Evening star. [volume], November 18, 1938, Page A-9, Image 9

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. Compromise Looms
■ On Reorganization
In Next Congress
Economy Pledge May Be
Inserted to Placate
Foes 6f Former Bill
ty the Associated Press.
> There were new indications today
that friends and foes of the admin
istration's Government reorganiza
tion bill might try to work out a
compromise measure in the next
session of Congress.
Interested administration officials
said they were hopeful some new
program could be devised to elim
inate objections which sent the bill
to a house pigeon-hole last spring.
Among other things, they said,
it might be possible to insert a
definite pledge of economy—a pledge
which opposition Senators de
manded but failed to exact.
Minimum Demands.
* Opponents of the bill, who gen
erally have favored Government
reorganization in principle, said they
had certain minimum demands be
I fore any compromise could be
reached.
Senator Vandenberg. Republican,
of Michigan predicted that Congress
* never would consent to provisions of
the administration measure which
would abolish the office of Control
ler General and replace the present
bi-partisan Civil Service Commission
with a single administrator.
Mr. Vandenberg said there also
would be insistence that Congress
be given some check over the pro
posed presidential authority to re
shuffle bureaus.
“Reorganization should be a prun
ing of the governmental tree,’’ he
* said. “It should not bring a great
flowering of new functions and new
agencies.”
"Worst Features Hit.”
The original administration mea
sure provided for the creation of
two new departments—social wel
fare and public works.
Mr. Vandenberg asserted there
easily could be a compromise if the
"worst features” of the adminis
tration bill were eliminated.
Some Government officials study
ing the reorganization problem ex
pressed agreement with a suggestion
bv Representative Mead, Democrat,
of New York, a Senator-elect, that
0 the various proposals in the orig- I
inal bill be offered as separate meas
ures.
President Roosevelt has held sev- !
eral conferences on the reorganiza
tion problem during the last few
months, but has not yet adopted
specific plans. Informed persons
^generally predicted, however, that
he would outline some program in
his message to the new Congress.
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200 Passengers Shaken
As Engine Leaves Tracks
By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 18.—More than
200 passengers on a Washington
bound Pennsylvania Railroad ex
„ press were shaken late yesterday
when an electric engine left the
tracks shortly after the train left
the Baltimore station.
Passengers in cars near the loco
motive were knocked from their
Beats, but no injuries were reported
to police. The engine was hauling
Bix coaches, two refrigerator cars
and a mail car.
Railroad officials said the train
was traveling about 12 or 15 miles
an hour when all of the engine
trucks left the track. Officials de
clined to give an explanation for
the accident.
The train left for Washington 40
minutes later after another engine
was attached and the crippled loco
• motive hauled back on the tracks
by a railway crane.
Baptists Defy
Law Requiring
Finance Data
GADSDEN, Ala., Nov. 18.—Ala
bama Baptists recommended at their
State convention yesterday defiance
of a Federal law which requires ex
tensive reports on church finances
and registration.
The convention also denounced
use of Federal funds for political
purposes and condemned oppres
sion of minorities abroad.
Dr. L. E. Barton, Jasper, Ala.,
pastor, asserted the law seeking
church reports violated the “first
amendment of the Federal Consti
tution.”
"The law Is one that we should
disobey and defy,” Dr. Barton said,
"because it invades the sphere of
conscience. It is meddling of Gov
ernment in the affairs of religion.”
The Jasper minister said the Fed
eral Government's request, in the
form of a letter to pastors and
church clerks, asked for statistics
on church congregations, pastors’
salaries, commissions and other in
formation.
• —
Mechanized Bakery
A large mechanized bakery with
a daily capacity of 60 tons of
products has been completed at
Saratov, Russia.
Motor Commissioner
Resigns Position
In New York
Accused Official Says
He Does Not Want to
Embarrass Governor
Br th« Associat'd Press.
ALBANY. N. Y„ Nov. 18 —Charles
A. Harnett. New York State com
missioner of motor vehicles, await
ing trial on charges of accepting
$67,000 in bribes from four New York
City taxicab Arms, resigned yester
day.
While asserting his innocence and
expressing himself ‘‘fully conAdent
of complete exoneration," Harnett
told State Tax Commissioner Mark
Graves, in his letter of resignation,
that "I feel that it would be wholly
inappropriate for me to continue as
commissioner of motor vehicles
pending trial of the action.”
“I am particularly anxious that
both you and Gov. (Herbert H.)
Lehman be saved from any embar
rassment as a result of my present
difficulties,” he wrote.
Harnett's arrest resulted from the
year-long investigation of the taxi
cab industry by New York County
District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey,
recently unsuccessful Republican
gubernatorial candidate against
Democratic Oov. Lehman.
Mr. Graves, head of the State Tax
Department of which the Motor
Vehicle Bureau is a part, announced
Hartnett’s resignation and appointed
Carroll E. Mealey, deputy commis
sioner of motor vehicles, as acting
commissioner, effective immediately.
Harnett, nationally known for his
work in behalf of highway safety,
was charged with accepting (18.000
a year to exempt the Parmalee
Transportation Co., and three of its
affiliates from posting personal
surety bonds, while refusing similar
exemptions to its competitors.
The former Tammany jobholder,
whose State post paid him (10,000 a
year, was freed in (5,000 bail after
pleading innocent before Judge Cor
nelius Collins in New York City
Wednesday. He was appointed
motor vehicle commissioner In 1B24.
The forestry commission of Eng
land now has control of 1,000,000
acres.
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