The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-04-01
5UCCE5T5 GOVT. QUIT
 AS BANKER
Hoover Com mission Makes Final Report on
 Reorganization
By JACK RUTLEDGE i.


 Hoover Commission today asked Congress to take the government out of the banking business.
 The Remember bipartisan com mission headed by former President7 Herbert Hoover recommended in it's 18th and final report on reorgan- ization of the executive branch of government that Uncle Sam quit lending money.
 Waste, favoritism and "even cor- ruption' are invited when the gov ernment makes direct loans toa firms and individuals, the report said.
 The Reconstruction Finance Cor poration, the big source of federal credit in war and depression, could he reorganized into mere guar antor Of private bank loans, tie commission suggested.
 And 30 other similar or related federal agencies should be merged or eliminated, the report continued.
 On the question of public power, the group was hopelessly snarled, and instead of making an outright recommendation, several members of the group wrote suggestions" which varied sharply Filibustering On Recovery In the Senate today, Republicans were accused of using filibuster tac-s tics to delay vote on the Europ-s can recovery program. Senator Connally D-Tex), chair man of the Senate Foreign Rela- tions Committee and floor manager G the bill, said opponents want to 'embarrass the administration by holding up action on the measure. But they won't succeed" he said. The bill being debated in the Sen- i ate would authorize continuation of the Marshall Plan for a second year. The committee has recom- mended that $5,580, 100000 be spent. The actual cash will be provided ], later by another bill. i Amount Is Involved i, The controversy has centered around the amount to be spent, not whether the Marshall Plan should ibe carried on.
 i Senators Taft (R-Ohio) and Rus | sell (D-Ga) want to cut the total down to S5,037 100000. But debate has delayed a vote on their amend ment.
 l, On the other side of Capitol Hill the fight over repeal of Fed eral taxes on oleomargarine con- tinued.
 The House Rules Committee vert i idoggedly ahead with hearings be- ] fore taking vote on when to clear
 the administration labor bill foi
 floor action.
 The bill has been approved by the Labor Committee, but the Rules i group, a sort of legislative traffic cop, has to give the go-ahead signal before the measure is brought up
 before the House itself.
 Labor Bill Controvery Some congressman backing the administration plan to kill the Taft Hartley Act say privately that two
 recent developments have dampened their original confidence in victory. One development was the two-
 week walkout in the coal mines or ldered by John L. Lewis. They fear the walkout emphasized the need for government power to end such
 strikes-a power the new bill does mot provide for.
 Second, they fear the coalition of southern Democrats and Repub- llicans which routed administration forces in the battle over the Senate rules. Dixie lawmakers, aided by
 Republicans, waged successful Ifilibuster. Some believe it is pos
 sible that the southerners, luke
 warm or openly opposed to the new flaw anyway, may return the favor and vote mo" on it.