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Two G. M. Mahonebi the 7^th Coiiglre#*
THURSDAY, rJANlUBYg, 1937
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Ro^velt Plans To OiU Confer-
inct To Discuss StatOs of
High Tribunal.
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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-
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.”
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