Evening star., 1935-05-16
Seven-Point Revised Set-Up
to Be Pushed in House to
ForestaII Senate.
CLARK LAUNCHES ATTACK
ON BLUE EAGLE KEEPER
Senator Says Richberg Talk Is
Dictatorial-Calls Him Would
Be "Mussolini."
BY the Associated Press.

EItSlutIlI ftOUocNtlL dIlu IIl6 N. u. n.
Board agreed today on a revised N r.
A. program calling for a two-year
extension. as contrasted with the
Senate vote to continue the recovery
organization only until next April /.
A seven-point revised N R. A. plan
which will be proposed by the admin
istration to the House was announced
at the White House by Donald Rich
berg, head of the N. r. A. Board.
after 1t had met with the President.
The plan provides:
!. Two-year extension.
2. A period of three to six months to
revise existing codes.
3. Jurisdiction to be limited to
businesses engaged in interstate COM
merce and those substantially affecting
interstate commerce.
Voluntary Codes Provided.
4. Provision for voluntary codes.
with adequate authority to impose
limited codes covering minimum
wages, maximum hours, prohibition OF
child labor and continuation Of Sec
ton IA, the collective bargaining
clause.
5. Definite authority and standards
to prevent unfair competition and
practices, especially those tending tc
monopoly and the destruction of small
enterprises.
6. Methods of code making and en-.
forcement to be further defined. with
enforcement primarily through in
functions and cease and desist orders
Z. Provision to protect individual
rights and small enterprises through
| opportunity for hearings, judicial re-
view and public control of all compul-
sorry processes.
Richberg said this program was
unanimously recommended by the
| National Industrial Recovery Board
and approved by the President.
To Be Pressed in House.
1t will be pressed in the House as
substitute for the extension voted
by the Senate.
Richberg indicated he had been
consulting with House leaders on this
| program and said it would be pre-
sented forthwith.
House committee hearings will be-
gin next Monday.
! Meanwhile, Senator Clark. Demo-
crat, of Missouri, aSsailed Richberg
as a would-be "Mussolini."
Angered by criticism of his measure
to extend the agency only 10 months
more. Clark said he would make a
speech in the Senate on Donald r.
Richberg and his ambition to be a
Mussolini In the United States"
| In a conference with Democratic
members of the House Ways and
Means Committee last night, Richberg
argued that the new N. r. A. legis-
lation should apply to businesses sub
stantielly affecting interstate COM
merce." The bill which the Senate
passed overwhelmingly would place
all intrastate business outside the
code structure.
The House members tentatively
| turned down Richberg's request on
this point, contending such provi-
sion as he suggested would amount to
the same thing as the present law.
But they gave support to his conten-
tion that N. r. A. should be continued
two years instead of 10 months.
Talk Held Brazen.
| Ripping into Richberg for his fight
against the Senate measure, Clark
held that a talk with the N r. A.
chieftain made to his staff recently
was the most brazen exhibition of
impudence on the part of a bureau
crat" he had ever seen. Richberg had
referred to the 10-month extension as
complete folly"
This controversy emphasized the
possibility of bitter dispute between
the House and Senate over N. r. A.
Speaker Byrns and other leaders
have predicted the House will abide by
President Roosevelt's request for a
| two-year extension. One Democratic
Representative, who would not permit
his name to be used, said today he
had been informed that poll of the
Senate showed IS of its members
would vote to extend the Blue Eagles
life considerably more than 10 months
rather than delay legislation and let
N. r. A. die June Is.
But Senator King. Democrat, of
Utah, critic of the Recovery Admin
istration, has threatened that the bill
will be delayed indefinitely If the
House tries to change it or sends 1t
back with a Richberg tag"
Hoover View Given Attention.
There was some speculation in the
Capital as to the possible effect on
Congress of the stand taken yesterday
by Former President Hoover. In an
interview at Palo Alto, Calf, he said
the "one right answer" to the N. r. A.
problem was complete abolition of the
agency. Some Democratic leaders in
terpreted his words as a move to build
up 1886 campaign issue. Repub-
licans who commented limited their
remarks to N. r. A. and said nothing
about the former President.
Anything Mr.. Hoover might have
to say was answered most effectively
in 1882" asserted Speaker Byrns.
A typical statement from the other
side Of the House was this from Rep
resentative Taber. Republican, of New
York:
IT have always believed that the
N. r. A. was destructive. that 1t re-
tarded recovery, and that 1t reduced
the earnings of the workers"
Chairman Doughton of the Ways
and Means Committee which handles
N. r. A. legislation in the House. said:
If there Is one man whose silence
in public affairs Is becoming it n Mr..
Hoover. He had his time and left the
country In a State of ruin"