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52 Pol. Sci. Q. 1 (1937)

handle is hein.journals/pclscceqry52 and id is 1 raw text is: March 1937 Volume LII] POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY THE INDEPENDENT REGULATORY COMMISSIONS OF the recommendations made by the President's Com- mittee on Administrative Management,' the most con- troverted and the most difficult to implement relates to the Independent Regulatory Commissions. It was, as well, the least expected, and to many will be the most interesting, recommendation. Proposals to extend the merit system and establish a career service have long been commonplaces to those who desire better government . Before the Report was published there was doubt only as to how far the Committee would go in urg- ing that the merit system be extended upward, outward, and downward and as to the precise method of recruiting for and protecting careers . On the first matter even the reformers will not say that the recommendation should have reached farther. On the second matter the Committee is not precise. Generally expected also was the proposal to increase the number of cabinet departments and to make them homes for most of the independent agencies which Congress and the President have proliferated around Washington. Several score of such agencies have been on the loose too long. Con- cerning the Comptroller General of the United States, there was some doubt as to the severity of the language that the Committee would use in recommending that he be denuded of the powers which fifteen years ago an unaware Congress conferred upon him, and which the first incumbent of the office 1 Message of the President of the United States transmitting a Report on Reorganization of the Executive Departments of the Government. January 12, 1937. Senate Document No. 8, 75th Congress, ist Session. I [Yumber z

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