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Show MB SM 'PUB M UAiEIDKEuu New President Is Expected to Tear Bureaucracy Open tha budget Not tha full SS per rent of eapondilure roughly, a billion dollar which ha haa prom lead lo aava. but a big rum. Por the full reduction re-duction mora power must be had later, or congreai iteelf arnil wield tha ai. Under tha economy plan, now In final atage of congraaaional agreement, agree-ment, this la what tha president ran do: Abolish any taecutlve agency of tha government except the ten de-partmenla de-partmenla represented in tha cabinet lie may merge, transfrr or abolish any and every one of tha bureaus composing the departments so any of them may be left amply shells He cannot abolish functiona. That la tha real limit en his power, for It mrane ha must keep a tuff and permit money to be spent tor carrying carry-ing out every Job congraaa ha ordered or-dered by law. But there nothing In tha act to prevent abolishing the separata Identity of. for instance, such huge bureau aa tha veterans administration or the Interrtaui commerce com-merce commission and shitting their work and such personnel as must be retained to eome other authority. While reserving a veto power ever Action Mada Poaaibla by Congraaaional Surrandar of Powar to Exacutiva By jamib fori. Aaeeeasled Praaa I left Writer WASHINGTON. March 1 A ahake-1 p la brewing for Washington aurhi as past March 4 s never hava brought; for, barring a misstep today, eon-' greas will place to tha hand of Pranklln D. Rnoaevell power to tear, tha government s huge bureaucratic u-ucture wide open. That ha Intend to us It, and use ft thoroughly, ex per ir need observers her hava no doubt whatever. Tha very arc racy with which the economic eco-nomic preparation of hi trusted ad-v ad-v uters have been guarded for weeks Mat la token aa evidence of a eertou intent to houaeclean. By comparison, the removal of Republican Re-publican office holder not under civil servlre protection and tha substitution sub-stitution of Democrat become a mall Item. Tha erope of tha power given Mr Itooaeveit in tha reorganiiation bill I wide enough lo rut million off the president' order, rongreaa mada ! it application almost Impossible. HOWLS OP PBOTBST I Tha power, therefore, baa been called by many dictatorial It la far wider than that given to President Hoover last year, and Ita application la certain to bring howls of protest from counties in teres ted group. But the next preeident ha offered cheerfully cheer-fully to shoulder all that- One possible combination In the general reorganisation might be a national transportation commission, combining Into tha L C. C. tha shipping ship-ping board and tha aeronautic division di-vision of tha commerce department and Ita varloua marina bureaus. The combination could be carried further fur-ther by tying all these to tha post-off post-off ire department, adding tha radio commission for a department of communication. com-munication. There ha been no evidence, evi-dence, however, that thia particular combination I m prospect. There la a definite Idea here that tha swsrm of big and amall agenda dealing with farms, farm mortgage, land settlement, etc, is to be condensed con-densed Into the agriculture department. |