Evening star., 1949-08-17
Reorganization Plan
No. 2Up in Senate;
Approval Forecast
By the Associated Press

VI lSh OIL dp OFCl 11ColoCllV IL u
mans reorganization plan No. 2,
after handing the President
stinging defeat on his plans for
welfare department in the cabinet.
Both sides said the fight on No.
Ito transfer the Bureau of En-
ployment Security from the Fed
eral Security Administration to the
Labor Department probably
would wind up in an administra-
ton victory.
Majority Leader Lucas told re-
porters fatty the plan would 60
through.
He got a grudging second from
one of the leading opponents who
said privately that the necessary
40 Notes.-The required majority
of the full Senate-could not be
mustered to support the resolution
Of disapproval.
Vote Scheduled Today.
Opponents of the plan have con-
tended that the Employment Bu-
reau would be more fairly ad-
ministered in the FSA than in the
Labor Department. President Tru-
man and others have said that the
bureau belongs in the department
most concerned with labor.
The Senate was to vote on the
resolution at 5 pm. The resolu-
tion was offered by the Executive
Expenditures Committee which
voted 8 to against the plan.
The Presidents plan for new
welfare department combining the
functions of health, education and
welfare under single secretary Of
cabinet rank was sidetracked late
yesterday by 80 to 80 vote-11
more than required.
The fight centered largely
around Cd Oscar Ewing. present
FSA administrator and Mr.. Tru-
mans reported choice for the well
fare cabinet post, 90 charges that
Mr.. Ewing would work in the job
for socialized medicine and 90
whether the plan followed out or
violated recommendations of the
Hoover Commission on Govern
ment Reorganization.
% Democrats Back Resolution.
Twenty-three democrats, 16 from
Southern states, lined up with 81
Republicans to vote for the disap-
proval resolution. Only four Re-
publicans-Senators Aiken of Ver-
mont, LANCER of North Dakota,
Lodge of Massachusetts,. and Mar
garet Smith of Maine-favored the
plan along with % administration
minded Democrats.
Senator Lucas charged in de-
bate that Republicans were re
pudiating" former President Hoo
yer, who headed the Commission
on Government Reorganization.
Senator Taft, of Ohio. leading
the Republican opposition. denied
it. He said he believed very
strongly that Mr.. Hoover was
misled" in supporting the reor-
ganization proposal. Mr.. Hoover
was told wrongly, Senator Taft
said. that the Hoover Commis-
sion's recommendation for an in
dependent medical agency could
not be included in the plan.
Senator Lucas commented he
was shocked and surprised to find
that a good Republican from Ohio
would deal with Mr.. Hoover in
any such manner"
Later Senator Taft told re-
porters:
THE vote of the Senate is not
a disapproval of the Hoover plan.
1t is a warning to the administra-
ton that plans submitted must
be in substantial compliance with
the Hoover Commission recon-
mendations.
Plan No. ! was not in accord
with the Hoover plan. A new plan
should be submitted which is in
accord"
Mr.. Hoover issued a statement
in New York which expressed q
similar viewpoint.
His understanding, he said, was
that the Senate was not opposed
to reorganizing the Governments
social functions. but merely dis
liked step-by-step action"
Hoover Suggests New Bill.
1T would seem that the thing
to do now" Mr.. Hoover added, lis
for the Congress to consider a
bill incorporating all of the COM
MISSIONS recommendations re-
garding this agency"
The vote on reorganization
plan No. 2 was due to be followed
by an hours debate and a 6 pm.
vote on reorganization plan No.
7 to transfers the Public Roads
Administration to the Commerce
Department. 1t was under the
old Federal Works Agency when
the plan was drafted and is now
under the newly formed General
Services Agency.
The Reorganization Act. passed
earlier in the session to pave the
way for action on the various
plans, provides that a plan will
become effective go days after
being submitted to Congress by