2 MESSRS. MILTON W. SHREVE (CHAIRMAN), CLE 115 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SIXTY-NINTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION MARTIN B. MADDEN, Illinois, Chairman DANIEL R. ANTHONY, JR., Kansas. WILLIAM S. VARE, Pennsylvania. WILLIAM R. WOOD, Indiana. LOUIS C. CRAMTON, Michigan. EDWARD H. WASON, New Hampshire. WALTER W. MAGEE, New York. GEORGE HOLDEN TINKHAM, Massachusetts. BURTON L. FRENCH, Idaho. MILTON W. SHREVE, Pennsylvania. L. J. DICKINSON, Iowa. FRANK MURPHY, Ohio. JOHN W. SUMMERS, Washington. HENRY E. BARBOUR, California. ERNEST R. ACKERMAN, New Jersey. II MAURICE H, THATCHER, Kentucky. FRANK CLAGUE, Minnesota. ROBERT G. SIMMONS, Nebraska. JOSEPH W. BYRNS, Tennessee. JAMES P. BUCHANAN, Texas. JAMES A. GALLIVAN, Massachusetts. GORDON LEE, Georgia. BEN JOHNSON, Kentucky. CHARLES D. CARTER, Oklahoma. EDWARD T. TAYLOR, Colorado. WILLIAM B. OLIVER, Alabama. MARCELLUS C. SHEILD, Clerk LIBRARY OF CONGRESS JAN 23 1027 DOCUMENTS DI APPROPRIATIONS, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, 1928 HEARINGS CONDUCTED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE. MESSRS. MILTON W. SHREVE (CHAIRMAN), GEORGE HOLDEN TINKHAM, ERNEST R. ACKERMAN, WILLIAM B. OLIVER, AND ANTHONY J. GRIFFIN, OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE' OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN CHARGE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE APPROPRIATION BILL FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1928, ON THE DAYS FOLLOWING, NAMELY: MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1927. STATEMENTS OF HON. J. WALTER DRAKE, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF COMMERCE; E. W. LIBBEY, CHIEF CLERK; AND THOMAS F. MCKEON, CHIEF, DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS GENERAL STATEMENT Mr. SHREVE. We begin this afternoon the hearings on the bill making appropriations for the Department of Commerce, the first item being that of salaries for the office of the Secretary, on page 179. In 1927 the Secretary's office received $254,500. The estimate for 1928 is $285,600; however, before we take up these items in detail, the committee would be very pleased to hear a general statement from Assistant Secretary Drake, if he cares to make one. Mr. DRAKE. Yes; I shall be glad to say a word or two, in order to bring the record up to date regarding the work of the department and of the Secretary's office. The work has been described in former hearings at some length, and is in the record of the hearings, so I will not go into that in detail. But I will call attention to some of the later developments, and then let Mr. Libbey, the chief clerk of the department, give you the details with regard to this appropriation. COAL MINING AND PRODUCTION PROBLEMS The situation as it has been described before as to the large amount of work which devolves upon the Secretary's office and upon the Secretary himself and all the other officials in his office is even more true as to the present time. The Department of Commerce has been brought to a point in its organization and in the duties devolving upon the Secretary of Commerce where the demands are so great for services, and on the part of the Secretary for the consideration of national problems relating to business, economics, etc., that it is very difficult to work out any organization or find the time to take care of all these demands. I do not believe it is necessary to state, because I think you gentlemen know the demands made upon the Secretary himself and the 1. |