New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1916, Page 5

~ NEVW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1916. SURE SENATE WILL * CONFIRM BRANDEIS Champions Confident He Will Land Supreme Court Post Washington, Jan. 29.—President ‘Wilson nomination of Louis D. Bran- deis of Boston, to fill the vacancy on the supreme court bench caused by the death of Associate Justice Lamar, continued an absorbing topic of dis- cussion at the capitol today. The | 0UIS D BRANDEIS, | o & nomination came as a distinct sur- prise both in congressional and offi- “cial circles, Bran- “deis’ name had not been mentioned in connection with the place. Confident of Confirmation. Senators generally were unwilling to themselves publicly on the subject. Champions of Mr. Brandeis apparently were confident of confirm- Mr. Brandeis himself declined to make any comment, The nomination will not be taken inasmuch as Mr, express ation. Thousands Take is mild, family remedyto avoidillness, d to improve and protect their health. They keep their blood pure, their Sivers active, their bowels regular and 'digestion sound and strong with BEECHAMS __PILLS Largest Salo of Any Medicine in the Worlds ESl Verywhere. Inboxes, 10c., 25, senate judiciary committee, to which it has been referred, meets. Brandeis Not Talking. Some senators announced to their colleagues they were opposed to the nomination, but declined to be guoted to that effect. The only sena- tor found who was willing to publicly record his opinion at this time was Senator Wadsworth, republican, of New York. Senators who approved the nomi- nation were not lacking, although they too avoided public expression of their views. They felt sure, how- | ever, they could command the neces- | sary majority to confirm'the appoint- ment. “I have nothing whatever to say: 7 have not said anything and will not,” was Mr. Brandeis’ only com- ment last night as he went off to dine LUXURY ACHIEVES THIS SMART OUTFIT FOR TEN-YEAR-OLDS with President Wilson at Secretary McAdoo’s house. Justice Hughes and Pitney also attended the dinner. | Champion of Reforms. | Mr. Brandeis has been known for | years as a champion of various re- forms and a leading advocate of pro- | gressive measures. While his nn-l pointment will be generally pleasing 1o progressive or radical political elements, there is a large body of conservative ,democrats and republi- cans who will not like it In ffl(‘t,} some of the senate democ already | are threatening to fight confirmation. | At the beginning of President Wil- son’s administration Mr. Brandeis was expected to get a place in the cabinet. Many of the administra-| tion leaders believed he would be ap- pointed attorney general. A Radical of Radicals, Louis D, Brandeis, who is of Jew- | ish parentage, about sixty years of | age, and a native of Louisville, Ky., is one of the most remarkable men who have appeared in public life in America. He is a radical of rndica],s,,‘ vet he holds the respect of the most conservative. He is a lawyer for the people, and has staked his reputation time and again in fights for the people without a dollar in sight as his fee. He could have had a couple of fortunes had he always worked for the big fees at his command; but up formal'y until Monday when the he has preferred to remain compara- All set up in white glazed kid, with huge seal buttons and bandings, is this small maiden. The belt buckle is gun metal, and her cap is white coney to carry out the beautiful design of the coat. tively a poor man and live in the joy of being the ‘people’s advocate.” Personally, Mr. Brandeis is a medium-sized, wiry man, rather un- couth in appearance, with piercing gray eyes, and a mass of black hair, streaked with gray, that is always more or less tousled. He wears queer glasses. If it weren’'t for the fact that he was born in Kentucky, he would be called a typical Boston lawyer—green bag and all. Even with his southern birth he has the Yankee accent, due to the fact that he was transplanted to New England. A Cold Proposition ‘When you are wheezing and sneez- ing, coughing and hawking, you’re facing a cold proposition. Handle itright. Hales Honey of Horehound and Tar quickly relieves bad cases. All druggists, 25cts. a bottle. Try Pike’s Toothache Drops He is sixty years old. He was born and educated in Louisville and later at Harvard university and in 1877 began practicing law in Boston. Won Cheaper Insurance, Brande public campaign for principle started in 1904, when he in- stituted a suit against maladminis- tration of certain public charitable institutions in Boston. Through nearly a hundred hearings before the city aldermen he fought the fight for the poor and won a complete victory. | Of course, he Teceived no fee. He next took up the fight for bet- ter life insurance conditions for the poor, and was so successful that the cost of life insurance for laboring men has been reduced by fully twenty cent, throughout the country. Vext the Boston gas companies at- tempted to combine and squeeze the consumers. They reckoned without Ioandeis. He jumped in, forced them to cut the price from $1 to 80 cents, and at the same time showed how they could increase their dends. There was no fee. In 1907 some one told him of fight certain manufacturers in | gon were waging to invalidate | law prohibiting the employment | women for more than ten hours a | day. He assumed the case for the | women, fought it through the United States supreme court, and won. that tribunal, on’ Feb. 24, 1903, him the almost unparalleled tribute of | complimenting him by name in its opinion and quoting extensively from his brief. His Offer to Railroads. Mr, Brandeis first came before the public as a national figure in the Bal- linger-Pinchot controversy, when he appeared as counsel for Louis R. Glavis. who made the reports which opened up the seandal. Later he was counsel for the shippers who were fighting an increase in railroad freight rates, and he declared he could show the railroads where they could save $1,000,000 per day by us- ing more efficient methods, The rail- roads offered him an enormous sal- ary if he would put his theories into practice, but he declared he hadn’t time to earn so much money. New York became particularly in- terested in Mr. Brandeis when in 1910 he was called upon to help settle the great garment workers’ strike, and the the of Ore-| Ana | paid | he was made a member of the board of arbitration and its chairman. He has been engaged in any number of fights to make the lot of the wagé earners less difficult, and he has al- ways been helpful to the cause of labor. He has written largely, and is con- sidered an authority on public fran- chises, life insurance, wage earners’ insurance, scientific management, la- bor problems and the trust question. Basis of Operation. Mr, Brandeis has been at the fore- front of the Zionist movement in the United States and if confirmed will be the first Jew to taxe a seat on the bench of the supreme court of the United States. The opposition to confirmation of Mr. Brandels will be based in part on the ground he is not considered a i democrat, and in part on the conten- tion that he is not particularly fitted for justice, despite his record as a lawyer. That the opposition will be serious was made plain yesterday af- ternoon by democratic leaders. In fact, somt of them predicted that he could not be confirmed. While political reasons are ad- vanced for the predicted opposition to confirmation. there is no conceal- ment of its real bas It relates to the fact Mr. Brandels is regarded as too radical. up to his party to say whether it wants in the highest court in the land a man who is known as a radical Mellen’s Comment. 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