Evening star., 1935-10-11
BUSINESS STARTS
POLL ON NEW DEAL
1850 Member Units of U. S.
Chamber Asked to Vote
on "Trends."
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A Nationwide poll of business men
was in progress today to get their
opinion of New Deal trends" as seen
through the eyes of committee OF
the Chamber of Commerce Of the
United States.
Ballots were in the mail on which
Che chambers $500 member organi-
cations were asked to give "yes" or
mo" answers to these four general
questions:
Should there be extension Of Fed
eral Jurisdiction into matters Of State
and local concern?
Should the Federal Government at
the present time exercise Federal
spending power without relation to
revenue?
Should there be Government COM
petition with private enterprise for
regulatory or other purposes?
Should all grants of authority by
Congress to the executive department
of the Federal Government be within
clearly-defined limits?
Based on O'Leary Report.
The QUESTIONABLE was based on
report prepared by John w. OLeary
of Chicago, chairman of a 1egisla-
tive committee which sharply criti-
cized New Deal legislation.
Directors of the chamber neither
approved nor disapproved the report
when it was presented at a recent
meeting. In statement accompany
ing the ballots mailed out yesterday,
the directors said. the purpose of the
referendum was "to have considera-
tion of all the (administration's) leg
islation, rather than concentration
upon particular measures, respecting
many Of which the chamber had been
given specific positions"
In this way the chambers men,
bership will be given a chance to 60
on record for or against governmental
theories which the OLeary report
contends are embodied generally in
New Deal measures enacted at the
last session Of Congress.
The balloting will close November
IS. Accompanying the ballots were
the OLeary report printed in full and
also series of arguments called Tar
guments in the negative"
Asks Thoughtful Attention"
The OLeary report, after listing
new laws and discussing Federal ex-
penditures, asked the most thought
full attention" for trends listed as
follows:
Exercise Of the spending power
without regard for revenues, for pur-
poses within the powers Of neither
Federal nor State governments, and
on scale that brings to every busi-
ness and to every individual the
dangers flowing from an unbalanced
budget;
Extension of competition by Gov
ernment enterprise into the fields of
private endeavor for the purpose Of
regulating private enterprise or other
wise;
Regulation by the Federal Gov
ernment Of production, industrial and
agricultural, and local marketing and
retailing-with the Federal Govern
ment impinging upon the individual
in. his everyday affairs in making
a nving-in planting crops, in work.
ing at trade for himself or in work.
ing as an employe Of another;
Delegation of powers to the exec
utive department of the Federal Gov
ernment and constantly enlarging ad-
ministrative agencies and bureaucracy
for detailed application of measures,
with all decisions for the whole corn-
try at central point and conse-
quent delays and expense for citizens
even as to matters in themselves Of
small importance"
The arguments In the negative"
asserted that much of the legislation
reviewed "had its origin In conditions
Of emergency or was enacted against
a background Of an emergency" The
chambers legal staff then devoted
nine pages to quotations from a study
OF the depression by the economic
staff of the League CT Nations.
They also declared there Is moth
ing new" in Federal .encroachment
on matters widely considered as
belonging to the jurisdiction of the
States" The legal staff also stated
that arguments have been advanced
that modern conditions required Fed
eral regulation of industrial produc-
ton, and quoted from Supreme Court
opinions on these questions.