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Senator Smoot: " If you are trying to get a reorganization of 

 the government departments, I suggest that we cannot get it 

 through if we attempt to do a thing of that kind." 



A number of other reorganization plans were brought 

 before the joint committee by various individuals. The 

 proposal of the Institute for Government Research provided 

 for a Department of Public Domain and Public Works but, 

 like similar plans, left Biological Survey and Fisheries out 

 of the public domain group. 53 Dr. Barbour of Harvard 

 University proposed a plan which centered conservation work 

 in the Department of Agriculture. 54 This proposal and that 

 of Dr. Willoughby's were among those considered at the 

 hearings of the joint committee. 



Little came of the report of the joint committee with the 

 exception of its recommendation that the Bureau of Mines 

 be transferred from Interior to Commerce Department, 

 which was carried out in 1926 during President Coolidge's 

 administration, 55 but which was moved back to Interior by 

 President Roosevelt. 56 



Executive Reorganisation: There the reorganization 

 movement rested until June 30, 1932 when, in the legislative 

 appropriation act for the fiscal year 1933, Congress author- 

 ized the President to transfer by executive order the whole 

 or part of any executive department to the jurisdiction and 

 control of another executive department; to consolidate or 

 redistribute functions vested in any executive department or 



53 Willoughby, W. F., The Reorganisation of the Administrative 

 Branch of the National Government (1922). 



54 Hearings, Joint Committee on Reorganization, op. cit., p. 67. 



66 By executive order under authority of Act. of Feb. 14, 1903, 32 Stat. 

 L. 825 as amended by Act of March 4, 1913, 37 Stat. L. 736. See opinion 

 Attorney General on President's authority under that act, 34 Op. Att. 

 Gen. 500 (1925). 



66 Executive Order No. 6611, Feb. 22, 1934. 



