Washington, July 6.
The prolonged and bitter battle over President Roosevelt's proposal to enlarge the personnel of the United States Supreme Court reached a sudden and dramatic climax today when the programme was withdrawn and a compromise measure introduced.
Senator Joseph Robinson, majority leader in the upper house of Congress, to-day withdrew from consideration the original measure which would have given the President authority to appoint as many as six new justices of the Supreme Court, one for each present, member over the age of seventy.
As soon as Senator Robinson announced his action, the Senate agreed to the immediate consideration of a substitute measure. The new plan is designed to permit the appointment of three new justices within six months after the bill is enacted by Congress, Although President Roosevelt not long ago spurned a compromise measure advanced: by Senator Pat McCarran, Democrat of Nevada. calling for appointment of four instead Of six new justices, it was apparent that Congressional hostility would have prevented passage of the original programme.
The agreement upon a compromise is expected to permit the adjournment of Congress' at a date earlier than previously anticipated, as the court-reform plan was the principal stumbling-block to disposition of the legislative programme.—United Press.
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