Evening star., 1933-12-05
ALCOHOL BUREAU
SHAKE-UP AVOIDED
Consolidation to Be Effected
Without Change in Status
of Personnel

the personnel disturbances necessitated
by the automatic separation" provision
of the presidential reorganization order
of June 10, the consolidation Of the
Bureau of industrial Alcohol into the
Bureau of Internal Revenue will be
made effective tomorrow under a law
OF nearly seven years standine-thss
creating the Bureau OF Prohibition.
The immediate result will be that
hundreds of workers in the two bureaus
who would have been cut from the rolls
and then restored to duty imediately,
but on a temporary-or, in the case OF
officials. "acting"-capacity. will come
under the new set-up without any
change in employment status.
For those who would have been re-
tanned, the step means preservation OF
leave privileges For others who might
have been dropped permanently, it is
Job protection.
Order Still in Effect
The executive order under which this
consolidation originally was MAPPED Is
still in effect, but it is felt that 1t now
will be waived in vew Of the fact tnat
the arrangement which it was intended
to effect is being carried out In snoth-
er direction, although for the present at
least the designation OF the Bureau OF
Internal Revenue. which was to become
"Division of Internal Revenue. Is un-
changed.
The order consolidating the two ou-
reaus. and with them such permit func-
tions as were exercised by the Depart
ment of Justice through the old Pro-
hibton Bureau, was to have gone INTO
effect August 10. Late In July, now
ever. President Roosevelt amended his
original order to permit the consollda-
tion any time before December 81. THIS
was necessary, it was said, because O.
the large number of workers anecteo,
and further because it was desired 70
see what steps might be necessary BE-
cause of the then pending repeal legis-
lation With the abolition of the Pro.
hibition Bureau and dissemination OF
its functions throughout the Depart
ment Of Justice. its limited permit au-
thority. exercised jointly with the
Treasury through the Bureau Of In
dustrial Alcohol, was allowed to rest
entirely in the latter where, general
permissive authority lay.
With the coming OF repeal then. 1t
was decided to put through the conso1-
dsation, which, in effect, restores pre-
prohibition status, when liquor control
reposed in the Bureau of Internal Reve-
nue..
Saves Collectors.
Treasury officials then, it was ex-
planned, decided that existing law could
be made applicable, thus averting the
trouble that has bobbed up In other
consultations. where the order has
forced separation of all workers in
volved
In the present instance, 1t was
pointed out. under decision by Con-
troller General McCarl. not only would
hundreds of rank and file employees
been affected. but also large numbers
OF presidential empl0yes-c0llect0rS Tor
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confirmed by the senate. They would
even have to execute new lndemnny
bonds. it was pointed out
Such procedure, II vas explained,
would of necessity brought considerable
confusion and delay, and at this time,
with the change in the prohibition law
to be dealt with. such situation had
to be avoided
The McCarl ruling was sought just
before the original date set for consoli-
dation. and in 1t he held. among other
things. that any persons in these estae-
lishments with husband or wife also In
the service, would not be eligible for
Unemployment until every one else IN
the shift had been cared for.
The lew under which the change Is
being made was enacted March 8. 1927.
1t set up the Bureau of Prohibition as
successor to the unit which up to then
had handled the dry law and conferred
broad administrative Jurisdiction upon
the Secretary of the Treasury. Among
these is the right to vest the COM
missioner of internal revenue with such
powers which in the opinion Of the
Secretary Of the Treasury may be neceS-
sary in connection with internal reve-
nue. taxes
In previous reorganizations it has
been customary to transfer the employees
who were retained on temporary basis
pending final adjustment of their status.
This deprived them of all sick and
annual leave.
The new consolidation Is the last OF
those originally contemplated under the
Presidents order 10 get under way. One
move has been shelved however, . pro-
posed rs per cent cut in expenditures
for vocational education and rehabili-
tation, endowment and maintenance Of
colleges for agriculture and the me-
chanic arts, agricultural experiment
stations and agricultural extension
work having been postponed until 80
days after Congress convenes. This was
done because Of the vigorous fight on
the measures In the closing days Of the