Show W washington ashington snapshots by famois preston like banquot ghost sins of the past have conle come buck back to haunt a timber number of washingtonians Washington ians the ghost spends roost most of his time hanging banging around arounia headquarters of the now new bureaus and boards and commissions which regulate everything from what a farmer plants to wages paid a clerk the haunted agencies are arc mostly diew bew ones they were set act up to administer new laws the officials read the laws a couple of times land and reached a pecolar conclusion that they had the power to do nearly anything that the ja law did not specifically forbid them to do take the labor board as aa an a a example it had bad the authority under the law to direct employers to re hire men whom they might have hav fired because ot of union activities the law say anything about forcing employers to hire men who had never worked tor for them yet the board has tried to do just that it instructed one company in new englund england to put on the payrolls and give two years back pay to men who never bad worked tor for the company it even tried once to enother company to litre hire the son of a i man who worked for or the company tho the board contended Au in this second tase case that it the company did not give a job fob to the youngster it would be discriminating against his father because tile the father happened to belong to a union several other agencies hake hae done dolle tile the sarno saino thing and now the ghost has arrived the ghost Is the so called walter loann bill it would establish prote procedure dure under which courts could deter determine inin e whether tile these se it a lit in their rules and regula eions and order had exceeded r ceded dio lia putter power aich congress Congi iss sought to grant to thein that is ib all 11 menus bluit the rules iule and oriels a hid 1 I reg I 1 Ii tolls could be in III to ami diirr tsi for 1 n I na as to cheth sr ei they too fur far it lie nati iii hiral iril to asquine fint only those who feared they aln v si tufit hinc eloiie olle too far would be fluid of if alie klanit boat hilt but today one oi of stiffest lobbying campaigns Is conducted on capitol hill by government employees who ire are afraid I 1 this chis bill was waa presented to con gress by men who thought that a stopping point should be drawn somewhere re rhey noticed the tendency of government agencies to assume more and more authority now the bill Is nearing hearing congressional acal action on it has been approved by the judiciary committees of both the senate and the house and ana it will get to a vote voe soon on ah both branches unless the frightened bureaucrats succeed in fighting it off not that lie has any connection with bureaucrats bu but it has been openly charged on capitol hill that ben bell cohen B brain rain truster no 2 Is illegally dra drawing a year yea r cohen although few people mayl may know it is on the government payroll ns as general counsel of the national dional power planning comings sidn now some legislators have raised the point that congress never created this commission and that therefore it does not legally exist it just sort of jumped into being overnight 1 when government gets into private business WHAM I 1 goes uncle sams foot on the taxpayer the has just reported a loss of on properties it foreclosed in the omaha nebraska area alone this includes colorado colerado lowa iowa minnesota kansas nebraska and north and south dakota losses in some other areas were much heavier the loss of course is made up through general taxes there is honesty in III the horld world after al all 1 two worker sut at faring from r om conscience trouble sent anonymous checks for to the treasury one said th that at he gawlt on the jol job and his conscience simply refuses to be trifled vit alth 11 the other confessed that the money 1 was accepted for services not fully and completely rendered and speaking of federal employees and otherwise the government has just set up another record the civil service commission reports that the total number of federal employees reached an ail all time high in december more than of them live in III the nations capital |