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0-19 (Rew, 10-26-57) ; of The St, Louis Post-Dispatch, } me Jenner bill Se {YBNNER BILL SEEN | «THREAT 10 COURT ‘Editorial Writér, Hailed by Liberties Union, Warns of Crippling High Tribunal By MURRAY a, i A warning of attempts to | “cripple” the Supreme Court and to “erect spite walls’ around it was sounded yesterday at the } annual conference of the New York Civil Liberties Union. The warning was given by; Irving Dilliard, editorial writer!: SOLS se, after he had received the Fiorina! Lasker Civil Liberties Award of|' $1,000 for outstanding work in| the field of civil liberties. Mr, Diltiara telg the canfer- ence's luncheon session that Senate Bill 2646, submitted by Senator William E. Jenner, Re-! publican of Indiana, was intend- ed to “cripple. the Supreme Court” because of recent rulings favoring civil liberties, Vindictiveness Charged Speaking in the Hotel, Mr, Dilliard declared that ‘would have Congress vindictively retaliate against the Supreme Court for|’ some eight civij liberties ae, cisions." ‘ He said that the proposed|! legislation would bar the court|; “from appellate jurisdiction in), five important fields, such as Government employment in loy- alty investigations.” He said the bill also would “block the Supreme Court out in cases involving teachers and lawyers caught in the same net.” Mr. Dilliard continued: ~ “Phe proponents of the Jenner bill and the many other pending attacks on the Supreme Court would have the American people beligve that our high bench to- day"is packed with irresponsible |’ jurists of oné reckless mind. Actually the nine jurists who make up our Supreme Court now are probably more repre- sentative than the psmbers of pee aes Supfeme rt] eh 39° 64 MAR 18 7959 Roosevelt! + Congressional investigations g°0 O " _Mr. Dillard noted that | the upreme Court justices Fear owe crete commana 19 to Prescott Frankiin D, Roose- ‘welt and two to President @. Truman. : He feclared that geographically @ = Fustices Were “more widely representa- tive of the entire nation than at any time in its history.” fet ” After pointing to their widely baneng qualifications for the , Be said: ne notion that such a ip of men, 80 variously ex- rienced and aseamblad ouranld ay Mere cRR ek, Oe ither deliberately op ly blind to the ju ost 8 e around our highest tribunal.” | A panel discussion on “Wire- tapping and Eavesdropping” followed the luncheon session. Stanley J. Tracy, Washington. lawyer and former assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said: “Uncontrolled wiretapping and eavesdropping constitute a substantial threat to individual ‘liberty, but properly restricted, these activities are essential, if not indispensable, to both na- tional and individual security." Edward ‘Bennett Williams, Professor of Law at Georgetown ; tan laweye and also a Washing- ton lawyer, said that although Congress had made it a crime to tap telephones or to use in- formation obtained from taps, “the Federal Bureau of Investi- gation has been and is contin- uously aig in this illicit act, anditbag gone and-e-going Pelee per 3 944 ” Tolson yeqerdman ¢imont A Moht ae . arao osen Tamm ‘ Trotter Clayton —__— Tele. Room Holloman — @andy a LA-215 GE- | SORT oT RECORDED "7 MAR L# 1958 Wash. Post and " - —TMHISE Herald Wash. News —— Wash, Star N. Y. Herald — Tribune N, Y. Journal-_— wast Ametican N. Y. Mirror —— N. Y. Daily Nev N. Y. Times — Daily Worker — The Worker New Leader — Date MAR 2 195¢