Economic, Labour and Other Issues to Be Discussed Washington, July 28.
Sen. Sherman Minton, Democrat of Indiana, to-day renewed the proposal io curb the power of the Supreme Court as Sen. Pat McCarran, Democrat of Nevada, formally reported a substitute Judiciary Bill, stripped of Il provisions affecting the high tribunal.
Senator Minton, an Administration man, said he would offer an amendment to require the Supreme Court to have a two-thirds majority to declare any act of Congress unconstitutional. proposal immediately ow the opposition of Sen, Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat of Montana, leader of the group which defeated President Roosevelt's Supreme Court bill and dictated the nature of the substitute measure reported out by ihe Judiciary Committee to-day. Senator Wheeler said he considered Brussels, July 29.
It is stated that the governing body of the "International Labour Office intends to convene an international coal conference at the end of this year, in which eight countries, including British. France and Belgium, have already consented to take part.
The conference, it is added, will not only deal with the question of hours of labour but also with problems of general economic interest affecting the coal industry, such as production and transport.
It is believed the conference will the Minton amendment would be a violation of the agreement by which the historic five-months war over the Roosevelt court programme was ended. Senator McCarran predicted Senator Minton's proposal would start another battle in the Senate.
The Senate late to-day defeated by a vote of 56 to 19 the Lodge amendment to the Wages and Hours Bill, providing for readjustment of tariff rates in cases where foreign competi-ton increased as result of the operation of the measure.—United Press. meet in Brussels.—Trans-Ocean.
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