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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION

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JOSEPH B. EASTMAN, Chairman

CLYDE B. AITCHISON

CLAUDE R. PORTER

WILLIAM E. LEE

CHARLES D. MAHAFFIE

CARROLL MILLER

WALTER M. W. SPLAWN

MARION M. CASKIE
JOHN L. ROGERS

J. HADEN ALLDREDGE

WILLIAM J. PATTERSON

W. P. BARTEL, Secretary.

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REPORT OF THE

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D. C., November 1, 1939.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

The Interstate Commerce Commission has the honor to submit herewith its fifty-third annual report to the Congress. The period covered by this report extends from November 1, 1938, to October 31, 1939, except as otherwise noted.

A statement of appropriations and aggregate expenditures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1939, is contained in appendix H to this report.

REORGANIZATION OF WORK

During the year we reexamined our administrative machinery and internal organization. After the survey, we made certain readjustments in the assignment of work to divisions of the Commission, and to individual members, with the expectation that efficiency and consistency in administration would be promoted by the reorganization. Under the act of August 9, 1917, we have, since October 17, 1917, divided our membership into divisions of not less than three commissioners, to each of which certain designated functions have been assigned for action. The action of such divisions, by a majority thereof, has the same effect as if taken by the Commission itself, but is subject to review or rehearing by the entire Commission. From time to time the number of divisions has been increased or decreased, and the assignment of functions has been varied as seemed to be desirable. At the beginning of the year covered by this report there were seven divisions. Of these, division 7 had been created for the administrative handling of certain cases involving applications for authority to increase rates, fares, and charges, and its work having been completed, the division was abolished February 13, 1939.

By the act of February 28, 1933, which among other things added paragraph (6) to section 17 of the Interstate Commerce Act, we were given authority, by our order, to assign or refer any portion of our work to an individual Commissioner, or to a board composed of an employee or employees of the Commission. The action taken under such delegation is by law to have the same force and effect as if made or taken by the Commission, subject to the right of any party

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