Evening star., 1920-11-26
Mccormick Measure Would
Erase Interior Branch.
Two Are Created.
MANY OTHER BUREAUS
TO BE ELIMINATED
Odds and Ends of Work Co.
Ordinated to Prevent
Waste.


to eliminate duplication of work and
of jurisdiction is proposed in bill
which will be introduced by Senator
Medill Mccormick of Illinois at the
opening of the session of Congress
December 6. A preliminary draft OF
the Mccormick bill, which makes
sweeping changes in the departments,
was made public here today.
The reorganization bill. in the opin-
ion of Senator Mccormick, Is com
panion measure to his budget bill,
which was passed by Congress and We
toed by the President last session and
which now waits for further action
by Congress. He has had such b meas
ure in mind ever since he Introduced
the budget bill in 1917.
The Interior Department is abol-
ished by the Mccormick reoreaniza- :
tion bill, and two new departments
are created in it's stead, the department
of public works and the department OF
public welfare.
Mccormick In Europe.
The bill divests the Treasury De-
partment and the war Department of
not germane to the national
finances or to the national defense In
general, it co-ordinates existing agen-
now are scattered irrelevantly and
wastefully throughout the whole gov
ernment organization.
Although Senator Mccormick has
sailed for Europe and is not expected
to return until January l. the reor-
ganization bill will be introduced
when the Senate convenes by col
league on his behalf. 1t Is not ex-
pected that any hearings or action
upon the measure will be undertaken
until Senator Mccormick returns to
Washington.
\ The Mccormick bill brings together
in the department of public works all
important engineering and building
services of the government. now scat
tered among various departments, and
authorizes the secretary of public
works to make such changes in the
organization as will increase their
efficiency and lead to economy in ex-
penditures. b.,
Army ofIicers. now detailed on en-
cheering works would continue to
hold their present assignments for
three months after the measure goes
into effect In order to give, the, secre-
tary Of public works yumsisnt time
rearrangement Of these agencies
without interrupttng important work.
Bureaus, offices and branches Of the
public service which are included in
the department of public works under
the Mccormick bill are as follow:
some, Of Provisions.
From Department of the, Interior:
General land Office, geological survey,
bureau Of mines, reclamation service.
national park service, division OF
Capitol buildings and grounds and
Alaskan engineering commission.
From Department of the Treasury:
Office of the supervising architect.
From Department sof Agriculture:
Bureau of public roads and forest
service.
ONCE Of superintendent of State,
War and Navy Department buildings.
Rock Creek and Potomac parkway
commission (abolished and its func-
tions transferred to department OF
public wo-ks).
Commission of fine arts
From the Department of War: Board
of engineers for rivers and harbors,
board of engineers Of New York city.
office of supervisor of the harbor Of New
York United States engineer offices.
Mississippi river commission, California
debris Commission. board Of road COM
missioners for Alaska. Office Of public
buildings and grounds and Washington
Monument.
Federal power commission fabolished
and it's functions transferred to depart
ment of public work).
A0vOcoteO ~ Harding.
During the presidential campaign,
Senator Harding advocated the creation
Of a department of public welfare. into
which he> would assemble all of the va
rious welfare agencies of the govern
ment, such as the woman's bureau in
the Department Of Labor. the pension
bureau in the Department of the In
terror. the public health service and
the bureau Of war risk insurance in the
Treasury Department and the voca-
tional training board, which is an inde-
pendent agency.
The Department Of Public Welfare
will include the following bureaus, Of
From Department of the Interior:
Office of Indian affairs, United States
Indian service; bureau Of pensions, bu-
reau of education. st. Elizabeth's Hos
pital. Howard University, Freedmen's
Hospital. board of Indian commission
ers (abolished).
From Department of the Treasury.
Bureau Of war risk insurance, Office
of the Surgeon General, public health
service.
From Department of Labor: Chill
dren's bureau. women's bureau.
United States employees compensa-
tion commission (abolished and its
functions transferred to bureau OF
pensions).
Federal board for vocational edu-
cation (abolished and it's functions
transferred to department of public
welfare).
United States interdepartmen So
cial hygiene board (abolished and its
functions transferred to public health
service).
National Home for Disabled volun.
teer Soldiers.
Columbia Institution for the Deaf
Enlarges Commerce Department.
The Mccormick measure, in addition
to creating the two new departments
proposes an enlargement Of the func.
tions and activities of the Department,
of Commerce, 80 NS to increase the
the future.
The measure also creates an addi-
tional assistant secretary of state, who
would have jurisdiction over our insular
affairs.
jurisdiction over territories such as
Alaska, now under the Department OF
Interior, would be transferred to the
State department..
The alien property custodian's Office
and the division Of secret service are
placed under the Department of Justice.
Senator Mccormick also would abolish
the office of the controller of the cur
rency and transfer the functions of that
office to the federal reserve board. In
this connection, he would make the
Secretary of the Treasury the single ex-
otficio member of the, board and de-
crease the membership of the board
from seven to six persons.
The Mccormick measure abolishes the
board Of mediation and conciliation and
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