POWERS OF PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT'S VICTORY CONTENTIOUS LEGISLATION (Received March 20, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, March as President Roosevelt scored a victory in a contest which closely resembled the bittei 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 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 ComptrollerGeneral's office, and other things. The measure, which was fought by leading figures of both parties on the ground that it wouTd 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 j'car passed a more limited measure.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23000, 30 March 1938, Page 13
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