BATTLE WITH PRESIDENT

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 360, 15 February 1937, Page 6

BATTLE WITH PRESIDENT

SUPREME COURT . AMERICAN ISSUE. • T 11 23EC Opposition Being Made To Measure. Press Association—Copyright. Washington, February 14. The alignments in the increasingly better battle between President Roosevelt and the Supreme Court were more sharply drawn to-day. Senator King, his avowed opponent, after a visit to White House with several Congressional colleagues in an effort to obtain the President’s consent to a compromise, indicated that Mr Roosevelt ie determined to “remake” the Court during this Session of Congress, as a result of its declaring unconstitutional much of his

legislation, passed, ip, an endeavour to assist recovery in the United States. Senator Glass has announced hit' opposition and has declared that he will take the floor ip the debate against the plan and also Senator Wheeler, who declared that the proposals are undemocratic, non-progres-tive and fundamentally unsound. Senator La Folefte, .the recognised leader of the Mid-Western Progressives, In a radio address to the nation, supported the plan and asked the people not to submit to “the forces.l of judicial usurpation which is within the constitutional powers of Congress to remedy.”