Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-20
HOOVER WILL ASK
CONGRESS TOOK.
MITIGATION PLAN
President viii Seek Early Ap-
provaI of Reorganizing
Federal Agencies.
VETERANS ACTIVITIES
WOULD BE CENTRALIZED
Saving of Millions and Simplifca-
tion of Work Is Expected to
Be Accomplished.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Hoover is ready to translate
into action 10 years talk about reorgan-
izing the Federal Government.
As a first step he has approved plan
to consolidate all of the agencies dealing
with war veterans and their dependents
and will ask the sanction of Congress
for it at the opening of the regular ses-
sion two weeks hence.
Chief among these agencies are the
Veterans Bureau, now functioning as
an Independent establishment; the Pen
sion Office, administered by the Interior
Department; the National Home Tor
Disabled Volunteers, another separate
establishment, and the disqualification
division of the Public Health Service.
The consolidation is expected TO
bring about a saving OF Several MI,
lions of dollars in administration ano
disqualification costs alone ana 70
simplify the work of dealing with the
veterans and their dependents.
Single Agency Proposed.
There would be created new single
agency under a director reporting oi-
rectly to the President through MS ad-
rninistrative assistant. 1t would hanole
more than three-quarterS OF pllIlon
dollars annually, embracing the $780,
moo 600 spent by the Veterans Bureau,
some $3.50 100000 by the Pension ounce
and around $20,000,000 by the otner
divisions. .s,4
n comprehensive survey now Is being
made for consolidating within the
Justice Department most OF the agencles
dealing with prohibition enforcement
and a recommendation along thaI nne
also will be made to Congress In the
Presidents message.
This would bring about transfer
of the Prohibition Bureau from tne
Treasury to the Justice Department ana
the concentration in that department
of other enforcement work. The Wnole
work after the transfer would be under
the single direction of G. Aaron Young
Quist, Assistant Attorney General.
Hope to Avoid Duplication.
Consolidation of other agencies deaf
ing with the same or kindred supJecle
will be taken up soon with view W
recommendations to Congress 1or lne
necessary legislation. The purpose =
to avoid duplication In enorG anu WoaS'
TO simplify dL0 AOWSA 49, -.
ministration and to save time Ior Lnose
who have business with the Government
The first move looking to reorganlZa-
tion of the Government was mace oy
President Harding with the appointment
of a commission of Congress with water
r. Brown, now Postmaster General, as
chairman and the personal spokesman
for the President. An exhaustive stuoy
was made and a tentative plan covering
the whole Government was 1ormulaCeo.
Covering as it did every agency OF the
Government, the plan presented Sucn a
maze of subjects for controversy that u
scarcely reached the stages OF even
preliminary congressional consideration
There was a general agreement tnat
there should be reorganization, but the
whole pattern proved too big target 70
GET bv even a small group of the sharp
shooters. o.
president Hoover stressed such reor-
ranization during his campaign, pu'
even then had decided that the feasible
Toethod was to accomplish the task step
bv step rather than attempt 1t at
single lump. Prohibition enforcement
and the veterans care furnished logical
starting points.
the second, naming Secretary Wilbur
walter Newton, his administrative as
sistant: Director Hines OF the veterans
Bureau, and Lieut.. Col. Camppel
Hodges, military aide to the PRESIDENT,
to make the study. They recently com.
pIeted a report and the President nae
approved their recommendations.