GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SELECT COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT

ORGANIZATION

UNITED STATES SENATE

Appointed pursuant to Senate Resolution No. 69
Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session

ON

S. 2700

A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR REORGANIZING AGENCIES OF THE GOVERNMENT, EXTENDING THE CLASSIFIED CIVIL SERVICE, ESTABLISHING A GENERAL AUDITING

OFFICE AND A DEPARTMENT OF WEL

FARE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Statement of—

CONTENTS

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Merriam, Charles E., member, President's Committee on Adminis-

trative Management--

Greeley, W. B., secretary-manager, West Coast Lumbermen's Asso-

ciation.

Chapman, H. H., president, Society of American Foresters...

Gulick, Luther, member, President's Committee on Administrative

Management..

Taber, Louis J., master of the National Grange.

McClure, James G. K., Jr., American Forestry Association__.

Smith, H. A., Association of State Foresters --

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Cope, Francis R., Jr., Pennsylvania Forestry Association. -

110

Cary, Dr. Edward H., chairman, legislative activities committee,

American Medical Association.

122

Woodward, Dr. William C., legislative counsel for the American

Medical Association___.

126

Kaplan, H. Eliot, executive secretary, National Civil Service Reform

League

139

Stengle, Charles I., national president, American Federation of

Government Employees..

147

Steward, Luther C., National Federation Federal Employees.

Baldwin, Mrs. Harris T., National League of Women Voters..

Rice, M. W., Veterans of Foreign Wars

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Lyman, Josiah, Association of Federal Mechanics..

165

Eastman, Joseph B., member Interstate Commerce Commission__.

177

Sykes, Eugene O., acting chairman, Federal Communications Com-

mission...

197

Ayres, W. A., Chairman, Federal Trade Commission_

Scott, John W., Federal Power Commission.

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Brashears, Edward S., Association of Practitioners Before the Inter-

state Commerce Commission__.

208

Fulbright, R. C., National Industrial Traffic League..

Hooker, H. L., Association Railroad and Utilities Commissioners.

Smith, Elmer A., Association of Practitioners Before the Interstate

Commerce Commission..

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Miller, C. A., general counsel, the American Short Line Railroad

Association..

237

Hood, J. M., the American Short Line Railroad Association_.

Ames, Harry C., New Jersey Industrial Traffic League....

Walter, Luther M., National Industrial Traffic League-

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Ryder, Oscar B., Commissioner, United States Tariff Commission...

Madden, J. Warren, Chairman, National Labor Relations Board..

Herrell, R. H., Comptroller, Government Printing Office---

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Briggs, Dr. Lyman J., acting chairman, executive committee, Na-

tional Advisory Committee for Aeronautics-

266

Mitchell, Harry B., President, United States Civil Service Commis-

sion...

271

Hazen, Melvin C., President, Board of Commissioners of the District

of Columbia

275

Elliott, R. N., Acting Comptroller General of the United States. -

Neumann, David, Claims Division, General Accounting Office..

Bell, E. W., Chief of the Audit Division, General Accounting Office- -

Tulloss, S. B., Chief of the Investigations, Office of Comptroller

General..

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Statement of—Continued.

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Denit, J. D., Chief of the Accounting and Bookkeeping Division,

General Accounting Office..

323

Cooper, C. H., Chief of the Post Office Division, General Accounting

Office..

335

McFarland, J. C., Assistant General Counsel, General Accounting

Office..

341

Durst, V. R., Chief of the Records Division, General Accounting

Office-

342