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PAGE SIX THE FRANKLIN PRESS and TtHE HIGHLANDS MACON IAN THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 193S CONSTITUTION IN SPOTLIGHT Promises To Be a Major Issue in Coming Campaign (Special To The Prew-Maconian) WASHINGTON, June 19. -The Constitution of the United States has not received so -much atten tion in Washington as it is now getting, since the historic occasion when the Hon. Tim Campbell, one of the early Tammany Congress men, propounded on the floor of the House the classic question: "What's the Constitution between friends?" From being a shadowy something in the background of the political picture, the Constitution has be come the theme of almost every conversation. It promises to be the livest political issue that the . voters of the country have had to wrangle about in forty years. Not since the free silver issue, upon which the Presidential -election of 1896 turned, has any fundamental question stir red ,up such wide-spread popular interest, as the question raised by the Supreme Court's decision in validating the NRA. Eye on "Grass Rooters" It is not stretching the facts to assert that a very considerable number of Senators and Repre sentatives who have been willing and even -eager to go along with the Administration are beginning to be seriously concerned over the outlook for next year's election. The promptness with which the. "Grass Roots" conference of Mid-! Western Republicans seized upon the Constitutional issue, and the apparent enthusiasm with which the action of that group has been received by the rank and file of , the Republican party, has set the! boys on Capitol Hill to wondering whether the Elephant was really as dead as they thought it was. What they are seemingly hunting for now is ways of carrying out the basic idea of a National Gov-! ernment centralized in and admin-, istered from Washington, without i u lining niuui again Ji inv uisiv gentlemen of the United States Supreme Court. There are good constitutional lawyers in both parties and in both houses of Congress. For various I reasons, chiefly concerned with their own political futures, most of these have kept their mouths shut. Now their colleagues are running to them for advice in the effort to find out what the Constitution does and does not permit them to do. Supreme Court Record Some of these constitutional law yers have been digging into the record and have put a pretty ef fectual stop to the -early outbursts against the power of the Supreme Court. The figures show that in the 146 years since the Constitution has been in effect the Supreme Court hafc passed upon 24,016 public laws passed by Congress, and has de cided that only 59 of them were unconstitutional. In 27 of these cases the decision of the Court was unanimous. There have been only 10 of the much criticized "five to four" decisions. Some of the constitutional sharks are getting a laugh by pointing out that 19 of the laws declared un constitutional by the Supreme Court were enacted between 1920 and 1929, a period in which the Re publican Party was in complete conrYol of Congress and the Ex ecutive. What is sauce for the goose, is pointed out, is equally good sauce for the gander. Matter of Constitution As this is being written there appears to be no abandonment of the idea for a general policy of tightening Federal control over re lations which have heretofore been left to the state to regulate. How much of this sort of thing can be done constitutionally is the ques tion. There is talk of promoting inter state agreements which could be ratified by Congress; there is also talk of strengthening and extend ing the powers of the Federal Trade Commission, which, has been functioning effectively for more than 20 years in settling trade dis putes and enforcing fair business practices. The question whether even the states have the power to regulate hours of labor and wages has coroo SPRINGFIELD, 111 Above is Harrison E. Spangler , of Cedar Rapids, la., who was general chairman of the mid-western states "grass roots' conference of Repub licans, called to deliberate on 1936 campaign issues. Ten prairie states were represented by 6500 delegates. to light with the re-examination of Supreme Court decisions. Several cases are cited in which the Court held that no state had such power, and one in which an act of Con gress establishing minimum wages for women and children in the Dis trict of Columbia to be unconsti tutional. There are very few constitutional lawyers in or out of Congress who believe that the Wagner Labor Disputes bill is constitutional, but under the pressure of the Labor Lobby it possibly will be passed. Cabinet Changes Rumored Some idea of confusion in Wash ington at this time is conveyed by the revival of gossip about changes in the administrative set-up. The latest rumor is that Postmaster General Farley is getting out in the fall and that . Dan Roper will succeed him in the Post Office; that Frank C. Walker will follow Roper as Secretary of Commerce. Rumors that Madam Secretary Perkins and Attorney General Cum mings are about to resign are un verified. There are at least three men after the job of Secretary of War, from which, gossip has it, Mr. Dern will shortly retire. Gen eral Hugh Johnson is credited with cabinet aspirations. So is Joseph C. Kennedy, chairman of the Se curities Exchange Commission and Frank Murphy, Governor-General of the Philippines. In the meantime, it can be set down as a fact that the Administra tion is having trouble finding good projects upon which to spend the President's four billion dollars Work Relief fund. It is rumored a personal feud is developing be tween Harold Ickes 'and Relief Ad ministrator Harry Hopkins. Smart observers are betting on Hopkins to win. Iff You Wear FALSE TEETH try New Alkaline Powder - amnciqiti hstM vmir ninths fin 11 7 and tight. It will prove a great source i 01 sausiacuon w yvu. iw cushion effect prevents pressure on the arums, rubber sore spots and sensitive mouth membrane. FASTEETH makes your mouth feel clean and fresh. 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