Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 287, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1934 — Page 7

APRIL 11,1934.

PLOT CHARGED BY SENATOR IN AIR MAIL FIGHT Sponsor of New Bill Says Selfish Firms Made False Charges. BY THE HON. WARREN R. AUSTIN Unit'd State* S'nator, Vermont WASHINGTON, April ll—lmmediately after the election in November, 1932, those who did not have air mail contracts formed a society for the purpose of securing cancellations of the existing contracts and the opening of them to competitive bidding for the purpose of taking away from those who had contracts and letting to those who did not have contracts. Propaganda and lobbying by the members of this organization and their attorney resulted in the appointing of a special senate investigating committee, and in the enactment of a resolution authorizing the President to cancel contracts upon sixty days’ notice, public hearing, and the awarding and payment of damages therefor. It should be noted that these cancellations were not made under this law. Then began hearings by the special committee. Members of that society participated in the hearings. A camouflage of the operations of this society consisted in the pretense that their objective was to fly the mail for less money than the government was paying. Hits “Insincerity” of Move This sham is exposed by pointing out that the postmaster-general had arbitrary power given him in the law to fix the price from time to time as he saw fit. The Insincerity of it as a defense by the postmaster-general is exposed by the fact that he had used this power but once. On the contrary he had asked congress for an appropriation increased by one million dollars. It is my opinion that the charges of fraud were trumped up as a smoke barrage to conceal operations under the plot of the society referred to and certain members of the postoffice department. On Feb. 9, 1934, all of the contracts were canceled effective as of Feb. 19. Then followed the ill-considered use of the army to fly the mail with its ghastly loss of human life. Says President Was Misled The President was misled into support of this policy by representations in writing made by the solicitor of the postoffice department and an attorney of the department of justice. These representations give the false impression that certain contracts were extended in time for six months without authority of law and without readvertising for bids. They allege that route certificates were granted without authority of law. A flagrant misrepresentation was made that "the entire system of the United Airways was built up by the certificate or extension method.” The fact is that it was built up by the competitive bid method. These written representations did not inform the President that the transactions of the “spoils conferences” were done under provisions of the McNary-Watres act and a declared policy of the government which required such meetings. The representations gives the false impression that all extensions made were agreed upon at these meetings, whereas some of them were not even mentioned. Says His Bill Is Remedy Yesterday there was introduced a bill by Senators James Davis of Pennsylvania, Warren Barbour of New Jersey and myself, which would compel the postmaster-general to issue a route warrant to any carrier who held a route certificate which was canceled unless upon fair trial by a three-judge court the applicant has been found to be disqualified under Section 3950 of the revised statutes. This bill, if enacted into law, would restore a great institution. It would lend encouragement to industry generally by assuring industry that a contract still has value and binding force in this country; that the old-fashioned idea of trial by due process of law is a certain bulwark of our safety from sudden impetuosity of our government, that we really have rights as citizens whether as contractors with the government, or as beneficiaries of contracts with the government. Let this chapter of the air mail tragedy strike down government by men and uphold government by laws.

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