Show madden questions power of president legal right of president cool idge to appoint it 11 commission unless congress authorizes it has been lican challenged by Alart lii 13 31 madden adden chairman of the appropriations committee of tile house and that committee lins has turned down own white house requests for to pay any the expenses of the st lawrence commission and for to pay traveling and other expenses of the agricultural cultural commission when a deficiency bill 1111 wils reported to the house the lie appropriation committee announced that it was unable to approve the two menda t tons because they were propositions of major for which there la Is apparently not sufficient substantive law to bring them thein within the jurisdiction of the lie mr maddens attitude toward the st lawrence irence commission appropriation was indicated when ihrig gen ji ligar edgar assistant to the ell chief ter of engineers appeared before a subcommittee op if tile appropriations committee cittee the general started out to read a memorandum showing that the president lind appointed the commission headed by herbert hoover secretary of commerce but sir mr madden aladden demanded what authority granted tile the right to appoint the commission on which at mr hoover served tile president it gen cral jadwin replied where wits the law countered mr air madden later mr madden stated edited that uie the only legal authorization tor for funds to study the st lawrence laurence waterway was under tile the international joint conin commission its and that report must be made inada to congress the president lifts has no legal authority to appoint a commission unless congress authorizes it 11 the letter from mr Cool cooledge ligo asking for i for the agricultural commission nils slon stated that hut the in members embers had agreed to work woric for nothing and lie he 1 I feel that as tile the services they fire are rendering the government are arc in the interest of the whole people of this nation the government should pay their expenses engaged on this dusk flobert D carey one of the members lera told the that att aa two members lived in Call california fornin two in minnesota two tivo in wyoming two in pennsylvania one in new york and one in ili hansas every time they came to washington and returned about 1000 tit in railroad fares was needed |