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s, voluminous and involving a great amount of labor, were prepared in the same offices and always corresponded with each other, and the check in the Land Office amounted to nothing.95 As part of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriations Bill for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, passed and approved on March 2, 1895, the reform provided that "duplication of reports and returns of registers and receivers to the General Land Office shall be prevented by such regulations as the Com13 H. R. REP. No. 1908, 4-6. 94H. R. REP. No. 2000, 11. 95H. R. REP. No. 1652, 10. 446 This content downloaded from 207.46.13.115 on Sat, 08 Oct 2016 05:25:33 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms THE DOCKERY-COCKRELL COMMISSION, 1893-1895 missioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, may make." 96 A number of recommendations, to be effected by departmental regulations, dealt with internal reorganization. The experts urged that the Pre-emption and Private Land Claims Divisions be consolidated as a Miscellaneous Land Claims Division, and that the Railroad and Swamp Lands Divisions be merged as the Land Grants Division. Finding that personnel of particular divisions were scattered throughout many floors in the same buildings, they recommended that "those employed in each division be located on the same floor in reasonably close proximity to each other." 97 Reorganization. Recommendations by the Commission involving the transfer of agencies and functions from one department to another were few in number. The experts neither developed nor followed any principles of governmental reorganization, as the twentieth century investigating commissions have done. The Commission urged that the Government's public survey functions be separated according to land and water, and that the former be handled by the Department of the Interior, the latter by the Navy Department. Other than minor internal consolidations of several divisions in the General Land Office and the abolition of several offices in the Treasury Department, this was the extent of the reorganization recommended by the |
