The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-28

that they're difficult, even for eX-
Perts 10 keep track Of
As a plain case of confusion, IL
would be bad enough. It's worse
than that, though. These set-ups
overlap numerousiy They disagree
and conflict with each other There
are lealouSies between 'em-leal-
ous.e7 over r...1 t-.-47 90 .. ..-
ity and jealousies over questions OF
taxation allowances to support
their various pet projects
Congress is considerably resent
ful also Capitol HIS complaint
is that it's been legiSlatively al
most completely nulhded by the
wartime brood Of executive groups.
It's danger to American democ-
racys future, according to the
critical lawmakers. and what's
more. they charge, it's bad for our
present war effort, in that its re-
sulting in a muddle inconsistent
with our maximum efficiency. FL
nally, dishing out money to multi
plicity Of different agencies, which
ought to be merged. is represented
as calculated TO be unnecessarily
expensive, in campaign that'u be
nearly ruinous, anyway.
Tolan's Plan
Representative John II. Tolan is
chairman Of a committee that's
been investigating the matter for
some time and today calls for a
halt upon the establishment Of still
more commissions until a master
organization s. been established to
coordinate the recommendation
OF the subdivisions.
Representative Everett n. Dirk
sen has, indeed. actually pending
in the lower congressional cham
Der. a resolution for a Legislative
research service as a liaiscr body
between g lawmakers Joint COM
mittee Of senator's and representa-
tives and the large family of ex-
ecutive set-ups.
Specifically Representative Dirk
sens plan is more Of a jao at the
governments executive bran h
than Representative Tolsns sug
gestion
The Tolan scheme is for a mas
ter organization, TO be sure, but
that, so far as the proposals con-
cerned, can be as much executive
ly sponsored as the lesser ones,
only it'll assemble all their separ-
ate conclusions under a single
classification.
Representative Dirksen wants a
purely legislative committee Of p
members, chosen in partnership by
Capitol Hits two houses Besides
their lawmakers duties, Dirksen
agrees that this outfit won't find
much time TO weigh. personally,
all the advice given to EN- from
executive quarters, but their leg
islative research service will con-
sist OF experts Of their own selec-
tion-employed TO filter executive
requirements through from their
agencies sources to the intermedi-
ate services congressional bosses.
In short. says the resolutions au-
thor. To fulfill its duties to the
people. congress should be, at all
times, a co-orcinated equal Of the
executive branch. and this he
adds. has been far from the case
in recent years
Further Complications
AS might be expected. admins
tration Spokesman aren't enthusi-
sstic over the notion Of limiting its
powers. They Go. in fact. admit
a deal Of congestion Of emergency
agency personnel in Washington,
but their version is that the admin
istration itself IS Strengthening
matters out as fast as possible
whereas they believe it would be.
come perfectly hopeless with con
gress further complicating it
Representative Dirksel. by the
way, doesn't intend his proposed
committee 10 be exclusively a war
time institution It's 10 be. as he
describes il, "a joint committee OF
planning and reconstruction"
reconstruction
Therefore It's TO slop over into
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