Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-09-27

and official circles as blunder in Civ.
ing the Shipping Board executive ana
administrative functions along with its
semi-Jud1cial and regulatory Junction.
Congress is IN mood to listen, and L.
correct wrong. he is told.
Among those who have discussed the.
Shipping Board chaos with the Presi-
dent recently is Senator Walter +.
Edge, Republican of New Jersey. one
or the ranking members of the com
merce committee OF the Senate. He i
heartily in favor of abolishing the
board entirely. He frankly admitted at
the White House that he is going To
introduce resolution at the coming
session providing for this death knelI
TO the board by celebrating II and
transferring its functions, along with
the operation of the fleet, to some one
OF the Government departments.
preferably the Department of CON-
merce.
Representative Madden of Illinois
chairman of the appropriations com
mittee and one of the leaders OF the
House. who was one of the President :
callers during the latter part of the
week, said. after seeing the President, ,
that something drastic must be done. d,
and he intimated that he is inclined
to agree with Senator Edge.
Representative Begg of Ohio, Repuh- 9
l1can whip" of the House. Indicated
at the White House. that he expects
to see the present controversy between
the Shipping Board and the Elmer.
gency Fleet Corporation and the
boards defiance of President Coolidge. q
find its sequel when Congress next
meets. He was not prepa red to express
himself regarding the merit to Sena-
tor Edges proposal to scrap the board
but he believes any recommendation
made by President Coolidge. or any,
step approved by him, will find many
supporters in the House.
1ntfmates Of the President are salts; g
fed that in his annual message 20 be r.
submitted to Congress, when It as
sembles in December, he will include b.
strong recommendation in connec-
ton with the Shipping Board. Besides
this they expect him to take the mat
ter up personally with individual mem. x
bers OF the Senate and House in his
known determination to entirely sepa-
rate the Emergency Fleet Corporation
from the Shipping Board. @
Support in the Senate.
Senator Edges announced intention ,
to seek legislation at the coming SEES
sion to abolish entirely the Shipping
Board will gain considerable support
in the Senate right from the start. in,
the opinion of Senator Capper of Kan
sas. who is classed as one of the In
f1uential members of that body and ,
who is inclined at this time to favor
the New Jersey Senator's proposal
Senator Capper contends that some
thing must be done to relieve the Sit
uatlon, and. in his opinion. 1t might be =,
best to abolish the board entirely rath@s
er than reduce its functions to those off,
merely semi. judicia; nature. He is :,
positive that the board should have no
administrative powers, as is now the :
case. He is convinced that Congress
will this Winter do something to cor-,5
rect matters and he would not be sur.
prised to see something along the lines.
advocated by Senator Edge adopted.
1t is understood. also, that Senator
Curtis Of Kansas, Republican leader
of the Senate. is Of the same mind as
Senator Edge as to the adjustment OF
the board, and that he already has
intimated to President Coolidge that he .
will introduce legislation to bring this
about. ~