CHANGING TIDE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 161, 26 July 1937, Page 7

CHANGING TIDE

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President Roosevelt Suffers a Reverse SUPREME COURT PLANS

( By Telegi'iiph—

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WASHIN GTON, July 23. The seriousness of the consequences of the defeat in the Senate of President Roosevelt 's proposals is becoming increasingly clear. It is apparent that President Roosevelt has suffered the greatest defeat of his career and it was the greatest defeat by Congress any president has suffered since the Senate rejected President • Wilson's League of Nations plan. Two contlleting reports are in circu lation to-night. One is-.that the President has given up the fight and will reintroduee his Supreme Court. rei'orm later in the session. The other is that he reeognises that the fight is over, feeling that the agitation the Supreme Court plan produced a change of attitude in the Court itself and that to this extent his objectives were won since the Court has plainly reversed itselL , But it is obvious to observers that the Supreme Court questions were only a sinall part of the situation and that other and possibly more important pafts are : The fate of Roosevelt's own leaderBhip, and the whole second te'rm New Deal legislation for which the people ostensibly re-elected him President and Which he avowedly considers mqst essential for makiri g his first term effectual. Yice-President Garner has assumed the leadership of the anti-New Deal Democratic senators who defeated the Supreme Court proposals. The question is being asked whether this group is now in the aseendancy and whether it may not wholly defeat Mr. Roosevelt's legislative programme. It seems' to be indicated that an adjoumment will oecur on August 14. None df Mr. Roosevelt's major measures, even the normal granary laws, and including drdught, flood and production control, governmental administrative reform and so-called new N.R.A., will now receive consideration and may possibly suffer partial abandonment. Only relatively minor measures can hope to secure consideration in the present 3ession. It appears cleanly that there has been a change in the tide of the President 's aflcairs.