Departments, boards, commissions, authorities, corporations, and activities of the Government of the United States as of Jan. 1, 1937 I. Congressional establishments Architect of the Capitol. Botanic Garden. General Accounting Office. II. Executive and independent establishments: 1. Departments Department of State. Department of the Treasury. Department of Justice. Post Office Department. 2. Independent executive agencies_ American Battle Monuments Commission. California Pacific International Exposition. Central Statistical Board. Civil Service Commission. Commission of Fine Arts. Coordinator for Industrial Cooperation. Emergency Conservation Work. Farm Credit Administration. Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Federal Housing Administration. Federal Reserve Board. Great Lakes Exposition Commission. National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics. National Archives. National Capital Park and Planning Commission. National Emergency Council. National Mediation Board. National Resources Committee. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration. Railroad Retirement Board. Rural Electrification Administration. Social Security Board. U. S. Board of Tax Appeals. U. S. Employees Compensation Commission. U. S. Railroad Administration. U. S. Tariff Commission. U. S. Texas Centennial Commission. Works Progress Administration. 3. Independent regulatory agencies 1 Federal Communications Commission. Federal Trade Commission. Interstate Commerce Commission. National Bituminous Coal Commission. U. S. Maritime Commission. 6 10 31 8 1 This classification includes agencies whose activities are primarily regulatory. All of the departments have important regulatory functions, and many of the other independent agencies have some regulatory activities. Departments, boards, commissions, authorities, corporations, and activities of the Government of the United States as of Jan. 1, 1937—Continued 4. Independent corporations.... Export-Import Bank. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation. Tennessee Valley Authority. 5. Dependent corporations reporting directly to the President--- Commodity Credit Corporation. Electric Home and Farm Authority. Federal Farm Mortgage Company. Home Owners' Loan Corporation. Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. 6. Establishments and governmental corporations having separate budget and staff. Alaska Railroad. Bureau of the Budget. Committee on Industrial Analysis. Consumers' Counsel, National Bituminous Coal Commission. Consumers' Project. Federal Committee on Apprentice Training. General Claims Arbitration, United States and Mexico. Indian Arts and Crafts Board. Inland Waterways Corporation. International Boundary Commission, United States, Alaska, and International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico. National Youth Administration. Panama Canal. Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration. Special Mexican Mixed Claims Commission. Tennessee Valley Associated Cooperatives, Inc. United States Housing Corporation. Virgin Islands Co. 7. Administrative committees Board of Review, Agricultural Processing Tax. Federal Open Market Committee. Food and Drug Commission. Foreign Service Building Commission. Foreign Trade Zones Board. Grain Futures Commission. Migratory Bird Conservation Commission. National Forest Reservation Commission. National Munitions Control Board. National Park Trust Fund Board. Library of Congress Trust Fund Board. 8. Advisory committees established by law or Executive order and re porting to the President__ Advisory Committee on Allotments. Advisory Council, Emergency Conservation Work. Advisory Council for the Government of the Virgin Islands. Central Housing Committee. Committee on District of Columbia Fiscal Relations. Committee on Farm Tenancy. Committee for Reciprocity Information. Council of Personnel Administration. Executive Committee on Commercial Policy. Federal Board of Hospitalization. Federal Board of Surveys and Maps. Federal Power Policy Committee. Departments, boards, commissions, authorities, corporations, and activities of the Government of the United States as of Jan. 1, 1937—Continued 8. Advisory committees established by law, etc.-Continued. Great Plains Committee. Inquiry on Cooperative Enterprise in Europe. Interdepartmental Committee on Civil International Aviation. National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics. National Advisory Committee of the National Youth Administration. National Drought Committee. President's Committee on Administrative Management. Quetico-Superior Committee. Radio Advisory Committee. 9. Miscellaneous establishments_. Columbia Institute for the Deaf. Howard University. National Academy of Science. National Railroad Labor Board. National Training School for Boys. Textile Foundation, Inc. United States High Commissioner, Philippine Islands. Washington National Monument Society. Total_____ 133 Senator BYRNES. All right. Are there any more questions of the witness? I do not think he has had a chance to answer any of them. Senator TOWNSEND. This probably should have been referred to in the hearing, but your study was made under the Deficiency Appropriation Act of June 26, 1936, was it not? Mr. BROWNLOW. I think that was it. Senator TOWNSEND. I want to ask that that act, which is short, be placed in the record. The CHAIRMAN. You mean the entire act or just the provision of the act that relates to this subject? Senator TOWNSEND. It begins by "Study of executive agencies.” The CHAIRMAN. Yes. (The act referred to is as follows:) [PUBLIC NO. 739-74TH CONGRESS] [H. R. 12624] AN ACT TITLE I. GENERAL APPROPRIATION S-LEGISLATIVE-SENATE-EXECUTIVE INDEPEND ENT OFFICES EXECUTIVE OFFICE Study of executive agencies: The President of the United States is hereby authorized to allocate, out of funds appropriated by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 (49 Stat. 115), not to exceed $100,000 for the expenses of a committee designated by him to make a study of the emergency and regular agencies of the executive branch of the Government for the purpose of making recommendations to secure the most efficient organization and management of that branch of the public service. Such committee shall ascertain whether the activities of any such agency conflict with or overlap the activities of any other such agency, and whether, in the interest of simplification, efficiency, and economy, any of such agencies should be coordinated with other agencies or abolished, or the personnel thereof reduced, and make recommendations with respect thereto. Copies of the report or reports of such studies and recommendations, together with the essential facts in connection therewith, shall be transmitted to the President and to Congress. Senator TOWNSEND. Now, you feel that you have carried out this act by the bill which you have brought up here, do you not? Mr. BROWNLOW. In part, and in part it was carried out by an assignment of funds through the House committee, and in part it will be completed by the detailed studies, or the more extensive studies, that we are going to file here. Senator TOWNSEND. There was $100,000 of the relief appropriation assigned to you for that purpose, was there not? Mr. BROWNLOW. Yes. Senator TOWNSEND. Which you have spent? Mr. BROWNLOW. No; not all of it. Senator TOWNSEND. You have no other public moneys to spend? Mr. BROWNLOW. No. What we spent we spent from that appropriation. Senator TOWNSEND. What were the highest salaries paid to your employees? In other words, how large a force did your committee have employed? Mr. BROWNLOW. We can give you a complete statement of that. They were paid one salary, at the rate of $8,000—that is, the director of research and there are others that were on a per-diem basis, and the members of the committee accepted no compensation. Senator TOWNSEND. How extensive is your pay roll at the present time? Mr. BROWNLOW. We can get that for you. We have five people, I think. Senator TOWNSEND. And what is the amount of the unexpended balance? Mr. BROWNLOWw. We can give you that. Of course, we have some printing things and other things against it. Then there is a small clerical force. Senator BYRNES. You said the members of your committee have accepted no compensation? Mr. BROWNLOW. No; except some recompense for actual traveling expenses, but no money for the three members of the committee. Senator TowNSEND. I think that ought to be shown in the report. The CHAIRMAN. We will adjourn until 10 o'clock Thursday morning. |