Evening star., 1937-08-23
MAP FIGHT
ON RE0RCAN|z|NC
Taber To Demand Adequate
Hearings-AssaiIs Each
of Four Measures.
BY WILL P. KENNEDY.

Opposition to the Presidents re-
organization program Is being organ
lied for the next session Of Congress.
Warning that the administration
directed reorganization bill ito abolish
the controller general As an ind.
pendent auditing agent" would de
stroy the specific appropriating power
M Congress" is given by Representa-
tive John Taber, Republican, OF New
York, ranking minority member on
the Appropriations and on the Re-
organization Committee. He admon-
ashes each member OF Congress that
in voting for this bill he would be
~abdicating in favor Of the Dictator
ship which now prevails in Washing
ton, every vestige Of power or influence
that he has left after four years of
usurpation.'
After specifically denouncing each of
the four reorganization bills reported
IN the House to carry out the Presi-
dents program. two OF which have
been passed and are now awaiting ac-
ton In the Senate, Mr.. Taber said
that when Congress reassembles he
will renew his demand for adequate
hearings, which were promised by the
late Senate Leader Robinson and
Chslrman Buchanan Of the House
Appropriations and Reorganization
Committees. In the meantime he
"prays' that IAN aroused public senti-
r1ent Will restore to our membership
some Of the courage which formerly
rhara cterized membership in the House
OF Representatives and the Senate Of
the United States"
Points to Hearings.
Representative Taber, speaking for
the Republicans, points out that the
only hearings that have been held
upon this important subject of re-
organizing the entire Government
structure, built up during $50 years in
Fccordance with thousands of substan-
I'VE laws and executive orders, is found
n 4l4 pages of testimony, largely
BY administration spokesmen before
he joint committee.
An omnibus reorganization bill to
barry out the Presidents program has
been reported in the Senate by Senator
Ryrnes. Democrat, Of South Carolina
Eho succeeded Senate Leader Robin
on as chairman OF the joint COM
nttee. 1t is the administration plan
10 have this considered as special
hrd<r Of business when the next ses-
bon opens. This same program has
been divided into four bills in the
House, all OF which have been favor
Aby reported and two of which have
been passed. BY White House direc-
ton all these reorRa anization measures
were held up in the Senate until the
next session-when the drive will be
made for their passage. In the mean
time the opposition is to be modified.
Representative Taber calls the first
If the House measures the wedge
bill" creating six new administrative
a!ahtants with 4 passion for anoni-
nifty" TO serve "as a wedge between
the President and his cabinet and de-
stroy any possible efficiency in the
management Of the departments. He
r rharacteriSes 1t as a totally deStruc-
tive BILL
Sponsored by Mead.
The second bill, which passed the
House, sponsored by Representative
Mead, Democrat, OF New York, gives
the President authority for two years
to regroup, consolidate or abolish ad-
ministrative agencies, with q few out
ktanding exceptions which include the
District government and semi-judicial
commissions, and creates a new de-
partment OF welfare. Similar pro-
visions are found in the Senate omni-
bus bill. Mr.. Taber calls this au-
|thorization Of new department, to
which could be assigned activities
costing as high as four billions Of dol
lars. or one-hslf the cost Of operating