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...desk of Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, whom President Roosevelt lately made watchdog of all emergency as well as regular Government expenditures, lay last week warrants for $100,000,000 worth of Treasury disbursements to Federal Housing Corp. Comptroller McCarl, without whose signature no Government money may be spent, refused to countersign. To Secretary of the Interior Ickes, FHC president, he explained: FHC, set up under the National Industrial Recovery Act, was to be a permanent organization, whereas its parent agency was an emergency one. That did not look legal...
...muscles bulged angrily. What with local real estate opposition to slum clearance projects, he had had trouble enough trying to get his housing program started. His ace-in-the-hole was FHC, an investment agency which put the Government squarely into the real estate business. Back to Comptroller McCarl went a tart letter taking exception to Mr. McCarl's legal interpretation...
Watchdogs. In his budget message President Roosevelt took pains to protect the Administration against charges of extravagance. Comptroller General McCarl has not had authority to check and countercheck the expenditure of Federal emergency appropriations, nor has Budget Director Douglas had power to plan their spending. The President announced in his message that on that day he was giving to Watchdogs McCarl & Douglas the power to supervise emergency as well as ordinary expenditures. But on protest of PWAdministrator Ickes that the growls of "unsympathetic" Mr. Douglas would impede allocations, the President withdrew...
...Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl came an "emergency relief" bill for $1,406,48 for a pastel tinted shower and air conditioner which Acting Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. had installed in his office last summer when he was Farm Credit Administrator. Comptroller McCarl refused to pay for such "relief...
Comptroller McCarl does not like to be told that the Government is paying too little for anything. He retorted that if the dealer was "probably" breaking code law, that was a matter for the courts to decide, that the job of Secretary Wallace was to give the contract to the lowest responsible bidder. The CCC needed some of its trucks in a hurry. A contract for 818 trucks was therefore grudgingly awarded to Ford Dealer Sabine, all to be delivered within six days at various points from Edgewater, N. J. to Kansas City...