Public Law 87-364 JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the creation of a commission to consider and formulate plans for the construction in the District of Columbia of an appropriate permanent memorial to the memory of Woodrow Wilson. Whereas Woodrow Wilson, as twenty-eighth President of the United States, won the enduring gratitude of the people of the United States and throughout the world for his farsighted and tireless efforts to achieve a lasting peace, with justice and freedom for all; and Whereas he so eloquently phrased the principles for which this country stands and provided, with his own high standards of integrity, vision, and compassionate good will an inspiration for generations to come: Now, therefore, be it October 4, 1961 [S. J. Res. 51] Woodrow Wilson Memorial Commis Establishment. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) there is hereby established a commission, to be known as the Woodrow Wilson sion. Memorial Commission (hereinafter referred to as the "Commission"), for the purpose of considering and formulating plans for the design, construction, and location of a permanent memorial to Woodrow Wilson in Washington, District of Columbia, or in its immediate environs. The Commission shall, in general, decide on the advisability of one of two kinds of memorials: One which would be a monument similar to those which honor Presidents Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln; or one which will serve as a building of a functional nature, or, as it is often called, a "living memorial". The Commission shall study, among others, proposals to associate the memorial with the Washington International Center program for international visitors. (b) The Commission shall be composed of the following members: (1) Former Presidents of the United States, at their pleasure; (2) Two persons to be appointed by the President of the United States; (3) Two Senators to be appointed by the President of the Senate; (4) Two Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives; and (5) Three members to be appointed by the President of the United States, one from each of the following: (A) The Woodrow Wilson Foundation; (B) The Woodrow Wilson Centennial Commission (now discharged); and (C) One member of the Department of the Interior, who shall be the Director of the National Park Service, or his representative. (c) The Commission shall select a chairman and a vice chairman from among its members. Vacancies occurring in the membership of the Commission shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. (d) The members of the Commission shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for expenses incurred by them in carrying out the duties of the Commission. (e) The Commission shall report such plans, together with its recommendations, to the President and Congress at the earliest practicable date, and in the interim shall make annual reports of its progress to the President and Congress. However, such plans and recommendations shall not be reported until the Commission has obtained the assistance and advice of the National Capital Planning Commission and the Commission of Fine Arts if the memorial is to be located in the District of Columbia, or the assistance and advice of the National Capital Planning Commission, the Commission of Fine Composition. Reports to President and Congress. Authority. Appropriation. October 4, 1961 [S. J. Res. 66] Children's Insti tute. Arts, and the National Capital Regional Planning Council if the memorial is to be located in the environs of the District of Columbia. SEC. 2. The Commission is authorized to (a) make such expenditures for personal services and otherwise for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this joint resolution as it may deem advisable from funds appropriated or received as gifts for such purpose; (b) accept gifts to be used in carrying out the provisions of this joint resolution or to be used in connection with the construction or other expenses of such memorial; and (c) hold hearings, organize contests, enter into contracts for personal services and otherwise, and do such other things as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this joint resolution. SEC. 3. There is authorized to be appropriated not more than $10,000 to carry out the provisions of this joint resolution. Approved October 4, 1961. Public Law 87-365 JOINT RESOLUTION To amend the joint resolution providing for membership and participation by the United States in the Inter-American Children's Institute. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Inter-American States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of February 16, 1960 (74 Stat. 3), which amended the Act of May 3, 1928, as amended (22 U.S.C. 269b), is hereby amended by deleting the phrase "for the fiscal years 1961 and 1962" and inserting in lieu thereof the phrase "for the fiscal years 1968 and 1964". 70 Stat. 696. October 4, 1961 [H. R. 470] foreign propagandists. Approved October 4, 1961. Public Law 87-366 AN ACT To amend sections 1 and 3 of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Registration of United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1(b) of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (56 Stat. 248), is amended by adding thereto a new paragraph (6) to read as follows: 22 USC 611. "(6) A domestic partnership, association, corporation, organization, or other combination of individuals, supervised, directed, controlled, or financed, in whole or in substantial part, by any foreign government or foreign political party;". SEC. 2. Section 3(d) of such Act is amended to read as follows: "(d) Any person engaging or agreeing to engage only in private and nonpolitical financial or mercantile activities in furtherance of the bona fide trade or commerce of such foreign principal or in the soliciting or collecting of funds and contributions within the United States to be used only for medical aid and assistance, or for food and clothing to relieve human suffering, if such solicitation or collection of funds and contributions is in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the Act of November 4, 1939, as amended (54 Stat. 48), and such rules and regulations as may be prescribed thereunder;". Approved October 4, 1961. Public Law 87-367 AN ACT To increase the limitation on the number of positions which may be placed in the top grades of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, to provide certain additional research and development positions, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I-POSITIONS IN TOP GRADES OF CLASSIFICA- CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF POLICY WITH RESPECT TO SEC. 101. (a) The Congress hereby finds that— (1) the public interest requires that effective limitations and controls be established and maintained with respect to the allocation of positions-whether by law or by administrative action— to grades 16, 17, and 18 of the Classification Act of 1949-the so-called top grades below the Federal executive level in the Government service-in order to prevent the unwarranted allocation of positions to such grades and to promote efficiency and economy in the operation of the Government; (2) one of the principal purposes of the Classification Act of 1949, as originally enacted and as amended from time to time, was, and continues to be, the establishment and maintenance, by specific provisions of such Act, of a coordinated and comprehensive authority and control over the allocation of positions to these top grades of such Act; (3) under the rules of the Senate and the rules of the House of Representatives, as applicable, and the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service of the Senate and the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service of the House of Representatives are vested with exclusive legislative jurisdiction, and charged with the duty of exercising legislative oversight and supervision, with respect to all matters within the purview of the Classification Act of 1949 and the administration thereof, including the allocation of positions to these top grades of such Act; (4) this legislative authority, duty, and jurisdiction of such committees, and the orderly and established legislative processes of the Congress generally in this respect, are being undermined by the increasing practice, resulting from certain solicitations from individual departments and agencies in the executive branch and elsewhere, of allocating additional numbers of positions to such top grades by means of appropriation Acts and other laws and reorganization plans (other than the Classification Act of 1949) which disregard the numerical limitations or the standards and procedures, or both, with respect to the allocation of positions to such grades; (5) at the present time, therefore, the pertinent provisions of the Classification Act of 1949 do not reflect, even by approximation, the existing state of the law with respect to the total number of positions which may be allocated to the top grades of such Act; and (6) this state of affairs subverts and undermines the object and purpose of the Classification Act of 1949 with respect to the allocation of positions to such top grades of such Act. October 4, 1961 [H. R. 7377] Classification Act of 1949, amendments. 63 Stat. 954. 60 Stat. 812. 63 Stat. 954. 5 USC 1071 note. Stat. 305. (b) It is, therefore, hereby declared to be the sense of the Congress (1) that the matter of requesting the allocation of additional numbers of positions to the top grades of the Classification Act of 1949, whether by groups of positions or on an individual basis, is properly within the jurisdiction of those standing committees of the Senate and House of Representatives having jurisdiction over the Classification Act of 1949 in accordance with orderly and established legislative processes-the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service of the Senate and the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service of the House of Representatives; (2) that the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, the United States Civil Service Commission, and other authority designated by the President exercise to the fullest extent the authority and responsibility of disapproving requests of the departments and agencies in the executive branch for individual exceptions (to be attained through the enactment of laws outside the jurisdiction of the committees above referred to) from the numerical limitations or the standards and procedures, or both, imposed by the Classification Act of 1949 with respect to the allocation of positions to the top grades of such Act; and (3) that, if need should develop for increasing such numerical limitations or waiving such standards or procedures, or both, in any case or cases, the matter should be presented promptly to the Congress in a manner consistent with the legislative authority, duty, responsibility, and jurisdiction of the respective Committees on Post Office and Civil Service of the Senate and House of Representatives. INCREASE IN NUMBER OF AUTHORIZED TOP GRADE POSITIONS UNDER SEC. 102. (a) Subsection (b) of section 505 of the Classification Act 63 Stat. 959; 74 of 1949, as amended (5 U.S.C. 1105 (b)), relating to the maximum number of positions authorized at any one time for grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule of such Act, is amended to read as follows: "(b) Subject to subsections (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), and (j) of this section, a majority of the Civil Service Commissioners are authorized to establish and, from time to time, revise the maximum numbers of positions (not to exceed an aggregate of nineteen hundred and eightynine) which may be in grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule at any one time, except that under such authority Ante, p. 631. 73 Stat. 700. "(1) not to exceed 25 per centum of such aggregate number may be placed in grade 17 and not to exceed 12 per centum of such aggregate number may be placed in grade 18; "(2) fifty of such positions shall be available only for allocation, with the approval of the President, for agencies or functions created after the date of enactment of this subparagraph; "(3) fourteen of such positions shall be available only for allocation to the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; "(4) six of such positions shall be available only for allocation to the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice; and "(5) four of such positions shall be available only for allocation to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board." (b) Subsection (j) of such section 505, as amended (5 U.S.C. 1105 (j)), relating to positions authorized for the Department of Defense in grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule of the Classifica tion Act of 1949, is amended by striking out "three hundred seventytwo positions" and inserting in lieu thereof "four hundred seven positions". (c) Such section 505, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(m) In any case in which, during the Eighty-seventh Congress, provisions are included in any Act of Congress (other than those contained in this Act) which authorize any agency of the Government to place additional positions in grade 16, 17, or 18 of the General Schedule, the Commission is authorized and directed to withdraw from such agency the allotments of a number of positions (equal to the number of such additional positions authorized under such Act of Congress) made by the Commission for such agency out of the number of positions authorized by subsection (b) of this section, to the extent possible in the light of the number of positions so allotted to such agency and in the light of the number of such additional positions authorized under such Act of Congress.". CONFORMING CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW SEC. 103. The following provisions of law are hereby repealed: (1) Subsections (f), (k), and (1) of section 505 of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended (5 U.S.C. 1105 (f), (k), and (1)), authorizing five positions, two hundred and sixty positions, and twenty-five positions in grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule of such Act for the National Security Council, the Department of the Treasury, and the Interstate Commerce Commission, respectively. (2) Sections 202(b) and 302(j) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (72 Stat. 742 and 747; 49 U.S.C. 1322 (b) and 1343 (h)), authorizing eight positions and seventy positions in grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule of the Classification Act of 1949 for the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Federal Aviation Agency, respectively. (3) The last sentence of section 5(a) of the Small Business Act (72 Stat. 385; 15 U.S.C. 634(a)), authorizing fifteen positions in grades 16, 17, and 18 of such General Schedule for the Small Business Administration. (4) Section 205 (a) (11) of the National Capital Transportation Act of 1960 (74 Stat. 543; Public Law 86-669), authorizing five positions in grades 16, 17, and 18 of such General Schedule for the National Capital Transportation Agency. (5) The proviso in the paragraph under the heading "FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION" and under the subheading "SALARIES AND EXPENSES" in title I of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1961 (74 Stat. 429; Public Law 86-626), authorizing six positions in grades 16, 17, and 18 of such General Schedule for the Federal Power Commission. (6) The proviso in the paragraph under the heading "CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD" and under the subheading "SALARIES AND EXPENSES" in title III of the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1959 (72 Stat. 237; 49 U.S.C. 1322, note), authorizing ter positions in such grades 16, 17, and 18 for the Civil Aeronautics Board. (7) Subsection (b) of the first section of the Act of September 23, 1959 (73 Stat. 700; 5 U.S.C. 1105, note; Public Law 86-377), containing certain provisions with respect to positions in such grades 16, 17, and 18 in the Department of Defense, which reads as follows: "(b) The total number of positions authorized by section 505(b) of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended (5 U.S.C. 1105(b)), to be 5 USC 1105. Repeals. 40 USC 665. 16 USC 793a. |