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MS (l to r) Senator Sherman Minton, (D-Indiana), Senator Hugo Black (D-Alabama), Senator Bob La Follette (D-Wisconsin) standing outside, Minton asks for a word from La Follette on proposal / CU La Follette says: "The pending compromise amendment is a constitutional means of putting an end to judicial usurpation and restoring the court to its proper function under the Constitution of administering justice " / SOT Black: "This bill will add new judges in the supreme court. The Constitution gives to the Congress the right to add new judges. I believe the people are entitled to new judges and should have them now." / MS (l to r) Senator Henrik Shipstead (Farmer Labor Party - Minnesota), Senator William Borah (R-Idaho), Senator Burton Wheeler (D-Montana) standing, Senator Pat McCarran (D-Nevada), Senator Gerald Nye (R-North Dakota), at long table; Wheeler asks Senator McCarran what he thinks / SOT Wheeler, seated: " ... McCarran, you made a great speech the other day. What do you think we should do now in reference to this matter and what are your objections to the bill?" / side shot SOT McCarran: "Justice cannot be rendered by an untrammeled and uncontrolled tribunal in this country. Then the people of this country will have lost confidence and when the people of this country lose confidence in their government, no one can say what the result may be." / MS Borah speaks / SOT Borah: "The time when the individual citizen, private citizen can find relief, nowhere in this country except in an impartial and uncontrolled judicial tribunal." / CU Nye says: "the only way to accomplish the reform desired and that's by Constitutional amendment. Any shortcut undertaken ought to be killed and killed completely." / Note: exact day not known