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Show KING HOLDS UP VOTE ON COiM PLAN WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (U.R) Objections by Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, R., Ore., and Sen. William H. King, D., Utah, today delayed senate action on the bill providing pro-viding full pay retirement for supreme court justices at the age of 70. Delay in consideration of the re-retirement re-retirement measure came after Sen. Rush D. Holt, D., W. Va., announced an-nounced he was joining: the senate group opposing President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's judiciary , reorganization. Holt's announcement brought the opponent's group total to 35. The retirement bill, considered by some congressional loaders as a possible basis for compromise on the president's reorganization plan, was on the calendar and called call-ed by the clerk during the calendar calen-dar hour. Thin Unlimited Debate McNary and King asked tnat it be laid over. Sen. Pat McCarran, D., Nev., handling the bill, later tried to return to consideration of the measure, but his move was halted by objections. The Nevada senator did not press his motibn. He was expected to try to bring the measure up later this week in an effort to get speedy action on the bill. In view of the number of senators sena-tors who have stated opposition to the program, senate leaders declared de-clared that unlimited senate debate on the plan was certain. To restrict re-strict senate debate by cloture rules a two-thirds vote is necessary. neces-sary. "The supreme court proposal as I view it, is not sound nor honest," Holt said. "If we are to correct these problems prob-lems we have to do it in a fundamental funda-mental way. I prefer a constitutional constitu-tional amendment as it is more permanent and certainly , more i democratic," Holt said. The junior jun-ior West Virginia senator, long at odds with administration Democrats, Demo-crats, said he has polled citizens of his state and out of 3,500 replies re-plies tabulated 84.1 per cent against the proposal. "Farmers are more opposed than any other group," Holt said. |
