurried through tie closing | days of the Congress which justifies suspicion that it may be a funda- | mental part of the plan to, as Prof. Tugwell once put it, “make over | America’'? Some of the legislation asked for by the President and now being passed seems harmless enough. The Presi- dent's request for six secretaries cer- tainly contains no danger provided the secretaries are to be really secretaries only. True, Gen. Johnson, in his careful analysis of proposed legislation, was suspicious of the six-secretary system. “The new executive system,” Gen. Johnson said, “will be tied to the central dynamo * * * by command exercised as Napoleon did it. dictatori= ally and on a sextuple spy system. But a President, the present one or any future one, is entitled to six sec- | | retaries or more—if any one man could make effective use of more than | six secretaries. And the power to use the six as the secondary rank in a dictatorial hierarchy disappears if the | dictatorial hierarchy is itself pre- vented from coming into existence by refusal of Congress to pass the meas- ures which will bring it about. The one pending measure that seri- ously excites the suspicion of many is the so-called “wage and hour” meas- ure. One hesitates to express sus- picion of this or any other measure | without analyzing it and pointing out the grounds for suspicion. But the wage and hour measure is extremely intricate. I have not read it; very few have read it. Bo great has been the number of new measures and so | mately, intricate have they been that no man could read them all with the intent- ness necessary to understand them fully. And if & writer who, devoting all his time to it and having no other occupation, cannot read all of the flood of measures, members of Con- gress and others who have many other duties are not likely to. This has been one of the advantages on the side of what Gen. Johnson calls the “Machi- avellis.” There were several of them, they knew what they were doing, they understood the technique of doing it, and the separate measures fitted into a design, pattern. Some Objectives Worthy. It should be added that some of the expressed objectives of the wage and hour measure are completely worthy. But, about all these measures, one always wonders if there are ob- jectives other than the expressed ones. It should be added also that the wage and hour measure as it now stands is very different from the measure as it was originally introduced. It has had the scrutiny of members of two committees in the House and Senate, and they have greatly reduced its scope and modified its effects. Yet the wage and hour measure still represents a large delegation of power to a presidential board. It rep- resents a large extension of Federal power at the expense of State rights and State autonomy. The “wage and hour” measure, like all the others, must be looked upon not as standing | alone but in connection with other measures or proposals. There may be some relation between this measure and the one, proposed but not now imminent, to divide the country into seven regional economic provinces This latter proposal would—I quote Gen. Johnson—"tend further toward the twilight of the States, because the States do have some decentralized independent, regional, political power; but these seven economic provinces will have none, they are under Federal control.” Some, whose suspicions may be ex- treme, think that the aggregate of several measures would result, ulti- in the virtual extinction of tates would become mere geographical terms, obsolete like the names of departments in France, or having some resemblance to the term, for example, “New England,” which is a geographical designation and not a governmental unit. These and other suspicions may be extreme. Yet it is reasonable to say that the wage and hour measure ought not to be passed in the heat | and hurry of a dving Congress. If it is good, its goodness can stand up | to adequate debate. For the country to arrive at understanding of the President’s court measure consumed several weeks—the entire period from the first introduction of the court measure, February 5, to the final dis- position of it, July 22. was five and a half months. It might not take that | much time to arrive at understanding of the “wage and hour” measure, but certainly the few hurried days that can now be given to it is hardly enough. (Copsright, 1937.) TWO DEAD, WIFE SHOT IN DOMESTIC QUARREL Father, Apparently Foiled in At- tempt to Take Daughter Away, Runs Wild With Gun. By the Assoc BUFFALO. N. Y., July ted Press 29 —Buell G Tallman, II yesterday shot and wounded his estranged wife, killed her | cook and then committed suicide, | Frank J. McCarthy, assistant detective | chief, said, in a quarrel over the Tall- mans’ 10-year-old daughter. McCarthy said he learned Tallman | had gone to his wife’s home to visit | their daughter Sally, who is 10 today, and evidently attempted to take her away with him. The girl broke away as he took her to a cab, McCarthy said he learned, and her father followed her back into the house and started shooting with a revolver. McCarthy said a letter headed “dates on which I last saw my child” was found in Tallman’s pocket 1937. We, the People President’s Defeat on Court Bill Seen Victory for Reactionary and Fascist Forces. BY JAY FRANKLI HE President’s (and people’s) judiciary reform bill has been killed. Democratic Senators—every one of whom was elected by the series o/ popular mandates in 1732, '34 and '36 to support F. D. R. and the New Deal program of progressive reform—have put themselves in the position of politicians who accepted other people's votes for one purpose and appropriated them to themselves for another. Washington is in a state of even greater moral confusion than when the Senate rejected Woodrow Wilson's international program. Bad faith, double-dealing, opportunism and every conceivable form of petty skull duggery are rampant. JULY 29, How did it happen? Who where the senatorial sparrows who killed the Cock Robin of the New Deal? Why did they violate the most elementary of democratic ob- ligations and betray the people who elected them? Out of the welter of cross- purposes and countercharges a few facts emerge, facts which fatally reflect the unrepresentative Al and irresponsible character of the Upper House of our National Legislature. The solid South was alarmed at the proposal to regulate hours and wages of labor, to mitigate the evils of farm tenancy and to curb the lynching tradition. At the last moment, even after Gov. Lehman gave Roosevelt the “stab in the back,” the President could have made a deal by which his judiciary reform bill would have been passed in return for abandonment of labor legislation, an attack on the C.I. 0., and a pledge to impound 10 per cent of the relief fund This—to his credit—the President refused to do and he preferred to take a beating rather than surrender his industrial and social program %o the indecent and unpardonable demands of the South- ern die-hards. The mining States of the West are under the thumb of the same absentee corporations which originate in and control the Northeastern States. Many Western “liberals” were found to be under Wall Street's remote control—via copper, coal, petroleum, water power, gold and silver, transportation and finance. The Delaware corporations began calling all cars, fearing lest reform of the courts might injure them and the clear- eyed, bronzed, drawling sons of the plains and mesas trooped to heel like any gang of ward-heelers, * k% % A number of ambitious Democratic Senators were fishing in waters which they had deliberately muddied in order to put themselves in line for the party's nomination in 1940. They desired to postpone completion of the Roosevelt program until they could use it themselves and to cap- ture some of Roosevelt's prestige by defeating him. Several bitter-end Senators were men to whom death is near. Old age or illness, combined to make them eager to have one last glorious fling of irresponsibility before meeting their last visitor and shaking the hand of the final constituent who wears a skuil. The President’s only focus of organized support—Ilabor—was confused and party discredited. John L, Lewis' C. I. O. was fighting & fierce series of strikes, while the split between the C. I. O. and the American Federation of Labor further weakened the influence of the workers, P The Committee for the Nation and its allied ‘Tory lobbyists were work- ing with unlimited funds and concentrated purpose to block action in the Senate, by aid of clandestine dis- loyalty and sabotage high in Con- gress and the administration. And finally, the President’s bill was handled badly at the out- set. The fact that Attorney Gen- eral Cummings drafted it should have aroused suspicion. Mr. Roosevelt made the mistake of not trying to persuade his party lead- ers to support it in advance of its announcement. Senator Ashurst, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, rocked it to sleep until he had lost a majority of the committee. Majority Leader Sam Rayburn (of Mr. Garner's Texas) kept it away from the House of Representatives where it would have been passed quickly. Poor Joe Robinson's legitimate desire to serve on the Supreme Court prevented compromise when com- promise was possible. It all adds up. The result is a victory for reaction, & major defeat for democracy. All enemies of popular government are making whoopee in celebration of the Fascist coup d'etat at Washington. (Copyright, 19: BOY SCOUT LABORATORY | MOVIE WAR CONTINUES IN CAMPING PROJECTED Italy Acts to Force Own Produc- tions on Screen. ROME, July 29 (#)—The Italian government last night intensified its campaign aga.nst foreign moving pic- tures, ordering exhibitors to present one Italian fiim for every two for- eign pictures. A royal decree embodying the meas- L L McDonald Chosen for Post. Several Administrative Changes Are Announced. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 29.—The Boy Scouts of America announced last night the appointment of National Camp Director L. L. McDonald as “camp chief,” to conduct “laboratory” experiments in camping and equip-| ment at the Schiff Scout Reservation, | Mendham, N. J. Other appointments announced | were: Ray O. Wyland, assistant di- rector of the division of program in charge of education and relation- ships; Dwight M. Ramsay, former Chicago regional executive, assistant director of the division of operations, and Jamboree Activities Director Lorne W. Barclay, national director of activities and camping. Other personnel changes were the transfer of Chicago Council Executive Perry Lint to & similar post in New York; his replacement in Chicago by Ralph Nodine, who will be succeeded as New England regional executive by Donald W. Moyer, for 14 years a New York and New Jersey official At preesnt, three foreign fllms may be exhibited for one Italian. WATCH OUT--YOUVE TIPPED OVER THE OLIVE OIL AND ITS DRIPPING INTO THE WHAT L YOU USE JACK FROST. 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In collaboration with the Justice Department, Sou- der has handled about 75 criminal cases a year, saved the Government millions of dollars. He worked two and a half vears going over 10,000 documents for the Lindbergh case, 18 months on a forged tax return case, which alone would have cost the Government $150.- 000. He testified in the reeent Raskob-Du Pont stock deal case. A date was the issue. Further back the revenue act of 1928 provides that stocks once sold cannot be bought back for 30 days, if income tax losses are deducted. Souder produced his thousandth-of-an-inch ruler, testified that “the date measured with the body of the letter, but not with the price insertions.” Of great importance to the Ameri- can mouth is Souder’s laboratory work on the standardization of materials used in dentistry. Cements and dental amalgum have passed permanency tests. The method of producing inlayvs is standardized. When your dentist fills a cavity, fits an inlay, or a bit of bridgework, you have an assurance of permanency, “We approach the millionth of an inch ifn measurement,” Souder says. It may well be, as Shakespeare said, “Much Ado About Nothing.” It is that “nothing” and what to do with it that gives us scientists our jobs, In dentistry, as in other things, it is that one fraction of an inch that tells the story of standardization.” With a background of religious faith, which is the foundation of his present philosophy, Souder was farm-born at Salem, Ind, in 1884. He worked hard, received his education With A. B. and A. M. degrees at the Uni- " Wilmer Souder. | versity of Indiana, he taught for & bit, came to the Bureau of Standards in 1911 for two years, obtained a scholarship at the University of Chi- cago, graduated with honors and a Ph. D, returned to the Bureau of Stand- ards, has been here ever since. One Killed in Mine Cage. 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