The attack upon tke Constitution was received with definite coldness.
was perfectly clear, that it was useless fo think of making a campaign issue out of the matter. Any such attempt would probably play into the Republicans hands and tive them the very issue for whicl: they had'so far been searching in vain, When the Press crowded into the President's study after the decision they heard _no Philipple against the Suprom The President merely said majority and minority opinions were of such Importance that he must give very careful study to them. When he finally spoke it was in a very detach~ way. The new conditions which the Supreme Court had created were accepted without praise or blame, and Ways and means were proposed for dealing with the agricultural problem within tke Limits laid down by the majority decision.
The majority decision was lengthy, but the essential fact it established was that the Federal Government had ho power to control crop production. The processing tax which it ha levied under A.A.A. to provide funds for benefit checks given farmers who vedueed their acreage was [constitutional tax since it formed part and parcel of a scheme to accomplish an unconstitutional purpose,
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