Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1937, Page 4

BUCHANAN URGES JOINT COMMITTEE Reorganizing G overnment ‘Branches Held Permanent and Continuing Job. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Reorganization of the administrative branch of the Government should be undertaken as a permanent and con- tinuing job, with House and Senate co-operating in & joint committee, Chairman Buchanan of the special committee appointed by the House in the last session to study this subject, reported to the House late yesterday. His report was accompanied by two resolutions—one providing for ap- pointment of such a committee, and the other for change in the House rules to permit appointment of such & committee. ‘There are three separate committees feady to make reorganization re- ports—one named by the President to make a study for him; one authorized by Senate resolution, headed by Benator Byrd; and the third, first to report, by the special House committee, 88 recommended in a message by the President. The Buchanan report filed fn the House is signed by the three surviving members—Buchanan. Chair- man Cochran of the Committee on Expenditures and Representative James W. Wadsworth, Republican, of New York. Representative Prentis Brown, Republican, of Michigan, ‘another member, was elected to the | Benate, and Representative Frederick | R. Lehlbach, Republican, of New | Jersey was defeated. The committee’s recommendations | were: That for 'he time being the com- | mittee be continued, but only until | there is created a regular, permanent standing committee of the House. That, if the Senate approves, a like eommittee of the Senate be named to Join with the new House committee— each to be composed of not less than five or more than seven members. That each of these committees be given the employe personnel custo- marily furnished to other standing committees. That the Joint Committee on Government Organization be created by joint or concurrent resolution. That this joint committee be per- mitted to employ a sufficient force of experts and other personmel to enable it to prosecute the inquiries that it deems necessary in a diligent and effective manner, their compensation to be governed by the schedules of the classification act. That this Joint Committee, after eonducting investigations, report its recommendations to the House and Senate for reference to the proper standing committee, Authority for Hearings. The Buchanan committee further recommended that each of the stand- ing committees, of House and Senate, be authorized under the rules to con- duct hearings and to introduce and report bills, independent hearings or upon hear- ings conducted by the joint commit- | tee, and that such bills have the same privileged status as bills reported by the Appropriations and Ways and Means Committees. The Buchanan report emphasized that this subject has been intermit- tently considered by committees of Congress since the Fifth Congress, in 1798, only nine years after Con- gress started to work. Of all these | efforts only one was able to accom- plish any material good, he says— this exception being the Dockery Commission, appointed in March, 1893, which completed its work during | the Fifty-third Congress, but pointed out that there was still much more | to be accomplished. The task set before his committee, Mr. Buchanan pointed out, could not | be adequately accomplished by his committee which ‘“expires by opera- | tion of law slightly more than six | months after its creation.” He ex- plained that the House committee collaborated with the President’s Committee on Administrative Man- agement and the Senate Select Com- mittee on Investigation of the Execu- tive Agencies of the Government in | an arrangement wherein the three committees contributed $38,200 (the contribution of the House committee | being $10,000) to be paid to the Brookings Institution to supplement amounts to be furnished by the in- stitution with which it was to make studies and a report to each of Lhe three committees. The expectation was that the in- stitution’s report would be completéd and furnished early enough to be of use to the House committee in pre- paring its report. ‘The institution has not been able to meet this expecta- tion so that the House committee, in order to comply with the terms of its appointment, has now made its report without reference to the work of the Brookings Institution other than to say that its information is that the institution’s report will be completed during the early part of thi€ month, that 1t will be voluminous and com- prehensive and will mention numerous overlappings and conflicts as between agencies in the executive branch of the Government with recommenda- tions looking to their elimination. It has been arranged so that the insti- | tution's report, when completed, will be turned over by Chairman Bu- chanan. | Police Get Perfect Reocord. PORTLAND, Ind, (#).—Police here elaim a record in efficiency. Their | 1936 box score: Arrests, 110; convictions, 110, NORFOL [OLD POINT-Tidewater Virginia ll you're on your way fe warmer . you'll appreciate this pleas- 83 lnt otel fonisht and “tomerrow morning atfer refreshing slees, you're doep in the heart of Dixie, 'O-I- further Sonth. Exceflent brary. radio, statercoms l'!llll-“. Every nisht 6:30. bresk in a tiresome jou: abeard your great stesl floate Each Way City Ticket Officer [ NAt. 1620, NORFOLK-WASHINGTON LINE COLORED LEADERS either upon their own | With President Roosevelt i chanic, who also was given a medal; Regatta Association; H. P. sterville, executive secretary, James A. Councilor, also a director, and Renr Admiral Georac Pettengill, commandnnt of the Navy Yard. THE _ EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1937. The winner of the President’s Cup Regatta, held on the Potomac River last September, is shown receiving the victory trophy from President Roosevelt at the White House today. John H. Rutherford of Palm Beach, Fla., owner and operator of the winning craft, Mc Ja 11, was awarded a medal in addition to the President’s Cug. otograph are (left to right): Comdr. J. B. Lynch, me- n the p Rutherford; H. G. Hamlet, Regatta Winner Gets President’s Cup director of the President’s Cup —A. P. Photo. OPEN CONFERENCE Many Gather Here to Dis-| cuss Problems for Better- ment of Race. The problems of improving health | and housing conditions, and providing | | security of life and equal protection | under the law for the Negro race, were | to be discussed today by the large group of colored leaders gathered here | | for a three-day national conference to draw up definite recommendations | for Federal programs affecting the Negro. Miss Josephine Roche, Assistant Sec- retary of the Treasury, and John G. | Winant, chairman of the Social Se- ‘cumy Board, were scheduled to ad- | dress the conference at an afternoon | session. | Conference Opens. ‘The conference opened at the Labor | Department yesterday with talks by | Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, and ‘Sec- retary of Commerce Roper. “At a later | session, Secretary of Labor *Perkins, | Robert Fechner, director. of the Ci- vilian Conservation Corps, and John W. Studebaker, commissioner of educa- tion, also were speakers. | Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethume, director | ! of the National Youth Administration, | sponsor of the conference, was elected | and to become a good citizen” the' secretary said that any program de- signed to help colored youths should mTum. initiative in thought and actiol permanent chairman for the sessions. She is the founder of Bethune-Cook- man College of Daytona Beach, Fla. Declaring every citizen of the United | States must feel an equal responsibility | | toward the problems of the colored | | race, Mrs. Roosevelt said it is the duty of every citizen “to think of the lives of all our children as a whole, to| give them a chance to come into their | citizenship with no sense of handicap whatever.” Roper Bpeaks. Secretary Roper recommended “that you give renewed consideration to the program advanced by that great leader, Booker T. Washington. He ad- vocated as one of your worthiest ideals the fact that the Negro has as much right to cultivate race pride as has any other people.” Declaring that “with the return to normal economic conditions, youth | seeks only that help which will broaden | his opportunity to earn a decent llvln. SAVE MONEY‘ ON LUMBER‘ Just a single boai ent lumber to wanted s extra eost. ) Free Delivery—Free Estimates. J. FRANK ELLY; SUDDEN BERVICE ber and Millwork ¢ 2121 Ga. Ave, NOrth 1341 7 rney, 1427 H Se. N.W, Dis. 3760 SHORT LINE TO CAROLINAS We repro- duce a direct wire from My. D. A. Nee who is now in the furniture market, The four Problem Committees of the conference, at a meeting this evening, will draw up a set of recommendations for presentation to officials of the Fed- eral Government. The complete story is told in the telegram above. ROOSEVELT HAILS REATIONTO TALK Scores of Telegrams Praise Message—Regatta Cup Is Presented. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt was delighted today with the favorable reaction to his annual message to Congress. Hundreds of messages from all parts of the country and several from abroad have been received by the President, each liberal in praise. Reaction yesterday was moted quickly. On his automobile ride from the Capitol to the White House, after delivering his message, the President received cheers and the comment from taxi drivers and others in automobiles along the way who had listened to the speech over the radios in their automobiles. Mr. Roosevelt was busy today pre- paring to send to Congress tomorrow the budget estimates for the next fiscal year, with his accompanying budget message. Late this afternoon the President will conduct a press conference to ex- plain in detail the budget and to an- swer questions from correspondents. Reorganization Conference. The President will conduct & simi- lar conference in respect to the re- port on governmental reorganization he will transmit to Congress next Tuesday. This reorganization press conference will be held in the Presi- dent’s office Monday. Mr. Roosevelt was happy to receive word today from Boston that his son, Franklin, jr, who has been in the hospital in that city for six weeks, has recovered sufficiently to leave within a few days. 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Springarn, presi- dent of the Nationsl Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Donsld Richberg, former head of the old N. R. A, who was a luncheon guest., DUKE HEIRESS GAVE $50,000 TO DEMOCRATS Three Other Gifts to Party in Ex- - cess of $5,000 Reported by Senate Committee. BY the Associated Press. The Senate Committee on 1936 Cam- paign Expenditures reported today that Mrs. Doris Duke Cromwell of Somerville, N. J., heiress to the Duke tobacco fortune, gave $50,000 to aid the Democratic cause. Other Democratic contributors of 45,000 or more were Mark Eisner, New York City, $12,2 Clarence R. Bit- ting, Clewiston, Fla., $5280, and A. Albert Novell, New York City, $5.010. Amounts of $5000 or more were given to the Republicans by Mrs. O, Jennings, Fairfield, Conn., $9,700; Christian R. Holmes, New York $12,000; 8. Sloan Colt, Tuxedo Park, N. Y., $5,000, and Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland, Wilmington, Del., $7,000. Formerly 359 .. 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