Evening star., 1933-06-10
REGROUP|NG ORDER
TO Be GIVEN TODAY
Main Part of Program to Be
Withheld for Regular Ses-
sion, However.
President Roosevelt was expected to

President Roosevelt was expected to
send a number of executive orders to
Congress today requesting the regroup-
ing of several major Government bu-
reaus Among them, The Star learned
on good authority, the Shipping Board
Merchants Fleet Corporation, Bureau
of Mines, the Public Health Bureau, and
the Department of Agriculture's Forest
Service
Administration leaders said the Com
merce Departments Bureau of Mines
would 60 to the Interior Department, as
would the Treasury's Public Health
Service, and the Agriculture Depart
ment's Forest Service.
The Shipping Board and the Mer-
chant Fleet Corporation will be trans
ferred to the Commerce Department,
where they will be distributed among
the marine activity bureaus of that
agency, according to official sources.
Ship Board May Lose Identity.
1t was said the Shipping Board would
lose its identity, part of its many
bureaus being merged with the Navi-
cation Steamboat Inspection and the
Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Bureaus Transportation Division.
The Public Health Service, for years
an agency under Treasury supervision
is slated to become part of the In
terior's Public Welfare Section. The
Bureau of Mines and Forest Service
are reported to be slated to join the
Reclamation, Geological Survey and
National Park Bureaus as a part of the
National Resources Section of that de-
partment.
Administration officials said an agree
ment was reached yesterday by Presi-
dent Roosevelt and members of his
cabinet after lengthy meeting. Also
present at this conference was Director
of the Budget Douglas and Assistant
Secretary of Commerce Dickinson.
s50,000,000 Saving Estimated.
while the actual number of trans
fers will be fewer, the savings probably
will be greater than anticipated" an
official said.
1t was estimated that the savings
would approximate S50.000,000.
Details of the plans were being COM
pleted this morning by Director Doug
las. He expects to submit them to the
White House by noon, it was said, and
they would probably 60 to Congress by
midafternoon.
The reorganization will be made
through executive orders and will &C
into effect automatically in go calender
days unless, as specified in the economy
act, Congress should set an earlier ef-
fective date
This, it is understood, will be re-
quested so that the program would be-
come effective July l.
Minor Part of Program.
The reorganization discussed yester-
day was only minor part of the gen.
eral reorganization program the admin
istration is planning to place in effect
at the next session of Congress.
AS one official explained it, the bu-
reaus now slated for regrouping repre-
sent non-contentious" agencies Oh
those over which no dispute has arisen
between the departments.
President Roosevelt announced fort
night ago he had shelved the genera.
reorganization program until later. The
general plan calls for the setting up o1
Commerce Department which, among
others, would absorb six of the Inter
state Commerce Commission bureaus.
Other Shake-Up Planned.
Official sources said that among bu-
reaus slated for abolition under the
program to be sent to Congress is the
Interstate Commerce Commissions Bu-
reau Of Valuation. It's 1888 appropria-
ton Of 100000 was not included ir
the 1884 budget estimates.
Besides the orders for immediate
shifts of bureau activities, the Presi-
dent is expected to announce also some
important intra ra-departmental shake
| ups, which do not necessarily require
congressional approval
At the reorganization conference be
| sides the director of the budget ant
| Dickinson were the Secretaries of tn,
| Treasury, Interior. Labor, Navy, War
Agriculture, the Attorney General ant
| the Postmaster General.
Moving Day at Bureau.
Meantime, the administration plan
| to get the industrial control and tn
| pubic works boards provided for in tn
national recovery bill, functioning a
soon as the measure is enacted.
In order to have this done imme
diately, today was moving day at tn
Commerce Department for many di
visions of the Bureau of Foreign an,
Domestic Commerce, as both the in
dustrial control and public works board
are to be located in the big building
temporarily, at least, officials said.
Several of the commodity division
located on the third floor have bee
moved to various other sections an
their rooms allotted to the board. Thos
divisions slated to be connected direct
ly with the industrial control boar
were not moved.
The Industrial Control Board wi
remain in the Commerce Department
indefinitely. officials said The stats
tical division of the Census Burea