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...seemed a virtual certainty that Justice Sutherland's successor onetime (1925-33) Senator from New Mexico, but every political wiseacre had his tip on the probable choice. The House Judiciary Committee did not neglect to send the President a resolution asking him to appoint its chairman-Texas' Hatton W. Sumners...
...Year, 1937, I nominate Congressman Hatton W. Sumners of Texas. Here is a statesman and a great patriot, a man with the courage of his convictions. His speech on the floor in Congress, in opposition to the Court packing plan, will go down in history as one of the most important factors in the defeat of that bill...
...President, not only giving him the opportunity to appoint anyone he wished to the Supreme Court instead of Senator Robinson who had a virtual claim on the one existing vacancy, but also because dropping the Court fight might prevent a permanent split in the party. The speech of Hatton Sumners, which the House had so vigorously applauded, was full of such sentiments...
...Constitution an amendment would be proposed. Not yet cold were hopes that passing a bill to permit Supreme Court justices to retire on full pay (a bill that has passed the House and is up in the Senate) would achieve the President's object without criticism. Chair-man Hatton W. Sumners of the House Judiciary Committee which sponsored this bill had no enthusiasm for the President's proposal. One committeeman, Representative Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn, growled last week as he left the White House that he was opposed "to packing the Court with six new members...
...wind blew. Letters from constituents and memorials from State Legislatures were mostly pro-Court, but there were enough pro-President to give Congressmen pause. Asked why he had suddenly canceled plans to introduce two non-controversial items of the President's program in a separate bill, Chairman Hatton W. Sumners of the House Judiciary Committee spoke the troubled mind of many another Congressman: "The visibility is poor, it's foggy, the barometer is too low and the wind is not in the right direction. So I decided not to take...