VICTORY FOR ROOSEVELT
LONG-RANGE REFORM MEASURES BILL PASSED BY SENATE [United Press Association-By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright] (Received 30th March, 9.0 a.m.) WASHINGTON, 28th March. President Roosevelt scored a victory in a contest which closely resembled the bitter Supreme Court fight when the Senate passed the so-called Governmental Reorganisation Bill, one of his four principal long-range reform measures, under which he is authorised to reduce, co-ordinate and reorganise the various executive agencies of the Government and vesting in him extraordinary powers to abolish the Civil Service Commission, change the merit system and abolish the Comp-troller-General’s office and other things. The measure, which was fought by leading figures In 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 with the House of Representatives, which last year passed a more limited measure.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 30 March 1938, Page 7
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