Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1937 — Page 5

WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1087

Egotism Blinds Nation to Dictator Peril in Court Reform, Sumners Says

Warns People That Roosevelt's Aims May Easily Fetter Liberty and Enslave America Same as Germany and Italy Under Lone Rulers.

A few hours before the death of Senator Joseph T. Robinson last week, Rep. Hatton W. Sumners of Texas, speaking in the House of Representatives, told why he believes the controversial Supreme Court reorganization bill should be kept out of the House. At that time the bill had been debated for six days, with increasing bitterness, in the Senate. As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Mr. Sumners has the most powerful single voice in the House on legislation affecting the courts and any bill passed by the Senate would be referred to his Committee. His speech, interpreted as 2 warning that the Committee would never report out the bill now before the Senate, was in quality and timing one of the most dramatic Congressional utterances of many years. While reported at the time, it received less emphasis of detail than it might have been given if the shock of Senator Robinson's death had not followed so closely. We print herewith from that speech, covering the general effect of what Chairman Sumners had to say,

By HATTON W. SUMNERS House Judiciary Committee Chairman Mr. Speaker, I am going to try this afternoon to be useful to the public interest in a situation which we must all regard as very serious. When we look about us at the nations of the earth today, we know that free government, popular government on earth, relatively speaking, is disappearing. We know that as a people, as a nation, we are at the crossroads in America. Soon we must determine whether or not we are going to

preserve Anglo-Saxon institutions in this country or join the other | nations of the earth under a dic- | tator. People do not have dictators | merely because they choose to have dictators. They have dictators when | their problems exceed the govéin- | mental capacity of their Now, write that down, please, The people of Germany lost the | power to govern and Hitler came | to govern when the people of Germany {failed to provide in themsselves an agency through which the Government of Germany could be carried on and meet its problems, Deceived by ‘Egotism’ We think these things cannot come to us. We are deceived by a perfectly ridiculous egotism. Is there anybody who has any sense who does not know that the problems of this hour challenge us to produce the most united people and the most capable people who ever assumed the responsibility of government on the face of this earth? What is happening to us? Are we moving toward a greater solidarity of the people? Are we moving toward « greater solidarity in the Senate of the United States? Are we moving toward a greater co-operation of effort between the President of the United States and the legislative branch of the Government? If not, in what direction, then, are we moving? I am going to talk a little about the Supreme Court situation, and I shall try to do it in a very helpful way. I want to talk just as plainly this afternoon as I can, and, as God knows my heart, I want to do good for my country. I am for the President of the United States and I am for my country. I do not want to discuss the provisions of the pending bill, I want to direct your attention, however, to the havoc which that bill is now working in the solidarity of the nation. A few years ago this Administration came to power in an hour of public danger. One of the most | fascinatingly interesting govern- | mental phenomena to be observed among the people of the earth oc- | curred. I was here during the Wilson Administration, and I saw | that thing happen then. ‘A Good Job’ | Our people, Anglo-Saxon people, | have the remarkable genius of sens- | ing the existence of a condition which requires a greater pickup and stronger power than their institutions ordinarily afford. I saw it in the Wilson Adminis- |

leaders. | |

ing the Government over to a dictator, as other peoples do, the people gave temporary power to Mr. Wilson to do all that a dictator could do, and had the genius to retain the power, to control its exercise, if necessary, and the ability to recapture and distribute it. I do not know whether Mr. Wilson misunderstood his commission, his trusteeship, or not; but when, under the influence of the same An-glo-Saxon governmental instinct, it seemed the time came when that governmental power should have been sent back into the AngloSaxon institutions, Mr. Wilson did not recognize it, He was not well. I pray God the same thing may not happen this time. Mr. Speaker, when this Administration came into power, that identical thing nappened. The people said, stand by the President. I stood by the President, not always, but generally. I wanted always to stand with him. He did a good job—a mighty good job, but let nobody misunderstand what it cost to do that job. I am not talking merely about these billions of dollars that were expended, but about what it cost us in morale, in self-reliance, in independence, from the individual up through the small community and the state. Thirty-six billion dollars is the Government's debt today — and $2,000,000,000 more this year have

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been spent than we have taken in. Where is that moving us toward? It is moving us toward bankruptcy, of course. The President wants to turn about, he says, and I believe him. I want to help him.

If I can help prevent this House splitting wide open, if I can help to prevent cleavage between the President and this House, or substantial parts of it, at this time when he needs and the country needs just the reverse of what is in the Senate and what is threatened in the

| | House, I will be helping the Presi-

dent and I will be helping my country, I believe, more than those who are advising him now, when there is not enough left in this contro-

stration; and then, instead of turn=|ya,sy to justify the hurt which is

being done by its continuance. When these states and municipalities, when individuals, private citizens and others are moving on the Federal Treasury, when there is no money in the Treasury, where is that leading us? It is moving us toward bankruptcy in money and in self-reliance and Independence and in those virtues which make it possible for a people to preserve a system of self-government.

Concerned Over Senate

I believe the President recognizes that fact. I believe he is getting ready, and the country is getting ready, and you are getting ready to tackle this job. And it is not going to be ah easy job, either. There is

I do not want in this House, if we can avoid it, what is happening in and to the other body. I am concerned for my friends over there (in the Senate). Since Feb. 5 this controversy has worn and consumed their energy and selfrestraint and poured out among them the vials of bitterness which has gone deeply into their relationships. That is not good for them. It is

not good for the country. For the sake of the membership of the

House, for the sake of the country, |§

I devoutly hope that experience and that hurt can be avoided by the consideration and sound judgment of those in responsibilty.

I do not believe, as I size up the | 5

situation, as I consider our difficulties, with the friction developing worse and worse within our gov-

ernmental organization, that we will be in shape to tackle our job. Is that sound? I mean just horse sense. How important is it to do the job?

key position in the world today for liberty as against autocracy.

(A second series of excerpts from Rep. Sumner's speech, telling why he believes

going to be lots of trouble about it.

unnecessary, will follow.)

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