Speech #570004532

It was afterwards vested in the War Department. and the War Department. until the Department of the Interior was established. in 1849. continued to have charge of the Pension Bureau. If you look at the history of the departments you will thus see that the Interior Department. established in 1849. was established simply by a transfer from the other overloaded departments of the Government. bureaus. and divisions. and the part so transferred constituted the main and principal work of that Department. � The congestion which had then occurred in the other departments leading to the establishment of the then new Department of the Interior exists now to a greater extent. especially in the Treasury Department. It seems that of later years almost everything new under the sun in refercnce to lighthouses. the MarineHospital Service. and a lot of matters pertaining to commerce and navigation and immigration have been thrown into the Treasury Department. when as a matter of fact they did not pertain to the main and principal functions of that Department. Mr. President.