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Show Senate Majority Leader Stricken In His Apartment By LYLE (,'. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 14 U.R) Senate Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson died alone in his apartment today a few hundred yards from the legislative chamber where his political poli-tical career was coming to angry climax in the fight to enact $ jrreaiaent rwuseven a yian iv .reorganize .re-organize the judiciary. Robinson was 65. His 'body was discovered pajama-clad and he was pronounced dead at 8:15 a. m. (6:15 a. m. MST) by Dr. Warren Fletcher, President Roosevelt will attend funeral services for Robinson in the senate Chamber and Vice -President John N. Garner will attend at-tend the burial services to be held in Little Rock, Ark., according to tentative plans announced by the White House. 24 Years Service Robinson leaves the senate after 24 years service and on the eve of new honors. He was the choice of his colleagues for the supreme cdurt vacancy created by retire- WASHINGTON, July 14 (U.R) After a 44-minute session ses-sion devoted entirely to tributes trib-utes to its departed majority leader, - Sen. Joseph T. Rob- inson, the senate adjourned today until noon tomorrow. Thus an end was brought to the "legislative day of July 6" Tlie parliamentary device de-vice which Robinson hlmseLf had invoked as a weapon against filibustering tftctics In the judiciary fight. Sen. Alben W. Barklcy, D., j Ky., assistant floor leader; I said today that in all proba- bility, no legislation will be I discussed until next week. i ment of Justice Willis Van De-vanter De-vanter and it generally was realized real-ized in Washington that Mr. Roosevelt intended to reward his old and faithful servant in that way. The senator was not on the senate sen-ate floor yesterday although he appeared briefly at the capitol for L cloak room reports of the battle into which he was leading the New Deal forces. Court debate had been underway just seven 1 days when the senator died. Death Interrupts Debate His death will abruptly if temporarily tem-porarily interrupt senate debate of the court proposal. He leaves the senate and his party torn by the bitterest debate since "a little group of willful men" scuttled Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations. Na-tions. The Democratic party in the senate now will enter into a contest over the leadership with the outcome likely to indicate the extent to which Robinson's removal remov-al from the scene has diminished chances of ramming the court bill through a reluctant congress. Sen. Alt-en W. Barkley, D., Ky., and assistant leader is the candidate candi-date of those Democrats who insist in-sist that Mr. Roosevelt shall be authorized to expand the court. Sen. Pat Harrison, D., Ky., and Sen. James F. Byrnes, D., S. C, are contenders less sympathetic than Barkley with court reorganization reorgan-ization and, of late, they have been in far from complete agreement agree-ment with Mr. Roosevelt's spending, spend-ing, labor and judiciary policies. Showdown Coming The showdown will come in party caucus where the 76 senate Democrats will ballot to determine deter-mine whether they shall be led during the remainder of the second sec-ond Roosevelt administration by a senator committed to unqualified acceptance of White House policies poli-cies or by a man of critical if friendly attitude. |