TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE. To the PRESIDENT: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, Washington, September 20, 1922. I have the honor to submit herewith for transmission to Congress the Tenth Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce, in accordance with the provisions of section 8 of the organic act, as follows: SEC. 8. That the Secretary of Commerce shall annually, at the close of each fiscal year, make a report in writing to Congress, giving an account of all moneys received and disbursed by him and his department, and describing the work done by the department in fostering, promoting, and developing the foreign and domestic commerce, the mining, manufacturing, shipping, and fishery industries, and the transportation facilities of the United States, and making such recommendations as he shall deem necessary for the effective performance of the duties and purposes of the department. He shall also from time to time make such special investigations and reports as he may be required to do by the President, or by either House of Congress, or which he himself may deem necessary and urgent. In order to comply with these requirements this report must be more than the formal document hitherto issued, and for convenience I have divided it into the following sections: I. The general administrative work of the department. II. Investigations into various economic problems in pursuance of the organic act. III. Recommendations for legislation in remedy of obsolete legislation and to meet new problems that have arisen in the department, that our commerce and industry may be advanced. IV. Special and more detailed reports of the different bureaus and divisions of the department and special recommendations of their directors. This department is by its nature a service department to business, and only incidentally participates in minor regulatory functions. In the last annual report I stated that the purposes of the administration for the forthcoming year included: First. A reorganization of the departmental expenditures with a view not only to direct economy but to more effective application. Second. A reorganization of departmental activities on a basis of cooperation with the commercial and industrial community. These cooperative activities mark an entirely new departure in an attempt to change the attitude of Government relations with business from that of interference to that of cooperation. Part I.-ADMINISTRATIVE WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT. The result of the departmental reorganization was that whereas the total appropriations made available for the department under the previous administration for the period in question were $24,320,192, yet the actual expenditure for the fiscal year was $21,024,870.17, showing a total saving of $3,295,321.83, or 13.5 per cent of the available appropriations. In the course of reorganization the expenditure upon promotion of foreign commerce and upon problems of importance to domestic commerce was increased by about $500,000 over initial appropriations, but these amounts were saved from other work in addition to the amounts shown above. During the year the Bureaus of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Census, Fisheries, and Navigation have been completely reorganized as to personnel, administration, policy, and method, so as to bring them not only greater efficiency and economy but into line with full cooperative spirit with commerce and industry in actual tangible service. The personnel of the other bureaus have been found efficient and their methods progressive and helpful. I especially commend the reports of the bureau heads as showing the great progress in fact and in zeal during the year. Moreover, the work of the department comprises not only the routine administration of the Government services in Foreign and Domestic Commerce, the Lighthouses, navigation iaws, Steamboat Inspection, Coast and Geodetic Survey, radio regulation, Census, Bureaus of Standards and Fisheries, employing a total of 12,683 persons, but it comprises a large amount of special services to commerce lying outside the province of these routine duties. During the past year, the work of the department in special directions has been much dominated by the economic situation. The conditions that prevailed threw a great burden upon the department in economic investigation at home and abroad upon which the policies of the administration during reconstruction could be founded, and in undertaking under your instructions participation for the administration in a large number of conferences with different groups of our commercial and industrial community, in assistance to their efforts to stem the tide of the crisis in different directions and to expedite recovery in others. Some of these conferences were called at the |