Evening star., 1939-07-20
King 10 Spend
Summer on DC.
Reorganization
Senate Chuirmun
To Aid Commissioners
Work Out Program

Chairman King OF the Senate
District Committee announced to-
day he plans to remain in Washing
ton following adjournment of Con-
gress to work out with District Off
cials local reorganization program
for the next session.
The Utah Senator made his in
tention known following a confer
ence with the Commissioners this
morning. He said he would invite
Chairman Randolph of the House
District Committee to join in the
consultations he expects to hold
during the recess
His action follows decision by the
House Subcommittee on Reorgan-
lzatlon to postpone the modified
Griffenhagen plan until January, to
give the Commissioners more time
to analyze it and suggest amend
ments.
Senator King long has favored
conferring broader powers on the
Commissioners to deal with many
OF the routine matters that now re-
quire action by Congress. He ex-
poets to consider in detail how the
present municipal setup could be
improved, in conferences with Dis
trict Auditor Donovan, Corporation
Counsel Seal and other officials, as
we'll as the Commissioners.
Kennedy Attacks Delay.
Shortly before Senator Kings an
nouncement Chairman Kennedy of
the Reorganization Subcommittee of
the House District Committee is
sued a 2,0O0-word prepared state
ment attacking his own group for
delaying action on his bill to mod
ernlze the municipal government
and criticizing the Commissioners
for their opposition to the plan.
Decision of the subcommittee to
postpone the reorganization legisla-
ton until the next session of Con-
gress. Representative Kennedy de-
clared, renders it extremely un-
likely that any really effective plan
will be brought up or acted upon
at the next session, or for a long,
long time to come
!. The whole issue" the statement
said. lis thrown back into confu-
sion by the decision of the sub
committee to throw its experienced
pilot overheard and to proceed,
without navigator to sail unchar-
tered seas on the basis of committee
decisions on alternative courses. de-
veloped by the Commissioners of
the District and their advisers, and
by the several individual members
OF the subcommittee, without the
benefit of the intensive studies and
experience that the subcommittee
had at its command.
Held Same as Rejection.
In effect, this amounted to an
outright rejection of the plan pend
ing before the subcommittee with
out any serious attempt to consider
1t on its merits. And this rejection
was on the basis of what? State
ments by and on behalf of the Com
mlssloners that the bill pending is
1ull OF errors and cannot practically
De amended to make it satisfactory.
Representative Kennedy said he
AS6ASeeSu tlldl dCtlOIl on Ills re-
organization plan had been de-
ferred because mo better time will
ever be found to carry it out" and
said:
The present confused form Of
local government is like an auto
mobile with many wheels. each with
a separate motor of different design
from the others. and each with a
separate driving wheer. The pending
bill would substitute one motor, one
driver and arrange the other parts
OF the mechanism in due relation
ship to each other so that the entire
machine would respond to the
efforts of the driver to take it any
where the owner might wish it
to go.
IF the form proposed in the pend
(See eREORGANIZAT7O page e,