4. Direction of personnel management of the Department, the Foreign Service, and the special programs, including training and educational programs for the Foreign Service and departmental personnel. 5. Operation of the procurement, communication, cryptographic, transportation, and language interpretation and translation services. 6. Provision, maintenance, and operation of the physical establishments in the United States and abroad. 7. Provision of physical and personnel security within the Department, the Foreign Service, and the special programs. 8. Protection of American interests through administration of passport, visa, and munition-control laws and programs, and other pertinent laws. The Assistant Secretary participates at the highest level with the Secretary and Under Secretary in the formulation of the United States foreign policy and in the administration of the Department and the Foreign Service. Position title: Assistant Secretary of State, Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs. 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: Dean Rusk.25. State: Virginia. Responsibilities: The Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs advises and assists the Secretary in the formulation and coordination of policy and action for the conduct of United States relations with the various nations of the world, taking the initiative in affairs primarily political, and, in other affairs, stimulating the functional offices of the Department and other Federal agencies charged with primary responsibility in specialized fields. He controls the activities of and gives final approval to policy recommendations emanating from the several offices established on a geographical basis engaged in: 1. Developing basic policies to govern the conduct of United States relations with countries and areas under their respective jurisdiction. 2. Reviewing and evaluating programs and activities of other offices of the Department and other Federal agencies as they affect the political situation in a particular area. 3. Directing and instructing United States Foreign Service establishments in the countries and areas within their jurisdiction. 4. Maintaining close relationships with appropriate foreign diplomatic missions in the United States and at international conferences. The Assistant Secretary participates at the highest level with the Secretary and Under Secretary in the formulation of United States foreign policy and in the administration of the Department and the Foreign Service. Position title: Assistant Secretary of State, Assistant Secretary of State for United Nations Affairs. 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: Dean Rusk.25 State: Virginia. Responsibilities: The Assistant Secretary of State for United Nations Affairs advises and assists the Secretary in the formulation and coordination of policy and action with respect to programs for United States participation in United Nations and other international organizations. It is his responsibility to see that the most effective use is derived of the machinery of international organizations in the conduct of foreign affairs, through the development and presentation of constructive policies and programs to the United Nations and other interna'tional bodies. He is responsible for supervising the work of the Office of United Nations Affairs, which in collaboration with other offices of the Department, is responsible for the following functions: (a) Initiation and development, recommendation, and execution of United States policy on problems of concern to the United Nations and other international organizations, with particular reference to United States commitments as a member of the United Nations. 2 Mr. Rusk is temporarily serving in a dual capacity. (b) Reviews the development and execution of the foreign policy of the United States from the viewpoint of its United Nations or multilateral aspects. (c) Interprets the provisions of the United Nations Charter for use by the Department, other Federal agencies, and United States representatives to the United Nations. (d) Preparation of instructions to United States representatives to the United Nations and its related international specialized and regional organizations. (e) Implementation by the United States of decisions and recommendations of the United Nations and other international organizations. (f) Dissemination of information to the Department, to the field, and through the Office of Public Affairs, to the public regarding the United States participation in the United Nations and other international organizations assigned to the jurisdiction of the Office. The Assistant Secretary participates at the highest level with the Secretary and Under Secretary in the formulation of United States foreign policy and its implementation through membership in various international organizations. Position title: Counselor of the Department of State. Section of bill: 5 (a). Present salary: $10,330. Date salary established: July 3, 1948, by Public Law 900 of Eightieth Congress. Statutory salary of $10,000 established May 18, 1937, by Public Law 91 of Seventy-fifth Congress. Proposed salary: $15,000. Incumbent: Charles E. Bohlen. State: District of Columbia. Responsibilities: The counselor serves as close personal adviser to the Secretary of State in the entire field of foreign relations, assisting the Secretary in the consideration and solution of major problems of foreign relations, and specializing on problems of a highly critical nature. He regularly attends international meetings and conferences with the Secretary. Generally, his assignments include those matters as are referred to him from time to time by the Secretary which require uninterrupted consideration and investigation, and involve advanced policy or other questions. Position title: Member, United States Tariff Commission. Section of bill: 4. Present salary: $10,000. Proposed salary: $16,000. Incumbents: Oscar B. Ryder, Chairman, Virginia; Lynn R. Edminster, Vice Chairman, Illinois; Edgar B. Brossard, Utah; E. Dana Durand, Minnesota; John P. Gregg, Oregon; George McGill, Kansas. Responsibilities: The six members of the Tariff Commission, acting as a unit, have responsibility for investigating and reporting to the President and the Congress on the operation and effects of United States customs laws (and proposed legislation regarding them), on import competition with domestic industry and on the commercial policies of the United States and of foreign countries; for finding differences in costs of production here and abroad upon the basis of which the President may proclaim changes in tariff rates; for determining whether imports are competing unfairly and injuriously with domestic industry and, if so, recommending to the President appropriate action; for finding for each article listed for negotiations in a trade agreement the lowest duty which could be imposed without causing or threatening serious injury to the domestic industry concerned; for determining whether, with respect to an article on which a concession has been made in a trade agreement, imports are causing or threatening serious injury to the domestic industry and, if so, recommending to the President appropriate action; for determining whether imports are interfering with any program of the Department of Agriculture and, if so, recommending to the President what action should be taken to prevent such interference; for reporting annually on the operations of the trade-agreements program; for determining whether imports of Philippine articles which have preferential free entry are interfering with domestic industry and, if so, to recommend a quota which the President has authority to impose. In some cases the Commission is required to hold public hearings; in other cases it may do so at its discretion. The Commission has a number of other duties but those mentioned above include the major ones. In carrying out its duties, each Commissioner participates in all the findings and decisions. Each Commissioner also participates in the planning, and in the review and revision, of every report issued. Mr. Ryder, as Chairman of the Commission, in addition to his duties as a member of the Commission, presides over the Commission meetings and, under the direction of the Commission, has charge of the general administrative activities of the Commission. Size of organization: Number of employees, 235. Estimated annual expenditures for fiscal year 1949, $1,270,300. Position title: Member, Board of Directors, Tennessee Valley Authority. Section of bill: 4. Present salary: $10,000. Date salary established: May 18, 1933, by Public Law 17 of Seventy-third Congress. Proposed salary: $16,000. Incumbents: Gordon R. Clapp, Tennessee; James P. Pope, Idaho; Harry A. Curtis, Tennessee. Responsibilities: The members of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority are responsible for the administration of all the agency's activities. They provide administrative leadership and policy guidance for the organization, establish the administrative framework, develop plans and programs for carrying out the provisions of the basic legislation, and authorize or approve all activities and expenditures. They do not engage in detailed administrative supervision, the execution of all programs and activities being confided to a general manager who operates under the direction of the Board. The Board administers a broad program for the integrated development of the natural resources of the Tennessee Valley area, comprising approximately 40,000 square miles and including parts of seven States. The program includes the development of the water resources of the area for navigation, flood control, and power purposes, and programs for the development of the agricultural, forestry, minerals, recreation, and other regional resources, including the operation of large-scale experimental works for the production of new and improved fertilizer materials in peacetime and munitions in time of war. The TVA water-control system includes 28 major dams and reservoirs, including 9 dams on the main river which provide a 9-foot navigable channel for the entire length of the Tennessee River, a distance of 630 river miles. The power system, the largest integrated system in the country, includes 2,285,502 kilowatts of installed capacity in hydro plants, 444,900 kilowatts in steam plants, and 7,000 miles of high-tension transmission lines. TVA sells power at wholesale to 144 municipalities and cooperatives, who in turn sell power at retail to approximately 950,000 residential, commercial, and industrial consumers. In fiscal year 1948 TVA sold over 111⁄2 billion kilowatthours of electricity and received gross power revenues of more than $46,500,000; 370,000 tons of fertilizer materials were sold in that year and revenues from this source were more than $14,500,000. Size of organization: Number of employees, 13,205 as of March 31, 1949. Estimated annual expenditures for fiscal year 1949, $113,237,000. Position title: Secretary of the Treasury. Section of bill: 1. Present salary: $15,000. Date salary established: March 4, 1925, by Public Law 624 of Sixty-eighth Congress. Proposed salary: $25,000. Incumbent: John W. Suyder. State: Missouri. Responsibilities: The Secretary of the Treasury is responsible for the management of the national finances. The execution of his responsibilities involves the following duties: The supervision and over-all direction of the bureaus, offices, and divisions of the Treasury Department which are charged with (1) the collection of the revenue; (2) the management of the public debt; (3) the marketing of United States securities; (4) the maintenance of the financial accounts of the Government; (5) the receipt and disbursement of public funds, and accounting therefor: (6) the publication of statements showing the financial condition of the Government: (7) the formulation and execution of policies and programs in the international financial and monetary field which require collaboration with other governments; (8) the studying of the national economy in order that recommendations may be made for the improvement and protection of the revenue; (9) the printing of currency and securities; (10) the minting of coins; (11) the protection of the President and the suppression of counterfeiting, forging, and alteration of obligations, currency, securities, and coins of the United States; (12) the procurement and stock piling of strategic and critical materials and the purchase, warehousing, and distribution of supplies for use by Federal agencies; (13) the enforcement of tariff and export and import control acts, and the suppression of smuggling; (14) the regulation and inspection of the national banking system; (15) the protection and safety of vessels at sea and the saving of lives; (16) the enforcement of navigation laws, and those pertaining to the registry, enrollment, and licensing of vessels; (17) the inspection of vessels and the signing on of crews; (18) the suppression of illicit traffic in narcotics and the regulation of the distribution of narcotic drugs; (19) the regulation of the alcoholic beverage industry and the suppression of illicit distilleries; and (20) such other duties as may be assigned from time to time by the President of the United States. The financial integrity of the country depends upon the proper discharge of these responsibilities, therefore, they are important to the national economy. Listed below are the principal bureaus and divisions comprising the Treasury Department which are under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Bureau of Internal Revenue, Coast Guard, Office of Comptroller of the Currency, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Bureau of the Mint, Bureau of Narcotics, Secret Service, Bureau of Federal Supply, Bureau of Customs, United States Savings Bonds Division, Bureau of Accounts, Bureau of Public Debt, Office of the Treasurer of the United States, and Office of International Finance. The Secretary of the Treasury is ex officio a member of the following boards and committees: Chairman, board of trustees, endowment fund of the American Red Cross; Chairman, Library of Congress Trust Fund Board; Chairman, National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems; Chairman, Contract Settlement Advisory Board; United States Governor of the International Monetary Fund and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Managing Trustee, Board of Trustees of the Federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund; Member, National Park Trust Fund Board; Board of Trustees, Postal Savings System; Board of Directors, Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation; Advisory Board, Export-Import Bank of Washington; Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures; Foreign-Trade Zones Board; National Munitions Control Board; Smithsonian Institution; Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art; National Archives Council; Foreign Service Buildings Commission; National Security Resources Board; Trustee, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. Size of organization: Number of employees, 93,537. Estimated annual expenditures for fiscal year 1949, $795,914,855. In addition, permanent indefinite appropriations of $11,923,307,408 for fiscal year 1949. Position title: Under Secretary of the Treasury. Section of bill: 2 (a). Present salary: $10,330. Date salary established: April 4, 1924, by Public Law 68 of Sixty-eighth Congress. Proposed salary: $20,000. Incumbent: Edward H. Foley, Jr. State: New York. Responsibilities: The Under Secretary of the Treasury assists the Secretary of the Treasury in the administration of the affairs of the Department and participates in the formulation of over-all policies of the Department. He exercises direct supervision over the bureaus and divisions listed below and performs such other duties as may be prescribed by the Secretary. In the absence of the Secretary, the Under Secretary assumes management of the entire Department. (See statement of duties of the Secretary of the Treasury.) The execution of these responsibilities and duties requires that the Under Secretary render decisions regarding the operation of a wide range of activities which include: (1) large industrial activities; (2) tremendous procurement and warehousing enterprise; (3) the regulation and inspection of national banks; (4) law enforcement; (5) a maritime agency which is responsible for aids to navigation, assistance to distressed vessels, and the rescue of shipwreck victims; and (6) the enrollment of agents and attorneys to practice before the Treasury Department. The Under Secretary exercises direct supervision over the following organizational units of the Department: United States Coast Guard, United States Secret Service, Bureau of the Mint, Office of the Chief Coordinator, Treasury Enforcement Agencies, Bureau of Federal Supply, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Bureau of Narcotics, Office of Comptroller of the Currency, Committee on Practice. The Under Secretary serves as the representative of the Secretary of the Treasury or as his alternate on the following committees or boards: National Security Resources Board, Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Foreign Service Buildings Commission, Air Coordinating Committee, Interdepartmental Rubber Committee, Inter-Agency Committee on the Development of Alaska, Shipping Coordinating Committee. In addition, the Under Secretary has been appointed by the President as a member of the Board of Governors of the American National Red Cross and has been designated as its treasurer. Size of organization: Number of employees: Civilian, 16,979; military, 22,856. Position title: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Section of bill: 5 (a). Present salary: $10,330. Date salary established: May 10, 1934, by Public Law 216 of Seventy-third Congress. Proposed salary: $15,000. Incumbent: John S. Graham. State: North Carolina. Responsibilities: The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury assists the Secretary of the Treasury in the administration of the affairs of the Department and participates in the formulation of the policies of the Department. He exercises supervision over the bureau and divisions listed below and, in addition, undertakes such assignments as the Secretary may direct with respect to the administration of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. In the absence of the Secretary and the Under Secretary, the Assistant Secretary serves as Acting Secretary of the Treasury and assumes management of the entire Department. (See statement of duties for the Secretary of the Treasury.) The execution of these duties requires that the Assistant Secretary render decisions regarding the management policies of organizations charged with the responsibility of (1) the collection of the revenue; (2) the survey of tax problems of the Federal Government to devise methods of meeting revenue requirements and to develop methods of adjusting the tax system to changing economic conditions; and (3) the promotion and sale activities relating to United States savings bonds and savings stamps. The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury exercises direct supervision over the following organizational units of the Department: Bureau of Customs, Division of Tax Research, United States Savings Bonds Division. Size of organization: Number of employees, 9,095. Estimated annual expenditures for fiscal year 1949, $54,775,000. Position title: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Section of bill: 5 (a). Date salary established: May 10, 1934, by Public Law 216 of Seventy-third Congress. Proposed salary: $15,000. Incumbent: William McChesney Martin, Jr. State: New York. Responsibilities: The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury assists the Secretary of the Treasury in the administration of the affairs of the Department and participates in the formulation and execution of policies and programs in the international financial and monetary field. He exercises direct supervision over the Office of International Finance and the operations of the United States Exchange Stabilization Fund. In addition, he performs such other duties as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. In the absence of the Secretary, the Under Secretary, and the Senior Assistant Secretary, he serves as Acting Secretary of the Treasury. (See statement for Secretary.) The execution of this responsibility requires that the Assistant Secretary advise the Secretary and render decisions regarding policies, programs, and operations arising in connection with international monetary and financial affairs. These duties include: (1) Serving as the Secretary's alternate on the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems, which has the statutory function of coordinating the policies and operations of United States representatives on the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank, and of United States Government agencies involved in lending or foreign financial, exchange, or monetary transactions; (2) supervision of the administration and |