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| Preme Court can see the Capitol through the trees in front. of their marble palace and they certainly know that Spone , i Senate chamber that the court | for reflising to Produce itz meni- -| bership) list. - Washington, June 9.-The nine’ members of the zors of a bill to curb the court’s powers are getting migh restive because other legislation is getting Senate right of way. Obviously, that was not the reason the court handed | down a series of comparatively minor decisions today. But with ,i rtagt | rulings on Communist and civil rights cases definitely slate te be acted on befora the Summer re- cess, there were suspicions in the ee wouid iike nothing better than to delay these until the justices have their bags packed and can get out of town until October. - Those upcoming decisions ha : the potential of firing up court critics in Corgress and put. ting new oomph behind the pres- sure to get the curb bill before the Senate. One case, for example fonceris the $100,000 fine upheld by Alabama state courta-against the National Association for the | Advanvement of Colored Peonta aor Othe controversial cases on which rifings are due involve (Dp the power of the government to deny ign the to these refusing to sign non-Communist af- fidavit, (2) the right of s state’. dismise an- employe takin: the ‘Fifth Amendment’ and (38 the rg onatitutionslity of Galifore.—..-- -Ria’s requirement that applicants ““" - for property tax, an ae Ph 1oyaity eaiha,- 27, o totirt -None of these was “actel, on ft eo weeks the justices will be. put co ee er ee ee today, yet fa Ewe oe Sean rama rats two ot 4 a wat tight bill, but they don’t know how much I Ik they can keep it p’, led." mee |, the Senate Judiciary ‘mittee, bya vote o.@-6, approved ‘the first week in ‘May ‘under “club rules” le ation et this Smportant committes cann sidetracked indefini eae ete ea? Pans - + The sorimittes's hill ‘would pie ent the: high court from ™ aside state rules for admission to the bar, would prohibit the from judging ‘a Congresslonal comm{teela. suthority to question nesses, and reinstate state sedition laws witieh the ecurt bas ‘inval id. The measure also clarifies the anti-cubversion Smith “These court curbs ‘were committee's answer to past dec! which freed Communist leader - ‘fiteve Nelsen, 14 West Conat munists, and labor leader John Watkins who had refused to before the House Un-American Activities Committee, As fo issue of admission’ to the bar, the court had ordered = M lawyer and another. from California given though they refused to answer questions on Communist efiiliatio oo 7 +f Bistering Battle fe Store Z2 v5 "’ Sen, Thomas Hennings (D-Mo.), who opposed the bill and ’ against it in committee, agreed today that it would have to be pt Gp UGS Sessidt, | But hs warned that tws or three weeks ¢ oe de was certain, Both su porters and opponents of the bill fores: blistering battle in w' eh ch party Vines. disappear obce the Jegiala gets on the floor for « show Typical of the strong Teles enerated by the fasue are re Congressional Record quotes, Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) bla the il as dangerous, “reversing years of judicial and legisls istory”” . 4am thie aoesian and “the result of its passage woul chaos.” Kefauver put in the record recommendations of an Amer Bar Association committee that the legislation be killed “as an at on the independence of the judiciary, destructive of the separa of powers contemplated by the Constitution.” “ bo . Jenner Quofes a Shot at Wien. | ae - Sen. William Jenner (R-Ind.} chief sponsor of the bill, of in reply a speech deliyered by # Georgia lawyer in which’ these paragraphs could be noted by Senate members: - “In all literature no clearer description of Earl Warren may found than that spoken of a buresucrat on the floor of the Unit States Senate in 1825 by John Randolph, of Roanoke: (++ ~-¢ “‘His mind is like the Susquehanna Flats—naturally poor : made less fertile by cultivation. Never has ability so far be mediocrity been 80 richly rewarded since ee horse was mm consul.’ ” aremge 3 pe > Boys Are Just Rehearsing © eR a er ee . (All this is a mere_rehearsal to the bitter onslan hts on court—and the equally fiery defense. of the court—that can te expetted when the Senate finally takes up the great issue. There will be plenty of good historica] allusions for both sk Back in 1857 Abe Lincoln denounced the Supreme Court for Dred Scott decision which was then lauded by Southern Senat The court ‘was also defended by Southern Senators and Governors the mid-1930s when F.D.R. tried to pack it, Georgia’s Eugene 1 madge helped organize a committee to. save the court from F.D. but times change and his son, Sen. Herman Taimadge, now aceu the justices of trying to establish “g nine-man Aictatorship.” ~ The Senate Democratic Policy Committee, meeting tomorr may decide on « time for considering the court curb measure. Whi Sen. Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex.} and his lieuterfants would like to ¢ is get “must” bills out of the way and then in the closing weeks « the session bring up the court bill—letting H_be talked te deat But they are | are facea with several problems. One is that Chairm James 0. Eastland (D Miss}: ye the Judiciary Committee wants acti if, forced, he will offer the court-curb aa an amendment te t Alasks statehood bilL- - . . oa re, BE ats Ws oe EE Jtaie Su 4 - R. ¥. DAILY NEWS 62-2765 A NOT +} RECORDEL 44.23 1958 “yhive —— nese enmminl