The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-30
PERvERTING CONSTITUTIONAL
GOVERNMENT

GOVERNMENT
NRA has been knocked out but there re-
main 81 alphabetically designated bureaus
set up by the administration in defiance oil
the Constitution of the United States, every
one of them doing business illegally, Just
as NRA has been doing.
These bureaus were created by the
blanket authority granted the President by
Congress Congress, of course, had no cor
stitutional right or authority to vest this
power in the executive department of the
government; and the authority which the
President lodged in these bureaus of his
own creation was transfer of power
which he did not legally possess and in
doing so he was simply giving his personal
authorization to bureau heads or commits
SionS to proceed to take action III violation
of the federal Constitution.
The foregoing is a plain statement. but
it is plain statement of facts: and the
facts are so obvious that It IS not necessary
for one to be a constitutional lawyer IN
order to appreheRd them.
This newspaper considers that the time
has come for plain. statements, based on
plain and straight thinking and devotioa
to the rights of the American people, to
American freedom and the American sys-
tenn of government.
As stated these alphabetically designat-
ed bureaus were created by the President
after he had been given blanket permission
by Congress to set them up, The creation
of these bureaus is thus explained by Fhe
Muncie, Ind, Star:
The President, acting under the incorporation
laws of Delaware was authorized to appoint oy
executive order three to meet before a notary
and one or two witnesses and form CORPORA
ton with whatever Of charter powers they mlgne
want They would have share OF stock each
in the corporation, which would De financed out
of federal funds to carry on the tasks for which
it was launched.
The incorporation idea was adopted IN order
to net away from the entangIements and respon-
5ibiIIties imposed by ordinary governmental agen-
eies regular governments bureau has TO con-
duct it's affairs according TO the laws laid down
Inv Congress and has to limit it's spending to the
sum appropriated TO it by Congress. The alpha
hetical units, on the other hand are corpora
tionss although financed by federal funds The
officers are in charge and can do anything they
see fit They are not hampered by budgetary re-
strictiuns or any other limitations
Under the law those in charge of the eighty
three bureaus authorized to make rules that
shall have the force of law. Some statissieians
say that than ten thousand rules have been
promulgated, although Congress had nothing to
do with their making. That phase of the alpha
betical setup has been widely criticized in
violation of the constitutional prerogstiye Of
Congress to make laws.
The quoted paragraphs make this mat
ter plain. 1t is clear, under the NRA aeei
sion of the Supreme Court, that Congress
had no constitutional authority 10 gran
blanket powers to the President, that h
had no constitutional authority to Great
these corporations, and that the corpora
tons have violated the Constitution b
usurping the legislative powers vested e>
eIusiveIy in Congress, in that they hay
promulgated rules and regulations haviA
the force of law. This is law making b
citizens or private corporations, where's
the only constitutional law making nation
al body is the Congress.
1t would be interesting and fllumlpatll
to have the lawyers and courts and II
people of the country begin at orce
study the proposition that all OF the &C
andfransaetioRs of the entire 50 burea
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