Evening star., 1935-01-08
New Deal Not Discouraged
by Ruling Against Oil
Control.
AGRICULTURAL PROGRAM
BELIEVED ENDANGERED
New Legislation Is Being Dis
cussed-Fair Competition Not
Declared Questioned.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The New Deal, deprived of a por-
ton of N. r. A. which the Supreme
Court tossed out of the window as un-
constitutional, still strove today to
keep the Federal lid on "hot OIL"
At the same time the belief was ex-
pressed in one quarter on Capitol Hill
that the high tribunals act in scrap
ping an oil control provision in the
national industrial recovery act
spelled the doom Of some other New
Deal legislation.
Senator Adams. Democrat, of Colo
RADIO said some of the laws behind the
Governments agricultural program
contained provisions similar to the oil
control features which the Supreme
Court killed on the ground Congress
has delegated too much law-making
power to the President.
I'VE have gone the whole way in
these delegations, said Adams. 1T
can hardly be expected that the courts
will uphold all the delegations Con-
gress attempted. 1t inevitably will
affect some of the agricultural agen-
CieS."
Provision Scrapped.
The section Scrapped by an 8-to-1
decision was &C, under which the
Government has been undertaking to
bar from interstate commerce oil pro-
:, Af To
State agencies. This petroleum Is
known as hot OIL"
Secretary Ickes. oil administrator,
noted that the decision did not rule
on the oil CODE" embodied in other
parts of N. R. A.
We still have that code and will
continue to operate" he declared.
We will attempt to regulate hot oil
with every resource We have"
New Law to Be Sought.
At his press conference today Ickes
said he will seek new legislation to
regulate production and shipment OF
illegally produced oil. He added he
would confer Immediately with Chair
man Cole of the House Commerce
Subcommittee investigating the oil
industry. but would not draft q bill
pending action by that group.
II don't think that the country will
ever be in the position to control the
oil situation without further legisla-
ton" Ickes said. ut is absolutely
inevitable that there will be an ap-
proach to the conditions before the Oil
Administration took hold.
There will not only be an incentive
but an opportunity for one man to
steal the oil of another man. Under
the weight of increased production
prices can't hold.
I'm not predicting when it will
happen: I'm saying it will happen"
He expressed belief the Cole Com
mittee. which recently reported against
Federal regulation at this time, would
submit bill.
Pointing out that only one section
of the recovery act was declared ille-
gal. Ickes said the law might have
been more carefully and skillfully
drawn"
He added the Petroleum Admins
trative Board would discuss imme-
diately with the Justice Department
the question of what could be done.
Hope Seen in Congress.
"While we intend to do the best We
can with the means available to Us"
he said, "the basic remedy rests with
Congress. The decision of the court,
in my opinion, emphasizes the neces-
sity for specific and adequate legisla-
ton to effectuate the rational conser-
vation program designed to prevent
the waste of oil and gas resources and
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