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Show CHIEF JUSTICE'S SCATHING REBUKE WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. A scathing scath-ing rebuke administered by Chief Justice Jus-tice While to one of the lawyers attacking at-tacking the law enlivened argument before the supreme court today in cases testing the constitutionality of the army draft act. J. Gordon Jones, representing Albert Jones, convicted in Georgia of failing to register, declared the law was unconstitutional un-constitutional because it required men to take part in a war which had never received the people's approval. His re- I marks were cut short. I "I don't think your statement has anything to do with the legal argu- jments." said the chief Justice sharply, j "and should not have been said to this court. It is a very unpatriotic statement state-ment to make." The attorney apologized and continued contin-ued his argument. I Counsel in nine pending suits ad-, I dressed the court,. They admitted tho j right of the government to draft citizens citi-zens through the state militia, but not as individuals and contended the law prevents political and religious, freedom free-dom and denies citizens equal protection. protec-tion. Harry Weinberger of New York, representing Emma Goldman and Alexander Al-exander Berkman, confined his attack principally to the assertion that the I law deprives citizens of religious lib- j erty and added the government has no right to grant exemptions on religious I grounds. Others argued that judicial j power was usurped by delegating to the president authority to establish j local draft boards to determine what. I men should be chosen for service and i which excepted. Solicitor General Davis for the government gov-ernment will reply tomorrow. |