Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations

Letter to Senator Metcalf from Helen Delich Bentley, Chairman,
Federal Maritime Commission, July 10, 1974, regarding extent of
Federal Maritime Commission regulation on U.S.-flag shipping----

Prepared statement..

Smith, Hon. James E.:

Letter to Staff Director Vic Reinemer from Dallas County Clerk

Tom E. Ellis, December 26, 1973, regarding tax roll information..

Excerpts from Texas State Law regarding Personal Property of

Banks...

Annual Report of First City Bancorporation of Texas, Inc., Houston,

Tex., for fiscal year ending December 31, 1973_

Prepared Statement

Solomon, Frederic:

Prepared statement..

Schwartz, Prof. Donald:

Prepared statement...

Appendix to prepared statement..

Harrington, Hon. Michael J.:

Interlocks:

Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates_

New England Electric System...

Ropes and Gray, Attorneys, Boston-

State Street Bank, State Street Investment Corp.

Boston Edison..

New England Gas and Electric Association_ .

Letter to John Nassikas, Chairman, Federal Power Commission, from

Hon. Michael J. Harrington, a Representative in Congress from the

State of Massachusetts, July 3, 1974, regarding concern over the

large number of interlocking directorates between public utilities

and banking institutions (with response and enclosure)

Memorandum to John Nassikas, Chairman, Federal Power Commis-

sion, from the General Counsel, Leo E. Forquer, July 29, 1974, on

Interlocking Directorates-Implementation of Public and Private

Interest Standards___

Staff Report-Division of Corporate Regulation-Securities and

Exchange Commission..

Turner, Chief Counsel E. Winslow:

Statement of Chief Counsel E. Winslow Turner regarding_chart of

primary and secondary interlocks, First National Boston Corp. - - -

Chart-Primary and Secondary Directorate Interlocks: First National

Boston Corp..

APPENDIX A-STOCKHOLDER INSPECTION OF CORPORATE RECORDS

State statutes regarding stockholders' inspection rights, with covering

memorandum from Janice E. Rubin, legislative attorney, Congressional

Research Service, to Chief Counsel E. Winslow Turner..

214

Comparison of VEPCO and Montana Power ownership data reported to FPC

with data in company records by Staff Director, Vic Reinemer..

Law Review articles on corporate records, excerpts from.......

291

299

Tulane Law Review, June 1972__.

299

307

Connecticut Law Review, Spring 1972.

APPENDIX B-TRUST DEPARTMENT INVESTMENTS AND NATURE OF

Chase Investors Management Corp. and Trust Department, Chase

Manhattan Bank..

Wilmington Trust (letter only, no investment disclosure) -

397

Security Pacific National Bank (letter only, no investment disclosure)....

397

Well Fargo Bank (letter only, no investment disclosure).

Girard Bank (letter only, no investment disclosure)...

NATURE OF NOMINEES

Letter from Morgan Guaranty Board Chairman Ellmore C. Patterson to

Chairman Metcalf, June 24, 1974, with enclosure dealing with nature

and use of various nominees

Page

397

398

Text of Chairman Metcalf's August 6, 1974 letter to 19 banks with assets

under management exceeding $5 billion regarding nature of individual

nominee accounts.

404

Responses from banks (ranked according to size of assets under manage-

Letter from Chairman Metcalf to Morgan Guaranty Board Chairman

Patterson, August 9, 1974, regarding nominee accounts..

414

Letter from Chairman Patterson to Chairman Metcalf, August 27, 1974,

regarding nominee accounts_

417

APPENDIX C-BANK RANK AND REGULATION

Regulatory status of bank holding companies with assets over $500

million as of December 31, 1973, with accompanying letter to Staff

Director Vic Reinemer from Samuel B. Chase, Jr., adviser to the

Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System..

419

Deposit rank of national banks, as of December 31, 1973, as provided by

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

Letter from Chairman Metcalf to Chairman Arthur F. Burns, Federal

Reserve Board, July 12, 1974, regarding collection of data dealing with

ownership and control of banks and bank holding companies...

Chairman Burns' July 17, 1974, response to Chairman Metcalf..

Letter from Chairman Metcalf to Comptroller of the Currency James

Smith, July 19, 1974, regarding collection of data dealing with ownership

and control of national banks..

Comptroller of the Currency Smith's October 15 response to Chairman

Metcalf

Additional disclosure requirements for large national banks, as of Octo-

ber 1, 1974, with accompanying press release and description of changes

issued July 31, 1974, and letter to Chairman Metcalf from Donald A.

Melbye, Special Assistant for Congressional Affairs, Office of the

Comptroller of the Currency..

Letter from William T. Dentzer, Jr., board chairman of Depository Trust,

to Staff Director Vic Reinemer regarding SICOVAM (French securities

depository system). -

SICOVAM, "La Societe Interprofessionnelle Pour La Compensation

Des Valeurs Mobilieres" January 1973 (a translation of SICOVAM's

description of its background and services, including a list of U.S. and

foreign-except French-corporations whose security issues are eligible

for SICOVAṀ.

Letter to Chairman Metcalf from Robert de Schietere, SICOVAM,

Letter to Staff Director Vic Reinemer from Charles W. Bisset, vice presi-

dent, First National City Bank, regarding foreign depositories, dated

September 5, 1974.

"Regulation of Bank Trust Department Investment Activities," by Martin

E. Lybecker, Yale Law Journal, vol. 82: 977, 1973--.

Statutes relating to powers of Federal Reserve Board, Comptroller of the

Currency and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to require and

enforce reporting by banks and bank holding companies..

Letter to Chairman Metcalf to Federal Reserve Board Chairman regard-

ing failure of certain bank holding companies in Texas to file complete

answers regarding interlocks..

Letter from Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns to Chairman

Metcalf, September 10, 1974, regarding failure of certain bank holding

companies in Texas to file complete answers regarding interlocks....

APPENDIX D-CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD

"Thirty Largest Stockholders of U.S. Certificated Air Carriers and Sum-

mary of Stock Holdings of Financial Institutions," and July 19, 1974,

transmittal letter to Chairman Metcalf from Civil Aeronautics Board

Chairman Robert D. Timm (see also appendix G, p. 934).

Letter and enclosures from Albert L. Rapp, vice president, Bank of New

York, to Chairman Metcalf, August 30, 1974, regarding CAB study....

Letter from Chairman Metcalf, to Vice President Rapp, September 13,

1974__

Memorandum and enclosures prepared by SEC Division of Corporation

Finance in response to Senator Metcalf's inquiry concerning the report-

ing of ownership of stock in Eastern Air Lines, Inc., by Merrill Lynch,

Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.

APPENDIX E-COMMON STOCK HOLDINGS, BY INDUSTRIAL GRoup, 1972

Original summary prepared by R. M. Soldofsky and G. N. Naidu, Uni-

versity of Iowa, from data by Julius Allen, Congressional Reference

Service, in "Disclosure of Corporate Ownership, Part I, Senate Docu-

729

Miscellaneous industrial.

APPENDIX F-COMMISSION AND GAO REGULATIONS AND PROPOSALS

REGARDING INFORMATION COLLECTION

Final regulations, as published July 2, 1974, regarding clearance of pro-

posals by independent Federal regulatory agencies to conduct or sponsor

the collection of information.

Letter to Staff Director Vic Reinemer from Assistant Comptroller General

Phillip S. Hughes with reconciliation of differences regarding com-

missions' requests for GAO clearance...

Work plan for the review of the independent Federal regulatory agencies'

information-gather activities, June 1974, GAO Office of Energy and

Special Projects_

Federal Power Commission's proposed revision of reporting requirements

regarding officerships or directorships held by directors of reporting

companies; August 29, 1974

Securities and Exchange Commission Notice of Public Fact-Finding

Investigation in the matter of beneficial ownership, takeovers and

acquisitions by foreign and domestic persons, September 9, 1974..

Letter to Chairman Muskie, July 1, 1974, from William R. Pascoe, Landels,

Ripley & Diamond, San Francisco...

774

Letter to Chairman Ray Garrett, Jr., Securities and Exchange Commis-

sion, July 9, 1974, from Chairman Metcalf and Representative Les

Aspin..

775

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