Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-21
Two Features Emphasized
I'm Power Board Discussion

Grams whom they dumped into the outer
rkness-then-why did they dump
them?" ~ se
us the policy Of the Federal Power
Commission to be-" asks the Wheeling
Intelligencer, Ito cruelty faithful ape
pointees who call attention to attempts
to foist gross frauds upon the public,
and to protect employees who lend them
selves silently, If not joyfully, to such
impositions?" The Intelligencer asserts
that three members Of the commits
sion have apparently stamped them
selves as utterly unit TO occupy high
Judicial positions" The Columbus Ohio
State Journal finds, as TO the commits
sioners under IRE, 70 ponderable doubt
Is to their fitness Tor the positions"
IS 4 =
UNFOLDING Senator Walsh's opposition
10 the appointees. the MorgantoWu
Dominion News recalls his action IN
the oil cases, and concludes, The peO-
pie have not yet forgotten that he was
abused and Vilif1ed, but that his diBcGEns
ment and Judgment were indicated 8AI
beyond even his own anticipaSaon91
The Portland Oregon Journal gHggGB
that ''Dr. George Otis Smith meralZ
oVerplayed his hand" and may have
been simply too jealous to carry 0aSt IN
wishes Of those in the background
upon this matter" advises tia H.
timore Sun, the Hoover adminigEat1aH
has dealt very shabbily with b not nnns
ligible section Of public opinion. Tt To~
mains to be seen whether the adrntuln~
tration has not dealt even more shah
billy with ITSELF" As to the latest de-
Velopment, the sun says: ''The final
action Of the Federal Power Commission
in persiSting In splitting the difference
between the two Of It's employees most
Jealous In the public interest by retain-
ing one and barring the other does not
temper the common Judgment that ths
act was capricious, rash, nl-tempered.
unjust and calculated to Justify the
country In the worst view Of the new
commissions intentions. Without re-
gard to the defects In law and logic Of
the Senate's effort to undo this grave
blunder by recalling the nominations Of
the three commissioners responsible, It
must be said that the first official act
Of the body creates the most serious
doubts Of their fitness and Of their de-
sire to sustain the public side in the
inevitable controversy over electric
power. The decision to throw a sop to
the hounds by taking back the account
ant, q valuable man, but less agrees
Stve than Solicitor Russell, merely
ever"
Charges that the incident represents
an attempt to create political capital
on the part Of Mr.. Hoover's opponents
are made by the Charleston Is. CT
Evening Post, the Manchester Union,
the Goshen Daily News-T1mes, the
Springfield (MaSS.) Union, the South
Bend Tribune and the Providence Bull
letin. That is q revival Of the ancient
controversy between Senate and Execu-
tive Is the belief of the New York
Herald Tribune, the Pittsburgh Post
Ga0ette, the Yakima Daily Republic,
the Green Bay Press-G Gazette and the
Indianapolis Star.
Regardless Of whether Mr.. Hoover's
selections are all that could be desired"
AYERS the Newark Evening News, che "a
totally right in resisting the Senate's
attempt to encroach upon his powers"
Contention that the remedy, II needed,
Is impeachment, and that II rests with
the House Of Representatives, Is made
by the Charlotte News, the Fort Worth
Record Telegram and the Fort Wayne
News-Senttnel.