Show Bureau Chiefs Breathe BreatheS S Sighs of Relief Now S Lots of important cogs in the administration ad ad- adS S ministration were rooting under their breaths for the senators 5 dent Roosevelt tried to retire to vate life These bureau chiefs and 5 assistants are breathing sighs of ot re re- re reS S lief now and arid their relief has nothing 5 to do with whether Mr Roosevelt wants a third term or whether he would still like to enlarge the Su Suo Supreme Su- Su preme preme court c What has been bothering both both- bothering ering them i Ie c the reorganization bill It will b b. b recalled that the reorganization S hill bill ln which virtually gave t. t 1 the President blanket powers to shift and Sand change any government bu bureaus bu- bu 5 and ad commissions he liked r S passed the thc senate but was defeated It S by a narrow margin margin four four voles votes votes-In in inthe the e h house On One government agency took no n chances The army engi engineers engi- engi S. S are are timers old at nt this sort of T thing so o they moved in on the sen- sen seni i S x ste tea i discovered ed- ed when the ther r i i fL tr i Lo J ir I bill emerged from the special com corn committee that handled it ft that the army engineers were specifically exempt from the new powers pow rs the President was to have been given by the bilL But most of ot the worried agencies bureaus and commissions did not know how to do likewise Some of them knew but did not have the pow pow- er cr The army engineers have a cu cu- curious curious cu- cu curious rious series of at personal ties with the theelder theelder elder statesmen on Capitol Hill not possessed by any non military divi divi- division division sion slon of the government Some of the ranking officers of at the corps were appointed to West Point by senators still in the upper house Some were appointed by former sen senators but the ties still exist And the ranking officers of the corps have been in close touch with nearly all the present senators and mem mem- members members bers of the house of representatives They have discussions with them over projects during committee hearings bearings They meet them socially and gravitate together at otherwise dull parties to talk about subject of common interest interest generally generally some river or harbor project back in the legislators legislator's home state that the army officer has studied |