Evening star., 1939-05-09

100000 q year when the re-
adjustments have been made.
The total administrative ex-
penSes of all the agencies affect
ed by this plan is about $25 ,0O0,-
600 per annum.
The reduction of such expendi-
lures, which it is probable will
be brought about by the taking
effect of the reorganizations
specified in the plan, is estimated
at 81 .250,000 per annum. Ger
tain of these economies can be
brought about at once Others
will require gradual readjust-
ment in machinery and business
practices of the agencies af-
fected.
May I repeat what I said in
my message transmitting Reor-
ganiZation Plan No. I, that in this
as in future reorganization plans
not every person will agree on
each and every detail. Out of
the many groupings and regroup-
ings proposed. a few of the in
dividual agencies conceivably
could be placed elsewhere, but I
have been seeking to consider the
functional purpose of each agency.
as required by the Reorganization
Act itself. and have made this
plan with the sole purpose of
improving the service rendered by
the Government to it's citizens in
accordance with the purposes set
out in the act.
Plan Is Expected to Be
Last for This Session.
In view of the fact that it is
now May 8, and that any reor-
ganization plan must lie before
the Congress for so calendar
days, and because the reorganiza-
tions OF an intradepartmental
character require a great deal of
research and careful, painstaking,
detailed work, I do not propose to
send any further general reor-
ganization plans to the Congress
at this session.
However, there are certain
transfers, additions and consoli-
dations of committees, commits
sions and boards which I propose
to do by means of executive and
military orders under existing
law as complementary to Reor-
ganiZation Plan No. II when 1t
becomes effective.
Then. also, by mere administra-
tive procedure, some small agen-
cies which have been listed in
various publications as independ-
ent establishments but whose in
dependence has no basis in law
or in formal executive or military
orders, may be reassigned to an
appropriate placement by admin
istrative procedure on the part
of their respective heads.
Not all of the interdepart-
mental transfers and consolida-
tions that are necessary and de-
sirable have been accomplished in
this Reorganization Plan No. II.
I am directing the Bureau Of the
Budget to study these problems
in order that they may be in
cluded in plans to be transmitted
to the Congress at its next ses-
sion.
For example, in order to save
money and to do the work more
efficiently there are some units
which should be divided so that q
part of the work may be done by
one agency and part by an
other. Take, for example, the
business of mapping. 1t Is OBJ
viously important that the work
Of making surveys and accumu-
lating data for maps should be
done in the various agencies
which are concerned primarily
with the purpose for which the
map Is being drawn. On the
other hand, the business Of man-
ufacturing maps might very well
be consolidated In order to save
money and to manufacture better
maps.
I have considered the desir-
ability Of transferring the 1uris-
diction over deportable aliens
from the immigration and Natu-
ralization Service in the Depart
ment of Labor to the Department
of Justice, but I find that TINS
matter will require further study,
or perhaps legislation, and there
fore it is not included IN this
plan.
I have also considered the
problem Of certain public lands
insofar as they present over
tapping Jurisdiction between the
Departments Of the Interior ana
Agriculture.
insofar - crops, including tsee