Show SALT LAKE PRESS LAUDS SEN WILLIAM H KING senator william 11 king demo ceat from utah whose birth place was fillmore fellmore was highly praised la in tho the editorial appearing in th tho 0 trl tri bune under date of june 16 for the aha stand he had bad taken in the supreme court controversy which has perhaps become the most important national issue in many years senator king prepared with the assistance of other members of the senate judiciary committee tho the majority report of that commIt committee Aea w wiloh foh Is opposed to the adoption of the presidents bill tor for revamping the supreme court the report was adopted by a vote or of 10 to 8 of the eighteen members on the judiciary committee 14 are democrats 3 republicans and one an independent T the la e democrats were equally divided on the issue the republicans were against it and the independent senator norris of nebraska was tor for the measure concluding their report the majority members ask that the reorganization measure be defeated so eo overwhelm angly that its parallel will never again be presented to a tree free american people mark sullivan tribune columnist calls the report of the committee an historic document stating t that h a t there are sentences sentences and passages worthy to stand with the CL classic Iassic pleas tor for independence ot of the courts made by patrick henry john marshall edmund burke and many others sullivan states that while the report may sound technical and unta te resting in its first pages pageo this was made necessary by the presidents bill which was purposely maretech made technical and involved the ae committee commett had to untangle what had been deliberately libera tely tangled we quote here from the concluding paragraph of 0 the report this bill Is an invasion of 0 judicial power such as has hag never before been attempted in this country it applies force to the judiciary and its initial and ultimate effect would undermine the independence of 0 the courts shall we now after years of 0 loyalty to the constitutional ideal of an untrammeled judiciary duty bound to protect the constitutional rights ot of the humblest cut citizens even against the government itself create the vicious precedent which must necessarily undermine our system it is a measure which should be ba ko bo emphatically rejected that lla its parallel will never again aguin be presented to the trea free of the tree free de people ople of america |