Evening star., 1933-02-11
Efforts to Give Roosevelt
DictatoriaI Control End
in Sharp Debate.
GARNER PLEA AROUSES
FOES IN BOTH PARTIES
Conference Between Senate and
House Expected to Bring Agree
ment for Economy Program.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Efforts were launched in Congress
today to work out compromise on the
extent Of power to be given President
elect Roosevelt to reorganize the Gov
ernment and cut millions of the annual
bill for upkeep.
Speaker Gamers proposal to "go the
limit" in giving Mr. Roosevelt reorgani-
zation powers ran into spirited opposi-
ton yesterday from both Republicans
and Democrats in the House. Repub-
ican disapproval also was evident in
the Senate, and there were intimations
that President Hoover is opposed to
granting authority that would give the
new Chief Executive free hand even
with appropriations.
The Treasury-Post Office appropria-
ton bill, to which the authority is to
be attached, is ready for conference be-
tween the Senate and House, and there
a compromise probably will be reached.
The bill already contains broad re-
organization powers which, however, are
mild compared to those sought by
Garner and other House leaders
Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South
Carolina, a close associate of MIR. Roose-
welt and sponsor of the original author
ity, indicated the new proposal would
be based on the Huddleston resolution,
which provides that if the President
finds probable revenues on July ! will
not meet expenditures, he may slash
all expenditures by 10 per cent. He
said the proposition would have to be
worked out In conference.
Forced to Conference.
Bitter partisan debate in which sew
eral Democrats joined Republicans in
opposing the Garner proposal threw its
advocates back momentarily In the
leaders forced the Treasury-PoSt ONCE
supply bill to conference.
When the House convened, Repre-
sentative Arnold. Democrat, of Illinois,
sought to get unanimous consent to
send the appropriation measure to con-
ference, but 1t was only after an hour
Of heated debate that the House voted,
sat to I, to do so. Ar
Taking the floor, Representative
Smell, the minority leader, said "the
present President has never suggested
eudt NC Uc given ttlc IlBut 10 duSO-
lutely abolish definite functions of the
Government that have been established
by law, certainly not without q review
by Congress"
"It seems to me that 1t Is one of
two things" Smell added. Either the
Democrats in the House take the posi-
ton OF opposing giving any such
authority to Republican President,
for absolutely political reasons, a purely
partisan position, or else from the ex-
perience Of the Democratic party in
running the House during the last two
years, the leaders have made up their
minds that the party is absolutely in
efficient to meet the responsibility of
majority In the House Of Representa-
tives"
Bunk" shouted Representative Blan-
ton, Democrat, Of Texas. "That state
ment is so ridiculous that nobody is
paving any attention to it,
Smell said that he remembered that
Representative Cochran Of Missouri,
Democratic chairman of the House
Committee, had opposed
"abrogating the rights of Congress-"
Leaping to his feet, the MisSourian
displayed the dissension In the Demo-
cratic ranks by shouting:
am not willing to make the Con-
gress of the United States appear like
a lot Of towards, and I shall not vote
for any proposition such as Is proposed
IN the newspapers today. If we do
pass such thing, we are nothing but
q lot Of towards, refusing to do our
Constitutional duty" He added he did
not believe the conferees "are going to
be stampeded by any such suggestion"
Rankin Serves Notice.
Although approving the Senate pro-
visions, Representative Rankin of Mis- |
sissippi, Democratic candidate for the
Speakership IN the next House, said "I
serve notice now on whomever are
appointed conferees, that do not want |
them to take the statement In yester- |
days papers as instructions coming |
from this (Democratic) side of the |
House.
I'VE are not willing to abdicate our
functions as legislators, nor are we will
ng to- pile all this responsibility in the |
ap Of the incoming President of the
United States"
The veteran dean of the Democrats,
representative Pou Of North Carolina,
who has been in the House SO years,
;ook the floor and said:
There are few things we do know,
md one Of them Is that Government |
have steadily mounted and
hat every effort to reduce Government |
expenses has so far been failure.
Here We have simple proposal to
end a nine hundred and forty-odd
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