President hoover seeks advice on Federal power commission

President Hoover has asked the Attorney General for a decision as to whether he has authority under the existing law, to make recess appointments to this Federal Power Commission in view of the fact that the Senate adjourned without confirming them. The Attorney General has presented his findings to the President but President Hoover has not yet disclosed them. It has been proposed that the three men whose names have been submitted be made special representatives of the three secretaries of Agriculture, Interior and War who now comprise the Commission, and that they act as such until confirmed by the Senate in December. In view of the failure of the Senate to confirm a working majority of the Commission, it is highly probable that the affairs of the Federal Power Commission will not be reorganized and stabilized as was intended by the reorganization measure, prior to the spring of 1931.