ENDORSING PLAN

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 368, 24 February 1937, Page 5

ENDORSING PLAN

YOUTH MOVEMENT

JUDICIARY PLAN.

President Secures Majority

In Senate.

Press Association—Copyright. Washington, February 22

The Youth Movement, demonstrating at Washington, with a single dissenting vote, adopted a resolution endorsing President Roosevelt’s judiciary plan and then adjourned. Tile Senate Judiciary Committee announced it would start hearings concerning the measure on March 9. Congressional leaders predicted that at least two months would intervene before the Senate votes upon the subject. Senator Burke, in a radio address, termed the plan an insidious attack on the Federal judiciary. Mrs Rogers Introduced a resolution in the House limiting Supreme Court membership to native born citizent of the United States, which would bar Messrs Frankfurter and Wagner, who are both mentioned as likely Roosevelt appointees. President Roosevelt now has a minimum of 40 votes in the Senate on the judiciary programme. The oppotiiton numbers 35. A. convention of the National Lawyers’ Guild overwhelmingly voted in support of the plan.