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Show Many Nominees Favor Curb on Supreme Court Utahns, However, Oppose Giving Giv-ing Congress Right to j Override High Tribunal NEW YORK, Oct. 30. Fifty-three nominees for congress In the coming election. Including nine Rcpuhllcane and nineteen Democrats, favor amendment amend-ment of the constitution to permit congress to override and nullify decisions de-cisions of the supreme court 'of the United States, according to resulta of a nationwide-questionnaire on the subject made public today by the 'National Security league. "Tabulation of the returns from favorable repllea from nominee In thirteen, opposition In twenty-two on the part of- all who eent answers, while no replies were received from flv states Among the twenty-eight Republican and Democratic nomlneee favoring an amendment, eight were from Pennsyl- j vanla, five from New York, three , from Michigan, two each from Ohio and Illinois, and one each from Call- fornla, Nebraska, Oklahoma. Virginia. ' Texas, Kansas, Maesachusetts and Missouri. i Twenty-nine noncommittal replies j were received by the Security league, j including one from Senator Johi.son of California, while no repllea were ! received from nominees In Arkansas, i Colorado. Mississippi, Nevada and . New Mexico. Opposition to the proposal. Includ- : Ing rlenarnr Dupont of Delaware and ( Kenator Reed of Pennsylvania. was i voiced In all repllea from the following follow-ing atatea: Alabama, Arixona. Connecticut, Con-necticut, Delaware,' Florida. Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana. Maryland. Montana, New Hampshire, New Jer-sev. Jer-sev. North Dakota. Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, rtah. Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming. |