APPROPRIATION BILL FOR 1940 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS. SEVENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS KF27 .Ab 1925a COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS EDWARD T. TAYLOR, Colorado, Chairman CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri THOMAS S. MCMILLAN, South Carolina J. BUELL SNYDER, Pennsylvania JOE STARNES, Alabama ROSS A. COLLINS, Mississippi CHARLES H. LEAVY, Washington JOSEPH E. CASEY, Massachusetts JOHN H. KERR, North Carolina GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas HARRY R. SHEPPARD, California JOHN TABER, New York R. B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachusetts FRANCIS H. CASE, South Dakota CHESTER C. BOLTON, Ohio MARCELLUS C. SHEILD, Clerk SUBCOMMITTEE ON STATE, JUSTICE, AND COMMERCE, APPROPRIATIONS DEPARTMENTS Messrs. MCMILLAN (Chairman), MCANDREWS, RABAUT, CALDWELL, KERR, CARTER, 사 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE APPROPRIATION BILL, 1940 HEARINGS CONDUCTED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE, MESSRS. THOMAS S. McMILLAN (CHAIRMAN); JAMES MCANDREWS; LOUIS C. RABAUT; MILLARD F. CALDWELL; JOHN H. KERR; ALBERT E. CARTER; AND KARL STEFAN, OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN CHARGE OF THE DEPARTMENTS OF STATE, JUSTICE, AND COMMERCE APPROPRIATION BILL FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1940, ON THE DAYS FOLLOWING, NAMELY: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1939. STATEMENT OF HON. FRANK MURPHY, ATTORNEY GENERAL Mr. MCMILLAN. We will take up this morning the appropriation items for the next fiscal year covering the Department of Justice. The committee is honored in having with us the Attorney General, who for the first time has appeared before this committee, as you gentlemen are aware. Heretofore, we have had Attorney General Cummings with us for many years. In fact, he was a favorite, I might say. General, we are delighted to have you with us this morning. I assume that so far as the details of the appropriation items that are estimated here for the next fiscal year are concerned, they will be matters that you will expect members of your staff to handle as they are considered by the committee. However, I assume that you desire to make a general statement to the committee in connection with the Department's activities as a whole, and we will be delighted to hear from you at this time. GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Mr. MURPHY. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I have prepared a statement that I hope may be of some use to you in regard to the estimates. COMPARISON OF ESTIMATES, 1940, AND APPROPRIATIONS, 1939 The estimates for the fiscal year 1940, exclusive of trust funds and general public works, total $50,544,670, an increase of $6,941,045 over the present fiscal year. If you consider supplemental items of $2,251,000 for the present year, the net increase is slightly over $4,500,000. For the Department proper, the increase is $1,917,960, and is chiefly for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Antitrust Division, whose increases total over $1,700,000 alone. The work of the Antitrust Division is of great importance to the country from an 1 |