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...opponents of his bill were strong if not in numbers at least in conviction, in experience and ability. The opposition included all 16 Republicans in the Senate, from Youngster Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (chosen to read Washington's Farewell Address* to the Senate on Feb. 22) to Oldster Borah, and they included such veterans as Hiram Johnson, Arthur Vandenberg and Gerald Nye. The Democrats aligned solidly with these included such gentlemen as Glass & Byrd of Virginia, Connally of Texas, Bailey of North Carolina, Wheeler of Montana, Clark of Missouri, Burke of Nebraska, George of Georgia, Van Nuys of Indiana...
...those who opposed him thoroughly aired their opinion that he was too closely connected with conservatism and entrenched wealth. Half the Senators who voted against him are now dead or retired, but of those who remain the great majority are today opposed to President Roosevelt's Court plan: Borah, Glass, Connally, George, Hiram Johnson, Nye, Wheeler. Vice-versa, Senators Ashurst and Pat Harrison, both now pro-Roosevelt, were then both pro-Hughes, and Senator Robinson was paired in his favor. Only a few, notably Hugo Black and Bob La Follette, were against Mr. Hughes then...
Died. Gottlieb Baumgartner, 49, chief of the U. S. Senate Restaurant since 1919; after a fortnight's illness; in Washington. Senator Borah: "One of the finest characters it ever has been my good fortune to know...
...illness, were ranged along the board according to precedence. Senator Ashurst and Representative Summers, heads of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, who before the week was out were to be handed a bill to dilute the power of the honored guests, were also at the table. Likewise Senator Borah, who had just stood up for the Court, Attorney General Cummings whom the Justices have often worsted, and several gentlemen who, although the august Justices did not know it, might soon be their colleagues, notably Solicitor General Stanley Forman Reed and Lawyer Donald Randall Richberg. Few of the guests...
...there any doubt on which side the stentorian logic of Senator Borah would be heard. He said the President's message was too important to comment upon ex tempore, but four days before it was delivered the Independent from Idaho had put himself emphatically on record as opposed to letting the New Deal overrule the Supreme Court except by a Constitutional amendment: "If the people desire that the Federal Government shall have control over their local affairs it is for the people to say so . . . in the manner pointed out by the Constitution...