Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-03-28 | Page 6 | Spoils System Frowned Upon

SPOILS SYSTEM FROWNED UPON House Banking Group Finds Norris H 0 L C Amendment Amendment Amendment Amend Amend- ment Painful Duty WASHINGTON ASHINGTON v March 28 P IP- IP The political ad adage aRe of to the victors belong the thc spoils is likely to be chucked overboard o by the house banking committee apparently against its own desires The spoils in this particular case cass cassare are jobs in the Home Owners Owners' Loan corporation The committee first voted 9 to 5 to strike out of A bill designed to guarantee the principal of home loan bonds the so called Norris amendment amend amend- ment This provided that home loan should be selected on merit rather than by a partisan poli political test President Roosevelt however feels that Hut the elimination of parti partisanship is in line with his ideas He even made a personal telephone call i to ask Chairman D. D Ala to have the banking committee reinsert reinsert rein rein- sert the Norris amendment Voting for the Norris amendment will be a p particularly unpleasant job for Cor many a patronage hungry Democrat Demo Derner crat They have felt felt and and said openly open open- ly that ly-that that their advice was not Dot sought often enough by administration job job- givers They had much more luck however how ever with the home loan banks until until until un un- un- un til recently than with many other agencies Now however Chairman John H H. Fahey of the federal home loan bank board and the Home Owners' Owners Loan corporation has start started d a housecleaning house- house cleaning