Evening star., 1937-05-20
SENATE MAY BACK
PERMANENT c. C. c.
Administration Chiefs Pre-.
dict Presidents Request
Will Prevail.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Administration leaders predicted to-
day the Senate would support Pres1-
dent Roosevelts recommendation for
permanent Civilian Conservation
Corps. in contrast to a two-year ex-
tension voted by the House.
Senator Black, Democrat, of Ala
bama, urged the Senate also to over
rule House action limiting the 100000
enrollees to relief clients and refus-
ing civil service status to civilian en-
ployes of the camps.
House members, revolving last week
against their leaders, said they wanted
to keep Government expenditures at
a minimum and preferred to delay
making permanent any agencies
created by President Roosevelt.
Asking long life for the c. G. c.,
President Roosevelt had told Congress:
II am convinced there is ample,
useful work in protection and develop
ment of our national resources on
which the services of the corps may
be employed advantageously for an
extended future period"
Under pending legislation, the
President could authorize any agency
to administer the program. but c. C.
c. officials said they understood the
War Department would continue in
charge
The Labor, Interior and Agriculture
Departments have co-operated in the
last four years in selecting men and
corps projects.
A spokesman for Robert Fechner,
c. c. c. director, discounted the pos
sibility that c. c. C. enrollees might
form the nucleus of a volunteer army
In case of emergency, but, he added,
the youths might feel "a new obliga-
ton" for opportunities they had
had"
Senator Connally Democrat, Of
Texas, asked that enrollees be given
military training, because every
young man in America is potentially
soldier in some future war"
Senator Black said that while a
Senate committee overwhelmingly re-
jected" militarizing the service, the
camps would continue under Reserve
officers, who, he declared, profted
greatly by the experience.
Several Midwestern Senators sought
to remove the c. c. c. from War
Department control, on the ground
such supervision was 'un-Amerlcan
and militaristic."
A demand to cut $4,000 from Direc-
tor Fechner's $4,000 salary was made
yesterday by some Senate opponents
of the Presidents court proposal.
Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri,
said Fechner had too much time to
make radio talks about legislation
which is none of his business"
Black contended it was unjustified to
accuse every Government official who
went on the air OF attempting to
coerce his employees.
Clark's salary-slashing amendment
was supported by Senator Connally,
Democrat, of Texas, also an opponent
Of court reorganization, who asserted
sarcastically that w. P. A. Administra-
tor Harry L. Hopkins and Fechner
were drawing higher salaries than
Congressman because they have set
themselves up as our teachers, and
naturally get more money than their
pupils"
After Black urged the Senate to re-
store the civil service provision this
requirement. was commended by Sena-
tor Logan, Democrat of Kentucky, who
criticized the "recklessness" of c. c. G.
truck drivers which he said was re-
sulting in dozens of claims against
the Government for injuries