Evening star., 1933-04-14
II MAJOR CHANGES
LISTED IN PROGRAM
.OF REORGANIZATION
Roosevelt Expected to Issue
Order Early Next Week
Effecting Transfers.
PLAN WILL ROUND OUT :.
REDUCTIONS IN BUDGET
Interior and Commerce Depart
ments to Bear Brunt of Trans
fers and Deletions.

President Roosevelt is expected to
issue early next week an executive order
calling for a complete reorganization
of all departments and many inde-
pendent agencies Of the Government.
The President is known to be study
ing the reorganization plans submitted
to him this week by his economy ad-
visers, Secretary of Commerce Roper
and Director of the Budget Douglas.
and it was learned from sources close
to Mr.. Roosevelt it is his intention 10
make but few changes in his advisers
draft.
1t was said today in Democratic
circles that the report contains at least
II major recommendations for trans
ferring and consolidating of important
agencies.
Roper and Douglas are known to be
the administrations ranking reorgani-
zation authorities and were engaged on
the task prior to March 4. Since then
Gney nave been assisted materially by
members of the Presidents cabinet and
members of Congress. Roper informed
newspaper men on Wednesday he ex-
pected the President to take imme-
diate action on the report.
Changes Recommended.
1t was reported authoritatively today
the ADVISORS had recommended the fol-
lowing major changes in the present
structure of the Government:
l. Creation of transportation agency
IN the Commerce Department.
q. Reshaping the administrative plans
OF the Interior Department into two
DIVISIONS OF natural resources and pub
lie construction. and public welfare.
5. Complete reorganization of the
Labor Department. wedding out non-es-
sential activities and revising its sta
tistical service.
4. Consolidation of overlapping bu-
reaus In the Agriculture Department.
>. Wedding out Of non-essential ac-
uyities in the State, War, Navy, Jus
tlce and Post Office Departments.
8. Reorganization of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, reducing It from
l3 to 7-bureau agency. A Bureau of
Appeals Is to be created within the
interstate Commerce Commission set
up. and the Shipping Boards Bureau
Of Regulation and Trafic is to be trans
ferred to this agency.
2. Transfer of the Interstate Conn
merce Commissions Bureaus of Sta
tistics, Accounts. Service, Locomotive
Inspection, Safety and Finance to the
land transportation section of the Com
merce Departments transportation di-
vision.
Interior Department.
8. Transfer of the Agriculture De-
partment's Forest Service and Bureau
OF Public Roads to the Interior Depart
ment. The latter bureau is slated to
have a liaison connection with the
Commerce Departments transportation
agency.
9. Transfer of the Treasury Depart
ment's Public Health Service to the
Interior Department.
10. Regrouping of Government well
fare institutions, such as st. Elizabeth's,
Freedmen's and Gallinger Hospitals
and Columbia Institute for the Deaf
into the Welfare Division of the In
terror Department. Howard University
would also be placed in this group.
IL. Transfer of the Bureau of Mines
from the Commerce Department to the
Interior Department
IL. Consolidation of the Federal
Board for Vocational Education and
the Interior Departments Once of
Education and to place it in the We'll
fare Division of the Interior Depart
ment
13. Regrouping of the Bureaus of
Geodetic Survey, Navigation Steamboat
Inspection, Lighthouses and Aeronautics
into the Commerce Departments
transportation structure
Yacfn 1f
tory, Shipping Board, Agriculture De-
partment's Weather Bureau. National
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
War Departments Inland Waterways
Corporation and its Survey of Northern
and northwestern Lakes, and the Topo-
graphical Mapping and Map Reproduc-
tlon Section of the Interior Depart
pents Geological Survey to the Com
merce Departments Transportation
Agency.
is. Abolition of the Commerce De-
partment's foreign trade promotion Of
nces and the transfer of this activity to
the consular service of the State De-
partment.
Restores Old Bureaus.
Is Transfer Of the Federal Radio
Commission, the duties of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission relating to
communications, the cable functions of
the State Department and the POST
master Generals telegram rate-making
functions to the Commerce Depart
ment's transportation agency.
IL. Consolidation of the Treasury De-
partment's Bureau of Industrial Alcohol
with the Prohibition Bureau of the Jus
tice Department.
Ihe proposed reorganization of the
Interior Department will probably take
back into its fold two of its old b,I-
reaus-Mines and Forest Service The
latter was pulled away from this de-
partment by Clifford Pinchot of Penn
sylvanla when he was chief forester in
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