Show 0 THIS I 1 C 1 11 44 7 IN ashington L 9 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 sew the hoover commission on ri reorganization ui of the uil uli executive br branch anc h 0 of f th the e f federal e d era ero 1 govern ment has made its report to the congress it has been on thel the congressional desks some of it for tor a matter of months yet there has been done exactly nothing to bring to fulfillment the monumental task of the commission the answer 3 as to 0 abol why Is obvious 1 many agen gen cles des with important eort support from o those t h os with w it whom I 1 1 they do 0 ine rne ilvano vano business s s s don t want to t 0 be reo r 1 and 2 the question of how a particular pa nicular governmental function f unc 4 ti on should s h ou id be b e carried carr 1 ed out j frequently collides with the policy poli question of whether it should be hn carried io out t at all nil A case in point is 19 the post office department everyone agrees that there should be no j deficit in the post postoffice office ice depart ment but there agreement ends nobody agrees on how to get rid of that deficit in the past attempts to reorganize the executive agencies has resulted in exemptions for some in the bill i which v open the door for exemptions for all president truman and cx ex i 1 dent herbert hoover stoutly oppose any exemption status for aay any y agency ency but the logroll log roll ers will get g their work in the house has p passed assed a bill which would give the president broad powers to reorganize by exec u ti tive v c p power owe r to ov overrule er r ule uie him with in 60 days after submission of his reorganization plan the senate has a similar bill which would permit either house ouse to overrule lii mil the ahr president various groups are seeking exemption for their pet agen cles cies various various individuals anu and want the army en ginders left out of any rc 1 bation plan pian the railroad labor S executives ass wants railroad regulatory agencies exempted american bankers ass wants ac lai lat status for fan banking agen xe cies cles s e etc t c T m the hc L hoover commik commis commission slon sion w would ouid reduce the number of executive agencies reporting to the president from 65 to 23 it would give the president auth aut arity hytry to name heads of units in his is dep department without senate i confirm att atlon on in the tho department of the treasury the reorganization would set up jup nine agencies transfer the reconstruction fin ance corporation export import bank and federal de deposit p insurance corporation to the treas lury tury ury and establish an account ant general c and monetary and sis credit council to coordinate the national domestic policies alln in agriculture reorganization 11 aou ld result i n seven n majoe major units provide for an assistant secretary fa 10 and an administrative ass assistant i s t ant au authorize th or i ze the secre tary to develop home lending services to farmers through farm credit administration land b banks an k s th the e 1 loans bans guaran teeing second mortgages not to exceed liquidate houe hote farmers rm ers home administration transfer bureau of land manage ment meni from interior to agrical agri cul ture turc also the food activities of the food and drug tion and overhaul the the state and county field organization of the department for por instance a in the tho departs depar tm nt therle tre nouh seim be im changes which would include transferring tr to interior the rivers and harbors and flood control functions of the cor corps p s of army engineers the commodity service and public building functions of the federal works agency and investigation of natural gas resources and power planning functions of the feder al power commission the hoover report would wooi t transfer rans f er to the labor depart depart ment the sele scle cUve service the bureau of employees compensation the employees compensation appeals board and the bureau of employment se set carity all from federal ty administration A new executive department would be created to administer the social security laws education and indian affairs the latter being transferred from interior A new health department would be set up to which would be trans transferred ferret ferrei the public service drug functions of th the e food and ana drug administration the continental general and sta tion hospitals of the a armed rm e d forces and the hospital functions of the veterans administration there are many 0 other th er f fune tune unc ional lonal changes but the experts here hero in the field of government govern men tal reorganization declare that the president c cannot annot do this job jobi it remains for congress to take charge and s spell pell out the cha changes ages for an overall over all legislative policy this uns question besides B es id es the two general bills men mentioned ti boned w which hi ch puts the beor job on the p n t there nrc arc about two d dozen bills now in the mill providing for some reorganization of a sped fi fic fie c agency |