Evening star., 1934-06-10
Agricultural Committee to
Conduct Hearing on Under
secretary Appointment.
BYRD JOINS SMITH
IN VOICING OPPOSITION
Virginian Believes He Has Not
Proper Conception of U. S.
Principles.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

President Roosevelt's brain trust
in the person of Rexford G. Tug
we'll. Assistant Secretary of Agricul-
ture-iS to be investigated by con-
gressional committee at last
The Senate Committee on Agricul-
ture will have Mr.. Tugwell before it
tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. in
connection with his nomination for
Undersecretary Of Agriculture, a
brand-new job created at this session
of Congress- While Senator Smith of
South Carolina, chairman of the COM
mittee, has objected to the appoint
ment of Mr.. Tugwell to this office be-
cause he is professor and not dirt
farmer. Senator Harry Flood Byrd of
Virginia is opposing the Tugwell NOM
inatior for very different reason.
The Virginia Senator said during the
Senate debate that he opposed Tug
well and would vote against him be
cause of my belief that he has not the
proper conceptions of the principles of
our Government"
Refused to Call Tugwell.
Mr. Tugwells conceptions of the
principles of Government were dis
cussed at some length during the now
famous DR.. William A. Writ hearing
by a special committee of the House
But the Democratic members of that
committee fatty declined to call Mr..
Tugwell or any other member of the
brain trust before it for inquiry into
their views. The Writ charges. al
leging that members of the brain
trust" in Washington were seeking
to undermine the Government and
that he had been told that the brain
trusters" considered President Roose-
velt merely the "KerenSky Of this
revolution" we're dismissed by the
majority of the committee after the
persons whom Dr. Writ said had
given him such information denied
fatty that they had ever said any,
thing of the kind to the Gary, Ind,
educator.
Senator Byrd took another fling at
Mr.. Tugwen in the Senate yester-
day. when he put into the record a
letter he had received from Tugwell
about published interview with the
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
The interview was in connection with
amendments proposed by the Depart
ment of Agriculture to the agricul-
tural adjustment act-the three As,
so called. In this interview Mr.. Tug
well was reported to have said these
amendments will permit us to con-
tinue what we already have been do
ing If We should get setback In
court we should have to stop doing
certain things under present circurl-
stances"
Holds Interview Confirmed.
DR.. Tugwell's reply to Senator
Byrd's letter, received yesterday, did
not placate the Virginian at all. He
placed the TugweH letter in the
Congressional Record, which he in
sisted confirmed the original inter-
view, citing particularly one sentence
of the letter which read: 1T was also
in that connection that I stated that
certain of the amendments simply
permitted us to do what We are
already doing" Senator Byrd in
sisted that Tugwell had already
exceeded the authority given him by
law" and had admitted it. In con-
clusion the Senator said:
Il shall never join in vote of
confidence by confirming the nom
ination of any official of this Gov
ernment who has so little regard for
the Constitution of the United States
as to usurp authority which belongs
to Congress and to substitute himself
for the Congress-
Since Senator Byrd several weeks
ago delivered a broadside against the
amendments to the A. A. A. proposed
by the Department of Agriculture, he
has received thousands of letters and
kilograms supporting his stand in
opposition. it was said last night. A
few criticisms of Senator Byrd's
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