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Show AUTHORIZE WILSON TO NAME JUDGES WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. By a party vote of 35 to 25 the senate today passed Senator Hoke Smith's bill authorizing the president to appoint an additional federal circuit judire in any district where the incumbent has reached the age of seventy, has served ten years and is suffering from mental or physical disabilities of a permanent per-manent character. Many Republicans contended that the hill is unconstitutional. Senator Cummins proposed the language! adopied relating to mental or physical , disability, replacing the original words . permitting action where the president rinds the "official conduct of the huslness of the court" requires it. The bill now goes to the house. |