Archive Report
Archive Report
Following a conference with President Coolidge, September 21, senator Edge announced that he would offer a resolution granting power to reorganize the Government departments to the President, if the Smoot-Mapes bill encountered obstacles threatening its success at the next session. The power proposed to be conferred would be similar to that exercised by the president in the transfer of the patent Office and the Bureau of Mines. It would include authority to coordinate and consolidate or abolish existing bureaus, but not to create new bureaus or new executive departments.
President Coolidge subsequently stated that he was pledged to the Smoot-Mapes plan of reorganization and would use all the influence of his office to secure its enactment. He indicated, however, that he would favor the Edge ...