mittees of the Congress, making an equitable allocation of sums appropriated among the courts involved according to relative need; (b) under limitations of law and general policies of the Judicial Conference fixing the number and salaries of classes of supporting personnel according to uniform principles, and recommending salaries of court reporters and referees which are fixed by the Judicial Conference; (c) arranging with the Public Buildings Administration and the Post Office Department for quarters for the courts which are adequate but economical for the purpose served; (d) procuring office equipment, supplies, and communications and other impersonal services for the courts so as to attain maximum utility consistent with economy; (e) auditing expenditures of court officers subject to the final audit of the General Accounting Office, and endeavoring to adjust differences arising between the courts concerned and that Office. (2) To compile, analyze, and report annually and quarterly statistics and information concerning the work of the courts, in order to disclose to the courts themselves, the judicial councils of the circuits, the Judicial Conference, and the Congress, particularly the Judiciary and Appropriations Committees, the trends in litigation, the places where reinforcement temporary or permanent is needed, and the strong and weak points in the dispatch of the judicial business; to ascertain what judges are available to give temporary service to courts of other districts and circuits in which there is congestion and to assist the Chief Ju tice in procuring such service; to attend judicial conferences of the circuits and report on the work of the courts and any developments affecting it. (3) To exercise general supervision of the Federal probation service, including fixing the number and salaries of the probation officers and clerks, endeavoring by persuasion to secure observance of the qualifications recommended by the Judicial Conference in the appointment of probation officers by the judges, and devising and using means for improving the practices of the probation officers. (4) To exercise general supervision of the referees in bankruptcy, including recommending their number and salaries to the Judicial Conference which fixes them, and making recommendations for improvement in the practices of the referees. (5) To act in the nature of an executive secretary for the Judicial Conference and its committees, including the preparation of reports on matters for the consideration of that body and its committees, and the presentation of the views of the Judicial Conference on legislation in writing or orally to the appropriate committees of the Congress. It is the function of the Director to promote economy and efficiency in the administration of the Federal judicial system, and to accomplish it by securing the voluntary cooperation of the judges and the supporting personnel of the courts. Size of organization: Number of Employees: Administrative Office, 110; United States courts, 4,000. Estimated annual expenditures for fiscal year 1949: $20,400,000. Position title: Assistant Director, Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Section of bill: 5 (b). Present salary, $9,706. 50. Date salary established: July 12, 1948, by Public Law 900 of Eightieth Congress. The base salary of $7,500 was fixed August 7, 1939, by Public Law 299 of Seventysixth Congress. Proposed salary: $15,000. Incumbent: Elmore Whitehurst. State: Texas. Responsibilities: The Assistant Director is second in command to the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, and pursuant to title 28, United States Code, section 606, acts as Director during the absence of the Director. Like the Director, he is appointed by the Supreme Court. He collaborates with the Director in the formulation and execution of the policies of the Office, the presentation of matters relating to the courts to the Judicial Conference and to the Congress, and the supervision of the staff of the Administrative Office consisting of approximately 110 persons. In addition the Assistant Director has immediate charge of the business administration and housekeeping of the courts, including among other activities the following: (a) Conferring with the budget and accounting officer of the Administrative Office during the preparation of the estimates for appropriations and advising in reference to questions or difficulties encountered; (b)` passing upon questions arising in the disbursement of court funds by the United States marshals in the field and by the disbursing officer of the Administrative Office and upon any objections to their accounts; (c) formulating salary plans for court personnel whose salaries are fixed by the Administrative Office and dealing with requests for increases in the number or salaries of personnel in the offices of the clerks of courts; (d) conducting a continuing study of the office practices of the clerks of courts and making recommendations to the clerks for simplifying their systems of record-keeping and accounting, eliminating unnecessary operations and using labor-saving machines and methods; (e) passing upon any unusual questions or difficulties arising in the audit of the expenditures of court officers; endeavoring to adjust questions arising in reference to quarters for the courts between the courts and the Public Buildings Administration and the Post Office Department, as the case may be; (g) dealing with questions arising in the furnishing of office equipment, supplies and communications, and other impersonal services of the courts; considering any irregularities appearing in the accounts of United States commissioners, court reporters, and other court officers, and endeavoring to bring about correction of any practices that are erroneous; (h) attending judicial conferences of the circuits and reporting on the work of the courts and any developments affecting it. Size of organization: Number of employees: Administrative Office, 110; United States courts, 4,000. Estimated annual expenditures for fiscal year 1949: $20,400,000. Position title: Secretary of Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture. Section of bill: 1. Present salary: $15,000. Salary established: March 4, 1925, by Public Law 624 of Sixty-eighth Congress. Proposed salary: $25,000. Incumbent: Charles F. Brannan. State: Colorado. Responsibilities: The Secretary of Agriculture is responsible to the President and the Congress for carrying out the national agricultural program through research, service, regulation, economic adjustment, and other means essential to the full development, use and conservation of the agricultural and forestry resources of the United States. The Secretary advises with the President and the Congress and recommends programs and policies essential to the well-being of American agriculture. Programs of the Department continuously influence and affect producers, processors and consumers. Through policy determinations and programs developed under general legislation, the decisions of the Secretary of Agriculture have direct bearing on the total economy of the nation and have important influences on our foreign policies and relationships with all the nations of the world. Estimated annual expenditures for fiscal year 1949: Appropriation authorized to borrow, and trust funds. --- $1, 158, 700, 000 departments and agencies. Commodity loån programs_ Size of organization: Number of employees, 72,161. 1, 500, 000, 000 2, 000, 000, 000 Position title: Under Secretary of Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture. Section of bill: 2 (a). Present salary: $10,330. Date salary established: July 3, 1948, by Public Law 900 of Eightieth Congress. Proposed salary: $15,000. Incumbent: Albert J. Loveland. State: Iowa. Responsibilities: The Under Secretary of Agriculture shares with the Secretary the responsibilities of planning and administering the programs of the Department of A griculture. He is the First Assistant to the Secretary and assumes the full responsibilities of that office during the absence of the Secretary. The programs with which the Under Secretary is concerned cover the broad fields of production, marketing, and utilization of agricultural commodities and their byproducts, the Conservation of our agricultural resources, the economic stabilization of the agricultural industry, and the most economical and advantageous use of these resources in our foreign relations. The Under Secretary participates in policy determinations and is at times designated by the Secretary as having final authority on specific programs or in specific fields of work. The decisions made by this officer and his influence on general program policies have important effects on American agriculture and world trade and relationships. Estimated annual expenditures for fiscal year 1949: Appropriation authorized to borrow, and trust funds. $1, 158, 700, 000 departments and agencies. Commodity loan programs__. Size of organization: Number of employees, 72,161. 1, 500, 000, 000 2, 000, 000, 000 Position title: Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture. Section of bill: 5 (a). Present salary, $10,305. Date salary established: July 3, 1948, by Public Law 900 of Eightieth Congress. Proposed salary: $15,000. Incumbent: Vacancy. Responsibilities: The Assistant Secretary of Agriculture participates with the Secretary and the Under Secretary in planning and carrying out the programs of the Department in accordance with statutory authority and policies of the President. He has a responsibility covering all agricultural programs through his participation in program planning and policy conferences, but frequently he is designated by the Secretary to provide leadership for specific programs or broad fields of work, such as conservation, land and water use, research activities, etc. As a general assistant to the Secretary, his recommendations help to influence and shape the basic policies and programs for the Department. His decisions on specific programs assigned to him are made for the Secretary and determine the scope of such programs and the manner in which they are carried out. In the absence of the Secretary and the Under Secretary, the Assistant Secretary carries out the responsibilities of the Secretary. Estimated annual expenditures for fiscal year 1949: Appropriation authorized to borrow, and trust funds --- Commodity loan programs__ Size of organization: Number of employees, 72,161. $1, 158, 700, 000 1, 500, 000, 000 2, 000, 000, 000 Position title: Governor, Farm Credit Administration, United States Department of Agriculture. Section of bill: 5 (a). Present salary: $10,000. Date salary established: May 16, 1933, by Public Law 75 of Seventy-third Congress. Proposed salary, $15,000. Incumbent: I. W. Duggan. State: Georgia. Responsibilities: The Governor is the executive head of the entire farm credit system. Subject only to the general direction and supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Governor has over-all direction of the Farm Credit Administration in Washington and exercises broad powers of regulation and supervision over the lending corporations and associations, numbering about 1,800, that comprise the system. These 1,800 institutions had more than 9,000 employees and had total assets of about $2,600,000,000 as of December 31, 1948. During the calendar year 1948 they made loans to farmers and farmers' cooperative associations aggregating about 134 billion dollars. As of June 30, 1948, they had outstanding $1,187,000,000 in bonds and debentures which they issue and sell to the general public (without any guaranty by the Government) to obtain loan funds. The Governor's supervisory responsibilities embrace the general management, the loan policies and terms, the fiscal operations, and all other phases of the business of the lending institutions. As examples of the importance of his responsibilities, he exercises final authority over the interest rates charged on loans and the interest rates paid on bonds and debentures. A change of one-fourth of 1 percent in the interest rate on loans could make a difference of over $4,000,000 per year to the system, while a change of one-tenth of 1 percent in the interest rate paid on bonds and debentures could make a difference of over $1,000,000 a year. Appointments to this position made by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Size of organization: Number of employees: 996, plus approximately 9,000 non-Federal employees of FCA institutions. Estimated annual expenditures for fiscal year 1949: Central office.. Banks and corporations supervised___ $3,025, 000 33, 000, 000 Position title: Administrator, Farmers Home Administration, United States Department of Agriculture. Section of bill: 5 (a). Present salary: $10,000. Date salary established: August 14, 1946, by Public Law 731 of Seventy-ninth Congress. Proposed salary: $15,000. Incumbent: Dillard B. Lasseter. State: Georgia. Responsibilities: The Administrator is responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating all program activities of the Farmers Home Administration offering the small farmer a start on the road to better farming and improved living for his family through supervised credit. He has ultimate responsibility for the efficiency and effectiveness of program operations in the administration of realestate loans and production and subsistence loans to low-income farmers and veterans, in the promotion of ownership of family-type farms, for providing equitable farm-debt adjustment, and for administering a water-facilities program in arid and semiarid areas of the United States. The program currently being administered involves an annual expenditure of approximately $118,000,000. Collections in the fiscal year 1948 amounted to $148,000,000, involving the outstanding indebtedness of 950,000 borrowers. In addition to the current programs, the Administrator is responsible for the liquidation of the assets and liabilities of predecessor agencies, the assets of which on November 1, 1946, totaled $830,000,000. The Farmers Home Administration program is carried out through a national office, 40 State offices, 4 area finance offices, and approximately 1,600 county offices. The 40 State directors and 4 area finance managers are in charge of activities in their respective jurisdictional areas, acting for and serving under the immediate leadership of the Administrator. In addition, the Administrator directs his national office staff of technical and administrative personnel and gives approval to and directs the application of policies and procedure in administering all program activities and servicing functions. He also has primary responsibility or seeing that the Congress is kept currently advised and fully informed as to the status of the Farmers Home Administration program and that the public in general is properly advised of the activities of the Administration. The Administrator functions under the general direction of the Secretary of Agriculture. Appointments to this position made by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Size of organization: Number of employees, 15,071 (including part-time committeemen). Position title: Chief Forester, Forest Service, United States Department of Present salary: $10,000. Date salary established, June 22, 1946, by Public Law 422 of Seventy-ninth Congress. Proposed salary: $15,000. Incumbent: Lyle F. Watts. State: Oregon. Responsibilities: The Forest Service, through its Chief, has, by acts of Congress and as delegated to him by the Secretary of Agriculture, the principal responsibility for providing national leadership in the broad field of forestry and related watershed management, leading to the best practicable protection, management, development, and utilization of all forest resources in the national interest. More specifically, these major responsibilities are: 1. The national forests: The technical management (including the protection, development and utilization) of more than 180,000,000 acres of these federally owned lands in 40 States, Alaska, and Puerto Rico; an area equivalent to about 10 percent of the land area of the continental United States. This includes responsibility for the cutting of 4,000,000,000 board feet of timber from a total stand of 600,000,000,000 board feet (one-third of the remaining saw timber in this country), for the grazing of 9,000,000 head of livestock, for 20,000,000 recreation visits, for 70 percent of the big game in the West, and for the protec tion and management of many important watersheds for flood and erosion control, power, and irrigation. Cash receipts exceed $30,000,000. 2. Cooperation with 44 States, and many private owners, in obtaining better protection and forest practices on 439,000,000 acres of State and privately owned lands. These lands are in major part still being badly handled. Through these cooperating agencies, the Forest Service, through its Chief, aims to provide national leadership, education, planning, protection against fire, aid in forest planting, and technical assistance in obtaining improved forest and watershedmanagement practices. 3. All Federal forest and range research for some 1,000,000,000 acres of forest and open-range lands. (This area is equivalent to one-half of the land area of the continental United States.) This responsibility includes research for forest management, range management, watershed management, fire control, forest-products utilization, and the forest-resource survey. Included also are flood-control surveys, mainly of forested lands. Organizationally, the work of the Forest Service is handled through 10 regional offices, 152 national forests, a tropical unit, 11 forest and range experiment stations, 62 forest and range research centers, and the Forest Products Laboratory. The average number of employees is some 15,000. Many are temporary; hence the total number of employments annually exceeds 70,000. Size of organization: Number of employees, 15,000 (annual average). Estimated annual expenditures for fiscal year 1949, $70,215,821. Position title: Administrator, Production and Marketing Administration, United States Department of Agriculture. Section of bill: 5 (a). Present salary: $10,330. Date salary established: July 3, 1948, by Public Law 900 of Eightieth Congress. Proposed salary: $15,000. Incumbent: Ralph S. Trigg. State: New Mexico. Responsibilities: The Administrator of the Production and Marketing Administration reports directly to the Secretary of Agriculture and is responsible for the following programs which affect producers, market operators and consumers, and to a large degree determines the economic stability of American agriculture: 1. Commodity Credit Corporation: The price support, supply, and related programs of the Department are financed through the CCC. During the fiscal year 1949 the volume of price-support commodity loans will exceed $2,000,000,000. The purchase and supply operations for foreign governments, Army, and ECA during 1949 will approximate $1,500,000,000. The Administrator is also President of CCC and a member of its Board of Directors. 2. The agricultural conservation program, through which more than 3,000,000 farmers are assisted in carrying out conservation and soil-building practices through incentive payments averaging more than $200,000,000 annually. This program also provides a framework for the State, county, and community committee system through which the production adjustment, price-support, and related programs are administered. 3. The production-adjustment program, under which acreage allotments and marketing quotas are established for certain agricultural commodities. 4. The surplus-removal program, authorized by section 32 of the AAA Act of 1935, under which surplus agricultural commodities have been diverted from normal channels of trade through export, diversion, and direct distribution to schools and public institutions. 5. The National School Lunch Act, through which more than 6,000,000 school children are provided midday lunches. 6. The Sugar Act of 1948, which provides assistance to sugar producers totaling approximately $72,000,000 in the fiscal year 1949. 7. The marketing-services activities, involving the administration of more than a score of agricultural marketing regulatory, research, and service laws. These include the Federal Seed Act of 1912; the United States Warehouse Act of 1916; the Cotton Standards, Futures, and Classing Acts; the market-news service; and market-inspection services. Policy and program decisions made by the Administrator have a direct effect on the total economy of the Nation. Size of organization: Number of employees, 10,000 full-time Federal employees plus 100,000 non-Federal county-office employees and committeemen. |