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r) A.*' \ . ,7 S^MT^iie Court' ^ WUl Be Target ■^E -CMNTON CHBONICLE, Two G. M. Mahonebi the 7^th Coiiglre#* THURSDAY, rJANlUBYg, 1937 I Ro^velt Plans To OiU Confer- inct To Discuss StatOs of High Tribunal. / Washii^rton, Jan. 18. — The firat definite indication that President ayelt will act soon to bring o|^ out oi\tke chaos of conflicting pro posals cdi^ming the suprome eoitrt developed OGi^y in the form of a sur prise annouiKf^ent by Senator Min ton, DemocAit. of Indiana. After a visit to the aresident, Min- /Un / 7^ ton declaired that Mi^T^oosevelt will Bummon a * conference soon on the question of^possible fogislation deal ing wttrthe high tribunal. le news aroused interest in con gress, which has been showered with a variety of suggestions for curbing the court, opining decisions more favorable to administration’" objec tives, or broadening congressional powers over industry and agriculture. i Just who will attend the presiden- j iaP conference was not announced. Some legislators assumed, however, that congressional leaders would be among those present. Whether the gathering would be a revival to a forum over which Senator Norris. .Independent, of Nebraska, will preside some six or seven weeks hence also was not clear. Norris, who has criticized the court as “out of touch with the people,” has accepted a call to head a “conference on cCnrtitution- al amendment.” ' \ Attending the Norris meeting will / >^e' “liberals” who are striving to agree on some one proposal, so they can rally their collective strength be hind it. In the pasy Norris has proposed that the supreme court be iorlndden to invalidate acts of congress except on a seven-to-two vote. Minton, the White House visitor today, also expre.ssed personal pref- erenC^e for such a bill. He said: “That is one way we can obtain legislation we have been seeking.” President Roosevelt’s recent mes- / sage to congress asking a more “in- * telligent” interpretation of the Con stitution hy the courts led today to a sharp debate in the house of repre sentatives. Expressing “amazement” over the White House attitude toward the su preme court. Representative Luce, Rej/ publican, Massachusetts, contended the court’s one duty is to “declare what the Constitution means.” He said the judges should ^ve no heed “to press or public ed^rs or electors, preachers or politicians, re- formera or reactionsries.” Representative Connel^, Democrat, h^Msiurhusetts, asked if the president, in his message, did iict ask the'court “to give a more en^hteffed interpre- ^ Cation of ’ the Cqiistitution.” “A more intelligent interpretation,” replied Luce. “Don’t you think the court uses intelligence?” “No, personally, I don’t think the court used much intelligence in many of its opinions/’ Connery said. bn Of Texas Ahd S. C. Mahon G. R’s George oSWias, and Heyward of Greenville,’Hope To Keep Their Mail Unscrambled. 7 Washington, Jan. 16. — While there are 56 ihembers of the seventy-fifth congress with similar names, _^thcre nre only two members who have the same initials—Representative Mahon, of South Carolina, and Representa tive Mahon, of Texas. 7 When the South Carolina member arrived lo take over his duties in the seventy-fifth cotigress as a successor to the late Representative John J. MeSwain, he learned that oAe of his colleagues not only had his surname but his initials as well.* Mahon of Texks, however, is known by the given name of George, while the South Carolina member uses his middle name, Heyward. While this will help to distinguish between the two. members, there wiR: be a con- Representative G. Hbyward Mahon, of the Fourth South Carolina dis trict, shaking hands wibi^ George H. Mahon of the Nineteenth. Texas difltricL ^inuar jnixinfiT pi mail aiiid telephone c^b, ,The cordial relations which ei- ist between the ^o members, bow- eveTj^ will pi^ent the aimilarity of temes from interferrihg with tbw respective activities. During the last congress there waa much confusion in the public mind be tween the late Speaker Joe Byrns, and Senator James F. Byrnes, of South Carolina, both being prominent in~"ldminilstration activities. 7 <In this session there are- two Browns in the senate, two Johnsons, and two Thomases. In the house there are four Allens, twor Cannons, two Coles, two ,Han- cbcTis/lhree Hills, fous Johnsons, two Kennedy^, two Lewises, two Martias, two Mitchells, two O’Briens,'two O’Connors, two O’Connells, three Pet- •rsans, two Reeds, flve Smiths, three Taylors, two Thomases, two Vinsons, and two Whites. SEES NO OPPWmON ' ■' . lo KTONAP STATUTE Bhop First In THE CHRONICLE Then In the Stores k M I INSURANCE I We offer expert service and protection. Assent for some of the strongest Fire Insurance Companies in America. REAL ESTATE Town and country prop; erty. Prices attractive. Clinton Realty & insursunce. B. H. BOYD/Agent RAL DIRECTORS M^UldM* EMBALMERS Licensed Eabalmera, Coaplili Modern Eqnlpaont Day Pk §4 -Nighmia 24, 25S or 25S Clinton, 8.C Miserable with backache? W/HEN kidneys fwidion badly «nd W yo« ndfas a nagging badoKht, wNb dlninew, burning, toMily or lob lion and getting up el fiUQUcul urination nkjfcb when you fed lirad, nenmwu drSMl...ustOo«i*tPHla Dmu's /m eq^udeNy for poorly working kidbeys. Mjllibns-of boxes eetUMd ~ tvory yow. They ere rccom- AA your Pills Washington, Jan. 18—The hew Con gress started off under a full head of steam by enacting a resolution plug ging, a hole in the netrality act of last year. There was nothing in the <rfd law to prevent any American from selling war supplies to either party in a* civil war siich as is now going on in Spain. The State De partment had been compelled to grant licenses for the export of sev eral million dollars worth of second hand airplanes and engines which had been sold to*the Spanish rebels by a Brooklyn dealer who had bought them at a United States army auction. - These munitions had already been loaded on a ship when Congress convened. The effort of the new Congress was to rush the new law through in time to prevent the shi from sailing. Congress was nbt quick enough. However, it is /now the law that hereafter no Amwican may supply arms to anybody taking part in a civil war anywhere in the world. There is a distinc^ feeling m Washington that the/state Depart ment i.s worried ab^t the, European war outlook. -SigM are numerous that a large seda international con flict is brewing in Spain. This country ma^ not become involved, though thc^ is always that danger, but^jusi/in case, the President has ordered/work to be begun, immedi ately /on T^e construction the two bigg^t battleships that w'e have ev;er built. They will cost about 00,000,060 and will take about three yeans to build. The Constitution While there is talk heard on every side about a constitutional amend ment giving Congress authority to legislate on labor relations, the^e is trait an immediate likelihood that such a resolution will be adopted this year. Cbngress was considerably impressed by the Precedent's (re minder that the Constitutioin already JjHIs government to meet twentieth Century social and economic problems in a progressive way, and that all that is needed is, “enlightened interpreta tion.” /That is, in effect, what eome of the memtrans^ijiLjthe Suprema .Court have also said in /the past four years. The latest Supreme Court decisions have given much satisfaction to the more liberal minded. The Court’s reaffinnation of the right of peaceable assembly^ resulted in setting free a man who had 'been arrested two years ago in Oregon. Dirk deJonge attended a meeting of the Communist Party. There was no evidence that anything treasonable was said or done at that meeting, but on the theory that any Cmmmuniist meeting must be criminal the Oregon police arrested deJonge—and tbe Su preme Court of the United States in >an unanimous opinion has set him free. Child Labor Amendment \ In another decision the Supreme Court ruled that when any state adopts a law forbidding the importa tion of prwon-made goods, it ISwothM a fei^ral offense to ship such goods into that state. This decision has been held by some comraentators to make it unnecessary to continue the epfort to ratify pWiding consti tutional amendment fosrbklding the lb- terstate shipment of goods produ^ by the labor of children. : : r Nevertheleaa, l^esident Roosevelt amendment, urging them to act upon it speedily. Twenty-four states have already .^tified the amendment but twelve mbre must do so before it becomes a of the federal .-constitution. Forrn^ Presldeht HoSVer har'Joined in the \npeal declaring that Presi dent Roo-welt is entirely right The ame^ment was first submit ted to the sWes in President Cool idge’s administration after the Su preme (’ourt had\;uled that Congres had no power to prohibit the ali ment of products ^ child-labor In interstate commerce. Congress Centers AHen^n One of the .first big febs which Congress is trying to gey out of the way is the continuati^ an<i\xten- sion of some of the ^ergenc^Wis- iaition which expire^by a limi in the course of the next few .week Three bills are •'under wmy, one extending untir June 30, 1930, the lending autl^ty of the R^FX]. and some of., 'other federal lending agencies;A second extending to the same dfte the President’s discretion ary power to devalue the dollar and continuing the two .billion dollar currency stabilization fund; the third continues fd^r the same period the authority of the Federal Reserve bank system to issue currency notes against government securities. One of the other laws which ex pires on June 30 this year unless Congress reenacts it is the three-cent postage law. All the indications are, tK)wevei% that this will be reenacted. The Motor Strike The labor situation is giving Ad ministration and Congressional lead ers a great dehl of concern. While every practical politician wants to go on record on every powiiMe oc casion as being a friend of labor, none of/them wants to be forced Into takin^sides as between the two major factums into which organized labor is;ww split. - The effort of John Lewis’/X. I. 0. io force General Motors to recog nize his union as the sole bargaining .agency with its employees is in con flict with the American Federation of Labor, which has a strong and very active lobby always at work on sCapi- tol Hill. ■ - - The understading here is that Mr. Lewis did not intend to start the General Motors strike until Spring, but the local leaders got out of hand, and went ahead with their sit-down trikes before all the plans of strate- had been perfected, i# also the understanding here that It waa never the intention of the C. I. ^to cripple the whole atitomo- bile industry. The strike waa aimed at Generq^^otors alone. FOR THE NEW YEAR ^ JOURNALS CHRONICLE PUB. CO. Ck>Iumi>ia, Jan. 18.—Governor ,tohn- aton said, today, ■be^M'e l^ving^ for Washington for the inaugural, that he saw no^ opposition to a sti^ute he advocated making kidnaping a ^pi-^ tal offense in South Qlrolina. —^ The executive refecr^ to a section of his annual address to the legisla-^.i tore, delivered last Thursday;^ in which he advocated such a statute. ,He .said he desired to direct attention, to the section for fear it might be over looked. He said the state had been fiiee - practically of kidnaping, but said “we shoTdd-- net 1^~ ourselves be caught asleep. At present the''penalty for kidnaping is five to 40 years impris- onme^. I think that there.^i« no nSDro serioui crime that can be'committed and I urge again that the legislature take st^s to make kidnaping a capi tal offense.” — /' / 7 SPECIAL OFFER Good Until February 10, 1937 American Magazine, The Woman’s Home Companion, and ColUers, IS months for 04.00. See me for other bargains. JAMES W. 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