Evening star., 1933-08-31
CUMMINGS SCOUTS
/ FEDERAL POLICING
Bar Convention Told Admin
istration Has No Program
for Change.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. August 81
Homer S. Cummings, Attorney Gen.
eral of the United States, today en-
phatically stated the administration
has no program to compel the federal
ization of all police forces in the
country.
What We are trying to do is to CO.
ordinate the Federal, State and local
efforts so that there will be more
efficiency in the job of capturing and
prosecuting the kidnaper and racketeer,'
the Attorney General told newspaper
men upon his arrival to address the
American Bar Association tonight
Cummings would not comment on
speech delivered before the association
Yesterday by Pat Malloy, Assistant At
torney General, in which Malloy out
lined a plan for placing State and
county police officials under Federal
commissions and direction.
Opinisn Is Withheld.
Anything Malloy said was his own
speech" Cummings said. Il can't of1e1
an opinion about it until read it
There have been literally thou
sands of plans presented to u.s." Cum
mings continued, "and have appointed
Joseph B. keenan,, head of the de-
partment investigating racketeerlng. to
study them. He is more familiar with
the program than any one else, but
we are not laying down any definite
program at this time"
10
citation yesterday precipitated a con-
troversy over the constitutionality of
the measures he presented as a plan
of his own, but which he said was IN
dorSed by the Attorney General.
keenan, accompanied the Attorney
General to Grand Rapids today, but he
declined to make statement. Cum
mings said that legislation will be sub
mitted to the next Congress with regard
to the administrators program Tor
fighting crime, but he emphasized that
no legislation is contemplated to COM
pei any sort of federalized crime detec-
ton. He said that the Federal Gov
eminent does not seek the cooperation
of State county and local ponce
bodies, but that such cooperation will
be purely voluntary"
No Predictions to Make.
''I have no predictions to make about
what the legislation will be except that
there probably will be laws to restrict
the sale of firearms and deadly Wea-
pons," Cummings said.
Meanwhile, in the convention session
Francis j. Sullivan. New York attorney
told the Bar Association that the Su-
preme Court may yet rule the eight
eenth amendment unconstitutional on
the ground it was a mere usurpatlon
and that repeal is unnecessary
Addressing the convention on Amer
lean Citizenship" Sullivan said the
amendment was inserted in the Constr
tuition without the full consent OF those
governed.
Bankruptcy Aid Hit.
The Committee on Commercial Law
and Bankruptcy reported that 1t be-
lieved two points of the three-polnt
bankruptcy relief program enacted by
Congress at its last session are either
valueless or nearly so.
1T is doubtful whether either OF the
first two of these measures has made
or will make. any appreciate contrlDu-
tion to the program of debt reduction
for which they were designed the
committee said.
The first of these two points, revision
of the laws governing individuals In
bankruptcy. was given a cold reception
by the committee on the ground that it
is ambiguous obscure and appears to
grant unsecured creditors the right tc
decide by majority the fate of secured
creditors.
OF the second point, the so-called
agricultural compositions and eXten-
sions'' act, the committee said it believed
it will prove even more disappointing
to farmers" An advancing grain
market, the report said, appears to hold
out more promise of help to agriculture
The act permitting reorganization ol
railroads engaged in interstate COM