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i) a bi Urges Cut in mal | { Dt Hidh Co urtt gersyrr ws oEnd lm Crna imp Because of Dis ualifications, ae Says“ By WILLIAM MOORE Attorney General Biddle recom mended _lesie*Spizht —that th ded_lnspespicht that the uorium of thi reme Court reduced from ted Rointment of New Dealers from his official family to the Suprems Court Biddle urged: Congress to re duce the statutory quorum amual Department of Justice ye Bort in the two-nowses Disqua fied From Case The Supreme Court has been unab) oo rtices to assist when & querum could not be obtained. Biddle, however, asked © gress to pass a bill introduced ty Senator OMahoney (D.}, ef s|Wyoming, to establish a majority of the court, or five of tha ning justices, as a quorum. Biddle’s recommendation came as the feud in the Supreme Court was at its height, Members of the; | court have recently been sniping verbally at each other in their opinions. One faction is led by Justice Frankfurter, No. 1 adviser Ey President Roosevelt, and the other by Justices Black and Murphy. . | Faulty War Material Biddle also recommended Ie to hear two major cases|Jation making the intent recently because of the number of |Manufacture or delivery of defec- justices who have disqualified tive war material punishable as themselves. Previous connection | With the Htigation concerned is {0 hl ah impasse Which men sabotage. The present sabotage law does not cover all such cases, the usual reason for disqualifica-|80 that the only prosecution pos- | thon, the justices having had a ‘hand in the cases as an officer of ;the Department of Justice or an office holder in a Government agency before appointment to the Supreme Court, The two major cases‘now stale- mated are an anti-trust action by the Government against the Aluminum Company of America, jand ® suit brought by the North Amerkan Company, large utility corporation, against the Securities and Exchange Commission to test the constitutionality of legislation governing utility Holding com: panies. | Bidfle reported to Congress 1 that sinaller quorum probably || Would poive the probieni. Repieesentative Reed attempted J to reniédy the situation last Octo ber with a bill requiring the Chief Justice to call upon retired: jus nena BSape yt it E WA sible in some instances has been for simple fraud, The Attorney General asked that Congress make provision for the voluntary expatriation, or with- drawal from American citizen- ship, of citizens in this country: whose true allegiance 1s to a for- elgn nation. A number of Amert-: can-born Japanese who are Amer} can citizens, he said, wish to abanden American citizenship and be interned as enemy aliens until! they can be sent ‘back to Japan. But present law does not | permit them to expatriate them- selves within the United States. Biddle also asked Congress to make a uniform definition of Bhe me 8 io Pa auey of Federai OIT1Cers to en arrested person before a a mitting officer, providing for ipignment within a reasonatle e. INGTON TIMES - HERALD ‘ K Mr, ¢ Mr. . Clegg - Ladd BE. A. Teme _ Coffey lavio Nic N . Rosen Tracy . Mohr Carson . Harbo . Hendon . Mumford