Evening star., 1933-02-19
HOUSE GETS PLAN
ONREORGAN|zAT|0N
Accord of Conferees on Presi-
Dental Powers Comes Up
Tuesday.
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Congress would then be required to pre-
vent the reorganization.
Representative Byrns, Democrat OF
Tennessee chairman of the House con-
ferees, will file the partial conference
report in the House Monday and hopes
to have it taken up Tuesday. M
Byrns is. meeting today with the other
House conferees to draft the report.
Hope for Approval.
The House conferees expressed conf
dence last night that the revised re-
provision will be approved
in the House as tentatively agreed upon
by the conferees. The changes in this
section made In conference do not alter
the essential features of the plan as
passed by the Senate.
Chairman ByrnS and othe- conferees
declined to express an opinion as to
what will be done by the House on the
Bratton amendment for S per cent
slash in the total of each appropria-
ton bill He said that If any member
desires to have separate vote on this
provision he will do nothing to OBJ
struct the vote.
The final fate of this amendment,
which would mean total cut of more
than $4,000, 900 for the Government as
a whole, on top of specific reductions
made by Congress in each appropriation
bill as it passes, is one of the chief ele-
ments of interest in the entire economy
program.
Costigan Provision.
AS it stands this per cent saving
amendment has attached to it the
Costigan provision that no pay cuts or
t&o
of accomplishing the saving. officials
throughout the Government service
have informed the conferees that this
saving could not be made without going
into expenditures for personnel and
that If furloughs cannot be resorted to
thousands of employees would have to
be dismissed
The House conferees, it Is said, held
out firmly against the Bratton amend
ment in the executive meetings of the
conferees throughout the past week.
Amendments in Disagreement.
other Senate amendments still in
when the conferees ad-
journed temporarily yesterday were: To
allow automatic promotions to be re-
'umed in the Army, Navy, among certain
groups of postal workers and for Dis
trict policemen and firemen; to abolish
The Bureau Of Efficiency; to apply the
pay cut Of the present economy law to
enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy,
Marine Corps and Coast Guard, and the
Mcclellan amendment to confer new
powers on the controller general to
review Federal tax refunds.
The conferees agreed yesterday to
restore to the Post Office section of the
bill the SIG 900, 900 for operation of the
air mail service. which had been
stricken out by the Senate. It was re-
ported that the Senate conferees
yielded on this item by 6-to-5 vote,
which may mean further discussion
when the conference report Is brought
into the Senate Z
In the Treasury section of the
the Senate conferees also
yielded for the restoration Of 81 ,000,0O
the Senate cut from the funds of the
Internal Revenue Bureau, and also put
back the S2,400,0 900 which had been cut
from the Customs Bureau allotment.
House Procedure.
Although the general economy sec
tion covers a multitude Of different
questions, it was drafted by the Senate
as one amendment to the Treasury
Post Office bill. Under the House rules
this entire economy section must be
taken back to the House by its con-
ferees because it embodies new legis-
lation.
The procedure on Tuesday will be for
the House to consider a motion to con-
cur in those portions of the amend
ment to which the conferees have
agreed At that time, however, any
member OF the House would have an
opportunity to offer an amendment to
the motion. Whether any effort will
be made to modify or broaden the re-
organization section was not apparent
last night.
After the House has acted on this
partial conference report it will 60 to
the Senate and following that confer
enceS would be resumed on any uueS-
tions still remaining in disagreement
Ordinarily this report would have gone
to the Senate first, but the Senate con-
ferees waived this procedure In order to
let the House conferees submit the con-
troversial Senate economy provisions to
the House for an expression Of opinion.
While the conferees have come to-
gether on the subject Of reorganiza-
ton, this question will continue to hang
in the balance until the fate of the bill
as whole Is settled.
Preamble to Reorganization.
The preamble to the reorganization
section sets forth that these broad
powers are being conferred on the
Executive because of an imperative need
to reduce governmental expenditures.
One OF the changes made in conference
was to strike from this preamble ref
erence to a period of emergency, on
the ground this might complicate legal
Of the proposed author
ity.
The plan as agreed to in conference
would direct the President to investi-
gate all Executive and administrative
agencies Of the Government to deter
mine what changes are necessary to:
Group, coordinate and consolidate
Executive and administrative agencies
as nearly as may be according to major
purpose; to reduce the number of such
agencies by consolidating those having
similar functions under a single head,
and by abolishing such agencies and
functions thereof as may not be neces-
sary for the efficient conduct of the
Government; to eliminate overlapping
and duplication Of effort, and to segre-
gate regulatory agencies and functions
from those OF an administrative and
IASNo0AfS NAlhl dCtCI. lle SeCLlOIl GULL
tairs clause prohibiting the abolition
or transfer Of an entire executive de-
partment, or all the functions thereof.
The powers conferred on the President
by this plan would expire two years
after enactment of the bill
The pending reorganization plan
would give the incoming President
much broader authority than was al
lowed by Congress in the present econ
omy law passed year ago Under the
present law one branch of Congress
has the power to stop consolidation Or
ders by passing a simple resolution not
requiring action of the other branch
or the signature of the President
Continues for Year.
The economy section of the Treas
ury-Post Office bill continues for an
other year the present 8h per cent