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Show tyranny are pending in the Judi- ciary Committees of Senate and House. These bills provide for publicity of administrative rules and pro. cedure, separation of prosecuting from judging powers, and a "day in court' 'for the citizen feeling ' himself injured by an administrative administra-tive decision. Sponsors of the various var-ious measures say they are designed de-signed to prevent government "by helter-skelter procedure which cannot be predicted in advance." There is confidence that Tom C. Clark of Texas is ready to help guard the liberties guaranteed by the Constitution. ky JamiS Prktow Businessmen and farmers may expect a swing backward toward government by law instead of by administratice edict, Washington observers believe, as a result of appointment of Tom C. Clark of Dallas, Texas, as Attorney-General. - Clark's new office makes him chief law advisor to the Truman administration. Tall, with sharp features and steady dark eyes, he is an oldline Democrat whose legal leg-al philosophy once was summed up in the phrase:. "A good lawyer doesn't file a suit unless he's sure to he'll win." As attorney-general, he's expected to live up to that philosophy. New Life . . . Clark's appointment will probably proba-bly put new life into Congressional Congression-al efforts to state administrator's powers precisely when enacting laws, and to pass legislation defining defin-ing explicitly the procedures to be followed by the multitude of executive exec-utive agencies now directing the affairs of American farmers and businessmen. Many of these agencies agen-cies will remain even after Presi. dent Truma nreorganizes the executive ex-ecutive establishments, which he has asked Congress for authority to do. The fact that Clark has a reputation repu-tation for enforcing the law as written, without attempts to twist it this way or that to support some pet theory, will make the right of judicial review more important. im-portant. Several bills to safeguard the public against bureaucratic |