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Se eee alma sels rnd dain linens ada oe O-f0 (Hav. 9-7-54) . E a . 7 { - . a . = ¢ . Washington, July 14.—In the quarter of a century that; this newsman hag covered the Capital we have re : formal investigations of every branch of.government—with ; one outstanding exception, This is the-Supreme Court of : the United States, '}. ‘The White House—from Harding’s Teapot Dome to. Rooseyelt’s : Pearl Harbor and “Yalta—has been investigated. So has‘every feds : ,eral department and agency. Congtess has even investigated its own committees—and come up with ces the interesting information that although committee reports and recommendations were signed by such honest American Senators as Gerald Nye, Harley Kilgore, .Claude Pepper, James Murray or ‘Robert La¥ollette “they had been _ Written largely by an Alger Hiss, ‘John Abt, Henry Collins or other famart Communists or. fellowes traveler.” | ‘ . And come to think 6f it, be- fore Hiss went to work on the ,Nye munitions investigation he ‘was the bright young law secre- tary to one of our most distin- guished membera of the Supreme Sieg tv By JOHN O'DONNELL, _ ee a | So we've read with Warm ap- proval the proposal of National view editor James Burnham ‘that Congress drop those wild and whirling wo about im- ‘peachment, ete. - and reread stitution, "This flatly siates that _ stitution, F] ys a P , after the Supreme Court takes Alexander Hamilton i “jurisdiction over cases involving ' Ye put court in minor place |‘ foreign diplomats and disputes between sovereign states, it ia then . lyestrained “by such exceptions and under such regulations as the Congress shall make” when it comes to taking any appellate juris ction, na to law and fact. QL: ee , . The heart of the Burnham proposal rests in the paragraphs: <7? ,° “In @ republic there is not ing sacrosanct about the judiciary, to exempt it from scrutiny by the legislative representatives of the’ people. If the judiciary has nothing to hide—as we must presumeg*" kt should welcome a serious and public inquiry. Lf the judges hays | then inching heyond thelr due role in'a republican system, an 3 investi ation by the sovereign legislature is an ideal means to min them fe of the traditional duties and restraints that bind éhe atriie fudicial conscience. oie cm lb Alabaster. wl _ b2- 971565. A C93 Thar recone 44 jul 29 957. 5 7 JUL 31 1957 —_——_— a 4 t enamel i . ee Ad Rosen 1 ge — Tamm rotter ease Tele. Room Yo Holloman Wash, Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N. Y. Journal- American N.Y. Mirror N. Y. Daily News —4 N. Y. Times Daily Worker ___- The Worker New Leader Date MUL 15 1957