Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1935, Page 4

A—4 wx¥ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1935. T.V. A EXPANSION MEASURE TABLED McCarl Tells House Group Audit Is “Substantially Correct.” (Continued From First Page.) e o e —— ments on the Tennessee or its tribu- tarles. The Aluminum Co. of Amer- jca, a Mellon interest, has extensive power facilities on the Little Ten- nessee River and plans to expand them. A proposal by McCarl to require T. V. A. to make all purchases through | competitive bidding also will be ac- cepted, he forecast. | In the audit of the T. V. As first year of operations, McCarl recently took exception to some purchases which he said were made without| specific authorization and others in which competitive bidding was not | employed. Controversy on Audit. Opponents of the measure have! seized on the audit as indicating ir- regularities and illegal expenditures | on the administration’s huge power “yardstick” in the Tennessee River Basin. Denying any illegalities, Arthur E. Morgan, T. V. A. chairman, had told | the committee the audit disclosed a | lack of complete investigation of facts. | Both he and McCarl had predicted that all differences of opinion would be straightened out in a forthcoming | conference over the audit. i May’s summary, prepared by Col. James E. Cassidy, a consulting engi- neer, and mimeographed by an offi- cial of the Alabama Power Co., nearly precipitated a fist fight between the Kentuckian and Representative Mav- erick last Monday. Maverick said the abstract was a fraud and an outrage. Priends and foes of T. V. A. clashed at the committee’s session yesterday over the purpose of the bill. Representative McLean, Republican, of New Jersey, said one provision at- tempts to make it legal for the T. V. A. to complete construction of the ‘Wheeler and Pickwick Landing Dams. These, he said, were started without the sanction of Congress and were “wholly illegal.” “If there were any illegalities. the legislation might validate them.” agreed David E. Lilienthal, T. V. A. director. But he argued that as T. V. A. construed the present law, it provided authority for building the dams. McLean contended the proposed legislation would give T. V. A. $100.- 000,000 to compete with private util- ities, attempt to circumvent a Federal court decision and change the present electric power policy. He said the bill refers to authority for T. V. A. to sell all the power it generates, while the old act men- tioned only surplus power. Lilienthal replied that the term “surplus” actually had no signifi- cance. He said the section mentioned by McLean merely rewrites the policy Yate AND THEY WEAR LONGER :fo&’fin il Controller General McCarl shown as he appeared before the House Military Affairs Committee today to answer questions regarding his criti= cisms of expenditures of the Tennessee Valley Authority. —A. P. Photo. in the existing statute “in language 5o clear it can not be misunderstood.” He agreed it was aimed in part at a decision by Federal Judge Grubb in Birmingham, who held that T. V. A. had no authority to market surplus power, but expressed belief that it would not “increase our au- thority at all.” ———e CASH REGISTER CAUGHT AFTER ROBBING ITSELF MARSHALL, Minn. (#).—A. J. Gag, druggist here, caught his cash reg- ister robbing itself. Almost daily shortages for the past vear puzzled and worried him—until he took the cash register apart. At the bottom of the register he | found more than $107 in dimes, four pennies and a quarter. The coins had slipped through an unnoticed crack. 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Vivid description of the tense White House-Congress bonus struggle, which resulted in & triumph for the Presi- dent, was related last night by Oliver Owen Kuhn, managing editor of The Star, in a National Radlo Forum ad- dress broadcast on a coast-to-coast network of the National Broadcasting Co. Mr. Kuhn told the history of the Patman bill, which culminated in the Senate’s refusal to override President Roosevelt's veto. Mr. Kuhn substituted for Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of the General Electric Co. and a recognized authority on finance and business, who celed a scheduled talk on “The Bonus and Inflation” after the Senate spiked the controversial legis- lation. Marriner S. Eccles, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, will make the National Radio Forum’s second talk of the week tomorrow night, when at 9:30 o'clock he discusses the admin- istration’s banking reform bill. This measure, pending before Sen- ate and House Banking and Currency Committees, has raised a storm of the author of the legislation, is a young Utah financier who has been prominently identified with the liberal group since his arrival in Washington to assume a Federal post. In his forum address Mr. Eccles is | credit and currency. {CASH BONUS HOPES WANE AS LEADERS SPLIT ON NEW BILL (Continued From First Page.) wanted to, but there were no signs of compromise from that quarter. | Representative | of Texas, author of the Patman bill, | sounded the keynote for his followers | | with the statement that “no question is settled until it is settled right.” | Senator Thomas, Democrat, of | Oklahoma, Patman bill leader in | the Senate, pointed to the majorities | in the House and Senate, and added, “The .question is not settled and will remain a paramount issue until it is settled.” He predicted it would be the dominant issue in the 1936 cam- | she will go to| paign unless the bonus had been paid | | meanwhile. James E. Van Zandt, commander ‘they're 9°v°’d‘3°§king; - they're: carefully. tail “and Whey reTpriced ' Tropical orsted Lorraine Seersuckers SOL HERZOG lncor[;onted F ST. AT 9th controversy. Mr. Eccles, said to be | expected to defend the much-attacked | section 2, which centralizes in the Federal Reserve Board control over | | | | | | telegrams to override the President. | to $1,800. Patman, Democrat, | in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said he was confident the de- feat could. be turned into victory “if the ex-service men’s organizations present a solid front in & new drive.” He sent a wire to Comdr. Frank N. Belgrano of the American Legion, who was at Ogden, Utah, inviting him to return for a conference “to unite on a measure which will in- sure victory.” The American Veterans' Associa- tion, opposed to the bonus, said the Senators voting against the Patman bill showed “moral courage.” Henry H. Curran, director of the National Economy League, sent them telegrams expressing “deep appreciation of your patriotic vote.” On yesterday's vote, three Senators who voted for the Patman bill when it first passed the Senate changed to the other side. They were Senators Coolidge, Democrat, of Massachusetts; Pittman, Democrat, of Nevada, and Pope, Democrat, of Indiana. The ad- ministration also garnered the votes of the new Senator, Chavez, Cemo- crat, of New Mexico, and Senator Gore, Democrat, of Oklahoma who was not recorded before, as well as the votes of Senators Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland, and O'Mahoney, Demo- crat, of Wyoming, who were paired last time. The momentous vote came at the | end of nearly five hours of debate before galleries so packed witn spec- tators that even Senators’ wives had to sit on steps in the aisles. Khaki- clad veterans were sprinkled through the throng and in a prominent gal- | lery seat directly facing the Vice President’s dias was Louis Ward, per- sonal representative of Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, whose address Wednes- | day night condemning the Roosevelt veto had deluged the Senate with Mrs. Hiram Johnson, wife of the Senator from California was among those who had to sit on the steps in the members’ gallery, which is rarely filled. RELIEF COUPLE JAILED 12 Republicans Join With 28 Democrats To Stop Bonus Bill The roll call sustaining the Presi- dent’s veto on the Patman inflationary bonus bill yesterday was as follows: To Override the Veto. Democrats—Adams, Bachman, Bank- head, Bilbo, Black, Bonme, Buiow, Byrnes, Caraway, Clark, Copeland, Costigan, Donakey, Duffy, Gecrge, Hatch, Lewis, Logan, Long, Maloney, McAdoo, McCarran, McGill, McKellar, Minton, - Moore, Murphy, Murray, Neely, Overton, Reynolds, Russell, Schwellenbach, Shepherd, Smith, Thomas, Oklahoma; Thomas, Utah; Trammell, Truman, Van Nuys, Wheeler. Total, 41. Republicans—Borah, Capper, Carey, Davis, Dickinson, Frazier, Gibson, Norris, Nye, Schall, Stiewer. Total, 11, Progressive—La Follette. Total, 1. Farmer-Labor—Shipstead. .Total, 1. Grand total, 54. To Sustain the Veto. Democrats—Ashurst, Bailey, Bark- ley, Brown, Bulkley, Burke, Byrd, Chavez, Connally, Coolidge, Deiterich, Fletcher, Gerry, Glass, Gore, Guffey, Harrison, Hayden, King, Lonergan, 0’Mahoney, Pittman, Pope, Radcliffe, Robinson, Tydings, Wagner, Walsh. Total, 28. Republicans to sustain: Barbour, Couzens, Hale, Hastings, Johnson, Keyes, McNary, Metcalf, Townsend, Vandenberg and White. Total, 12, Grand total, 40. Senator Norbeck, Republican, South Dakota, was the only absentee. He was announced as favoring to over- ride the veto. e EXECUTION PLEA DENIED Governor Refuses Request of Con- Austin, DULUTH, Minn, May 24 (P)—A man and wife, accused by county re- lief autorities of having lived com- | fortably the last five years on relief | doles and simultaneously fattening their bank account, were in jail last night in lieu of $2,000 bail each. 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