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Guide to the Records of the U.S. House of Representatives at the National Archives, 1789-1989 (Record Group 233)

Chapter 11. Records of the Government Operations Committee and Its Predecessors

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Records of the Government Operations Committee and Its Predecessors, 1814-1988 from Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States

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Committees discussed in this chapter:

• Public Expenditures (1814-80)
• Expenditures in the Navy Department (1816-1927)
• Expenditures in the Post Office Department (1816-1927)
• Expenditures in the Treasury Department (1816-1927)
• Expenditures in the State Department (1816-1927)
• Expenditures in the War Department (1816-1927)
• Expenditures on the Public Buildings (1816-1927)
• Expenditures in the Interior Department (1860-1927)
• Expenditures in the Justice Department (1874-1927)
• Expenditures in the Agriculture Department (1889-1927)
• Expenditures in the Commerce and Labor Departments (1905-13)
• Expenditures in the Commerce Department (1913-27)
• Expenditures in the Labor Department (1913-27)
• Expenditures in the Executive Department (1927-52)
• Government Operations (1952-68)

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Records of the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department (1816-1927)

11.40 The earliest records available for this committee are from the 21st Congress (1829-31).

Record Type	Volume	Dates (Congresses)
Minute Books	4 volumes	1891-95 (52d-53d), 1907-09 (60th), 1915-17 (64th)
Docket Books	7 volumes	1859-61 (36th), 1879-81 (46th), 1889-95 (51st-53d), 1907-90 (60th), 1915-17 (64th)
Petitions and Memorials	1 inch	1839-41 (36th), 1893-95 (53d), 1907-11 (60th-61st)
Committee Papers	2 feet	1829-31 (21st), 1859-61 (36th), 1865-67 (39th), 1875-83 (44th-47th), 1887-89 (50th), 1891-93 (52d), 1895-97 (54th), 1909-27 (61st-69th)
Bill Files	5 inches	1907-09 (60th), 1913-19 (63d-65th), 1923-25 (68th)
Total volume	3 feet and 11 volumes (9 in.)
Committee Records Summary Table

11.41 Petitions and memorials for this committee are sparse. Most of them either oppose closing certain customs offices in 1894 (53A-H10.1) or support legislation in 1908 relating to the appointment of pharmacists in the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service (60A-H10.1).

11.42 The committee papers contain records relating to numerous investigations. They include inquiries into the way the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen was expended (36A-D8.1); the sale of captured and abandoned cotton and other property from 1865 to 1867 (44A-F14.1); the water-proofing process employed in the manufacture of fractional currency (44A-F14.2); the effectiveness of the Secret Service and fraud in the Customs Service in New York City (61A-F18.1); and the management of St. Elizabeths Hospital (68A-F14.1) and the War Risk Insurance Bureau (66A-F14.1, 66A-F14.2). Also included are records created when the committee attempted from 1909 to 1912 to make the Treasury Department more efficient (61A-F18.1, 62A-F13.2, 62A-F13.3).

11.43 Additional information about efforts in 1908 to regulate the appointment of pharmacists in the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service (60A-D7) is found in the bill files. Also included are records concerning efforts in 1918 to determine money due the Government from the States (65A-D5); and attempts in 1924 to determine Government indebtedness and to review income tax returns of Harry F. Sinclair and other associates of his oil company (68A-D9). There are also records relating to hearings held in 1916 to determine how effectively income taxes were being collected (64A-D5).

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Bibliographic note: Web version based on Guide to the Records of the United States House of Representatives at the National Archives, 1789-1989: Bicentennial Edition (Doct. No. 100-245). By Charles E. Schamel, Mary Rephlo, Rodney Ross, David Kepley, Robert W. Coren, and James Gregory Bradsher. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1989.