Fresh "N.R.A." Bill Washington, July 22.
The last nail was driven to-day in the cofün of President Roosevelt's Supreme Court Enlargement Bill when the Senate voted by seventy votes to twenty in favour of returning the Bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee with instructions to prepare a new measure, Abandonment of the Reform plan had been virtually assured earlier io-day when the Judiciary Committee asked the Senaie to return the Bill to them with directions to draft a substitute within ten days dealing only with the lower courts.
The vote of the Senate preceded a dramatic meeting of the Committee at which the vice-President, Mr, John Nance Garner, conceded that the Supreme Court Bill was "out of the window."
Mr. Garner, it was stated, pleaded with the Committee, with tears in his eyes, for a settlement of the differences, after which the Committee agreed to ask the Senate for instructions to draft a substitute, The new measure, it is understood, will provide, among other things, for a direct appeal to the Supreme Court in constitutional cases and for the appointment of lower court judges on the basis that they need not be of the age of the existing judges.—Reuter.
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