Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-04
Warren Not Interest
ed In Big Job
Continued from Rage One.)

rough-and-tumb1e battling in Congress-
to occupying an office where all he
has to do is say Eyes" or mo" to the
the President in the expenditure of
| government money. Another factor is
that Representative Warren, as 2 re-
suit of his natural ability, leadership
and seniority, is now in line to become
Democratic floor leader in the House
and eventually speaker also that he
| is chairman of ranking member Of
several powerful committees, with the
result that he now has a great deal
more influence in Washington as a.
member of Congress than he would
have as comptroller general. In fact.
there are indications that part of the
movement for his appointment to this
post has come from his own cOllea-
CUES in the House who would have
more opportunity to get into the lime
light and onto choice committees if
he should be removed from the House.
In other words, they would be de-
lighted to see him kicked upstairs by
appointment to job that would vir-
tually prevent his return to Congress
for long, long time.
of comptroller general carries with it
salary Of $4,000 year for a period
of Is years and that the comptroller
cannot be removed during the term of
his appointment except by Congress.
Those who have recently investigated
the matter however report that the
salary is only $4,000 a year-the same
as the salary of a Congressman-an
that while the term of the appoint
ment is for Is years, Congress has the
power to abolish both the job and the
salary at any time, since it is a sta
tutory job Accordingly, if Repub-
lican administration should come into
power and the Republicans have a
majority in both houses of Congress.
it would be possible for Congress to
pass a law abolishing the office of
comptroller general, in spite of the
15-year term, especially if the comp
troller happened to be Democrat.
Thus it is pointed out that Represen-
tative Warren would have nothing to
gain either as to salary or perman-.
ence by accepting this appointment,
if it should be offered to him. The be-
lief is that Representative Warren
trict in Congress just about as long
as he wants to.
Still another factor to be considered
is that Warren would lose the patron
age powers he now enjoys if he should
resign from Congress, also the addi-
tional allowances which go with COM
mittee chairmanships for clerk hire,
and so forth. Representative Warren
would also lose the very definite in
fluence which all now concede he has
in Congress and his position as one
of the trusted leaders of the present
administration, his friends point out.
They maintain he is not the type to
exchange his present position for an
office in which his principal duties
would be the scanning of columns of
figures and the welding of a rubber
stamp.
All of these things were being con-
sidered by Warren weeks before the
Association for the Advancement of
the Colored Race took any action to
oppose his appointment as comptrol-
Ter general, SO hiatt this opposition is
not a factor at all in his reported lack
of interest in the proposed appoint
ment, those who know the real facts
maintain. They believe that the OPP
position of the Negroes to Represen-
tative Warrens appointment would
have no effect if he really desired the
job. But they are convinced that War
rem is frankly not interested in ex-
changing a seat in Congress, where he
is as admitted by all factions to have
become a real leader and power, for
back seat in a musty office, even if
the salary were $4,000 year,