Speech #760024494

Is there any valid reason why the Coast Guard. which is not a quasijudicial branch of the Government. should be exempted? I served with the gentleman from Missouri on the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments prior to 1932. when I was swept out of Congress by the New Deal tidal wave. He knows that at that time there were presented to the Committee on Expenditures positive facts indicating that great savings could be made by consolidating certain activities of the Coast Guard with certain activities of the Immigration Bureau. certain activities of the Customs Bureau. and certain activities with reference to the enforcement of prohibition. Why does not the gentleman from Missouri support this amendment and allow the President to consider savings which might be made if Coast Guard activities are consolidated with other activities of government? If the President can effect some savings for the taxpayers Treasury by consolidating the Customs Service with other Government activities. he should not be prevented from doing so.