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WwOoULD REFORM TEE
SUPREME
COURT.
A movement
to eurb
the
powers
of the
suprene
court
has long had
the
supoort
of suzh
radicals
as
Senators
lLa
[ollette
and Borah, Republicans.
Now, however,
Senator
Fess
of Ohio,
a
conservative
of
the same
party,
has
coma
out in favor of
legislation requiring
concurrerce
of
at
least
six of the nine justices
to
dezlare
a
law uneonstitutional.
Senator
Fess
does
not
believe
acts
of
congress
should
be
s>t aside
by a
five-to four
vote
because,
as;
he
says,
this
permits
one
man
to
change
a
decision.
‘'When
the
act
of
one department
involving the
judzement
of 531 members
of
house
and
sqnate
is
adjudged
by
another
department
com-
posed
of nine
members,
the
aect
should
not be
set aside
as uneonstitutiwnal
by
a
five-to-four
vote,””
he
dzclares.
‘lt
mizht
mean
making
a
law voil by
so
nar-
row a deeision
that
one
man
is
unpire.
This close decision
has
several
times
in
the past
set aside
a
iaw.
It
was
so
in
Ohio until 4922
when
we
changed
it.”’
Senator
Borah
has
introduced
a
bill
requiring
the concurrence
of
seven
jus-
tices
to nullify an act
ot
congress.
Sen-
ator La Follette proposes
a constitutional
a nendment
which wonld enable
congress
by a two-thirds majority, to vver-ride tke
-upreme
court’s ruling,
as
in the
case
of
a presidential
veto.
To this last proposal
however,
Senator
Fess
strongly
objects.
I would
resist,
as
supremely
vicious,
the proposal
to reverse
the court decision
py
a vote of congress,””
he
says.
“‘That
would annul the
very genious
of
our
in-
stitucions
by annihilating
the
indepand-
ence of the courts,
which
is
tantamount
to
destroving
the
court’s
purpose.’’
Extra=_//.
-
8.15.
THIS EVENING
8.15.
“Elaine
H
in”
aine
nammersteln
IN
“H.NDCUFFS OR KISSES”
A
;
DO REFORMATORIES
REFORM
YOUNG GIRLS ?
This Question
is
Answered
By ELAINE HAMMVERSTEIN In ““Handcuffs
or Kisses”’.
Ihe Sociologienl*Aspects
of this Picture
are Strongly
Condemnatory
of the
Modern
Reformatories
for Incorrigible Girls, and,
if the
Conditions
Exist
as Portrayed.
they
are
a
d.sgrace
to Civilization.
The
Injustice
to
a Young Girl,
Railroaded
into
a Penal
In-
stitution.
and
her Eforts
to
¢hym2 back,
make
an
Appeiling Tale
o
Humn
Interest,
enlisting the Spzctators
Interest.
THURSDAY EVENING
3
:
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66
b
“Gladys Brickwel
in
“Taz Sage
Hen”.
ADMISSION
CRRRRERTSL
TN
S
B
eR
R
G
ELe Bl BRLOB.
.. i s
i
e
o 1
Children
15¢. and
10e.
Champions
of the present
practice
argue
that
as congress
makes
its own rules,
so
the sujreme
court
should
be
_ft
to
say
what majority shal! gover:
its
decisions.
Ounite often
a law
passes
congress
by
a
mwarzin
of only
one
vote,
and
yet the
law is just
as valid as
if
it
were
passed
unanimous'y.
If we
onc2
begin
to
de-
cide things by the size
of
the
majority,
instead
of by merely
a majority,
there
is
no telling how
our system
of covertment
may
be revamped,
the conservatives
suy.
The Pathfinder,
145th April.
estimated
at $200,000
all t?e
130 students
escaped
in safety.
Investigation
reveal-
ed
a
kerosene
lamp
which
had
never
been
seen
around
the
college
be-
fore.
Previous
to the
fire
Rev. Louis
A.
Daydier,
presidert
of
the
college,
re-
ceived
a letter threatening
the
buildings
with
destruetion.—
[bid.
for
the
6th
Ordinary
Meeting
of
the Colonial
Council for St.
Croix,
MONDAY,
APRIL 23
1023
at
ONEOCIOCK
P M
1.
Colonial
Council
Bill No 11.
Introduction
of and
lst discussion
on
Colonial
Council
Bill No.
11,
draft of
an ordinance
introduced
by
Govern-
ment
concerning
insanit;
law.
2.
Colonial
Council
Bill No.
12.
Introduction
of and Ist Discussion
on
Colonial
Couneil
Bill No.
12, draft of
an
ordinanc2
introduced
by
Govern-
ment,
providing for the
assessment,
levy and
collection
of
taxes
for
the
Municipa ity of St.
Croix.
Colonial Zouncil Office,
St. Croix, April
16,
1922.
:
F. COULTER,
Viee-Chairman.
VOLSTEAD RETIRES
FROM
PO-
LIIIICS.
After
20
years
in
congress
Andiew
Volstead,
author of the
prohibition
law,
intends
to resume
the practice
of
law
at
Granite
Falls,
Minn.
He
says
there
is
nothing in the political
game.
"By
the
|
time
a
congressman
finances
his
cam-
|
paign and pays
the high
prices
for
rent
|
and food at Washington,”’
declared
N
Volstead,
‘‘he has
nothing
lett.” —lbid.
CATHOLIC COLLEGE BURNED.
:
Assumption
college,
a
Catholic
institu-
|
tion at Greendale,
Mass..
was
destroyed
|
by fire.
Although
the
financial
loss
is