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ers by proposing that the additional
compensation for night work be reduced
by only one-third rather than by one
half, as in the present law.
Fund Transfers Continued.
The House bill continued the existing
provision allowing funds to be trans
ferred from one appropriation item
to another in the same department
up to a limit of IL per cent, and the
Senate Committee also continued it,
but with a proviso prohibiting the
transfer of money from an appropria-
ton for construction in order to pay
for personal services.
The Senate Committee recommends
repeal Of existing laws requiring the
Civil Service Commission to keep per-
Sonnel records of officers and employees
of the various Government depart
ments. 1t is proposed that such records
be kept by the departments, but would
be available to the Civil Service Com
mission and the Veterans Administra-
ton in handling retirement or other
personnel problems. In recommending
that the Bureau of Efficiency be
abolished, the committee also proposes
that the Office of chief of that bureau
be eliminated and that the President
designate some other Government
official to serve on any board of which
the chief of the Efficiency Bureau is
now member.
Changes Recommended.
In rewriting the section of the ex-
isting economy law relating to the
power of the President to reorganize
Government agencies, the most impor-
tant changes recommended are that the
President be given power to abolish the
whole or any part Of an executive
agency as well as to make transfers and
consultations, and that action by both
branches of Congress within go days
would be necessary to stop a reorgant-
zation order, whereas at present one
branch of Congress may veto an order.
Discussing its recommendations on this
subject. the Senate Committee stated !:
First, in addition to the authority
conferred by the economy act relating
to transfers and consultations, the
President is given power to abolish the
whole or any part OF any executive
agency and the functions thereof.
Second, any executive order made
under the provisions Of the act is to take
effect within go calendar days, as in the
old law, unless disapproved within such
90 days by concurrent resolution of the
Congress. Under the old law any such
executive order could be made inopera-
tive by resolution of either house of
Congress.
IF ie eY1aoi6oa1lr ,,ro,,;dad +t,o+ l., A..
new reorganization plan appropriations
or portions of appropriations, unex-
pended by reason of its operation, shall
be impounded and returned to the
Treasury"
Another recommendation made by
the Senate committee is that various
laws providing for permanent annual
appropriations be not continued and
that in lieu thereof the sums available
for carrying out such laws be appropri-
ated year by year by Congress. This
would mean that the amounts needed
for these purposes would be submitted
to Congress through the regular Budget
Bureau channels the same as In the
case Of other appropriations.
Byrns Declines Comment.
Chairman Byrns of the House Appro-
priationS Committee declined to COM
ment on the action of the Senate COM
mittee. except to say that "the House
has shown itself to be sympathetic to-
ward any reasonable reduction in Gov
ernment expenditures"
Mr.. Byrns said he did not believe
this was the proper time for him to
discuss the recommendation made to
the Senate, and reserved his judgment
until the Senate had formally acted
upon this recommendation and the bill
was brought to conference between the
House and Senate.