Washington, Aug.
anti-climactic conclusion the bitterest Congressional battle in many years, the Vice-President, Mr. John N. Gainer, to-day hammered to Passage' the substitute judiciary bill, under the noses of startled Senators, Senator Warren R. Austin, Republican of Vermont, and Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, Democrat of Illinois, had just concluded a long discussion Jot the substitute measure. Senator Lewis had declared it to be an un-[constitutional violation of; individual rights, Senator Pat MeCarran, Demfocrat of Nevada, thereupon offered several amendments to clarify and strengthen the bill.
The amendments had been hardly: approved when Mr. Garner's vol broke through the confusion, fent objection, the bill has been read Jo third. time, engrossed, and passed," he declared, 'A few stoonds of silence ensued, afler which the Vice-President's gavel smashed on the desk to announce the it's pas Vote Demanded Senator Joseph F. Guffey, Democrat of Pennsylvania, immediately rose to protest and demand a vole. He finally contented himself with an Jannouncement that he would have voted against the bill if he had had 'The bill now goes to the House of Representatives for concurrence, Az stands tow, it calls for reforms in the lower courts, but does not affect the personnel of' the Supreme Court, the main feature of President Roose: velt's original programme.
The Senate later passed a bill to Jauthorize the Chief Clerk to the American High Commissioner for the Philippines and the Assistant High Commissioner to administer oaths, The measure had been opposed Philippine leaders as an implied infringement of Philippine sovereignty.
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