Evening star., 1950-05-09
Reorganization
Plans Acted On
ySenateUnit
Two Disopproved,
Nine Backed, One
Merely Reported
BULLETIN

President Truman, in a new
reorganization message to Con-
gress, today proposed making
the chairman of the National
Security Resources Board ~"
Nations mobilization GEAR" in
event of war. The cabinet men,
berS of the board would be
merely advisors to the chairman.
Mr.. Truman also recommended
placing the RFC under the
Commerce Department with
two RFC units transferred to
the Housing and Home Finance
Agency.
A Senate committee today dis
approved two more of President
Truman's Government reorgani-
cation plans. while approving nine
others and reporting one without
recommendation.
The two rejected by the Ex-
penditures Committee were:
Plan No. Four-broadening the
control of the Secretary of Agri-
culture over his subordinates and
giving him three new assistant
secretaries, disapproved 7 to S.
Plan No. Seven-Increasing the
powers of the chairman of the In
terstate Commerce Commission,
turned down 6 to S.
Commerce Plan Reported.
The one reported without recon-
mendation was No. Five-increas-
ing the authority of the Secretary
of Commerce over his agencies. 1t
had been objected to because of it's
affect on the Patent Office. The
vote to send it to the Senate with
out recommendation was 7 to 4.
OF the nine that won committee
approval, six were endorsed unani-
mously and will not have to be laid
before the Senate. They are:
No. 3.-Relating to the Interior
Department; No. IA. to co-ordi-
nate the administration of labor
standards; No. Is. transferring
supervision of public works in
Alaska and the Virgin Islands
from General Services Admins
tration to the Interior Depart
ment; No. Is, transferring Fed
eral aid to local school districts
and for water pollution control
from GSA to the Federal Security
Agency; No. 10. transferring the
Bureau Of Employees conpensa-
ton from Federal Security to the
Labor Department. and No. 20,
transferring from the State De-
partment to GSA functions which
have no connection with foreign
affairs.
Divided Votes on Three.
Three plans which were ap-
proved by divided votes. and
which may be argued further in
the Senate are:
No. IL. to reorganize the Federal
Communications Commission. in
dorSed, 6 to S; No. 9, to reorganize
the Federal Power Commission
approved 7 to 4, and No. 8, to re-
organize the Federal Trade Com
mission, indorsed 7 to 4.
The Senate committee is still
holding hearings on No. 81, to re-
organize the Maritime Commits
sion. The six remaining plans in
the original batch of 81 submitted
by the President in March are
being held in allegiance to find out
whether any Senators are con-
sidering resolutions of disapproval
Under the law all reorganiza-
tion plans go into effect auto
matically 60 days after being laid
before Congress unless in that in
terval one branch of Congress
adopts a resolution of disap-
proval.
The committee earlier voted
against plans to abolish the office
OF Robert N. Denham, inde-
pendent counsel to the National
Labor Relations Board, and to
terminate the independence of the
controller of the currency by
putting his Office under the Sec
retary of the Treasury. The Sen
ate is expected to kill these two
plans before the week end by
adopting the resolutions of dis
approval.