ROOSEVELT WINS PRESTIGE FIGHT
. (Received 10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 30. President Roosevelt scored a victory in a contest, which closely resembled the bitter Supreme Court fight when the Senate passed the socalled Governmental Reorganisation Bill, one of his four principal longrange reform measures, under which he is authorised to reduce, co-ordin-ate or reorganise various executive agencies of the Government, and vesting in him extraordinary powers to abolish the Civil Service Commission and change the merit system, abolish the Comptroller-General’s office, and other things. The measure, which was fought by leading figures on both parties on the ground that it would give the President the powers of a dictator and aroused great public interest, was plainly a test of the President’s prestige, and even to the last minute it was feared it would be defeated. The Bill now goes to a conference of the House of Representatives, which last year passed a more limited measure.
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Northern Advocate, 30 March 1938, Page 5
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