CONTENTS

Statement of—

Barnes, Stanley N., Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Anti-

trust Division, Department of Justice, accompanied by William C.

McPike, trial attorney; and Robert A. Bicks, legal assistant___.

Fisher, Edwin L., general counsel, General Accounting Office; ac-

companied by Carl Friend, attorney; and Simmons Savage, Deputy

Director of Civil Accounting and Auditing Division

Roberts, Ralph S., administrative assistant to the Secretary, Depart

ment of Agriculture; accompanied by Ralph F. Koebel, Office of

General Counsel, Department of Agriculture; Max P. Reid, Office

of Personnel, Department of Agriculture; and Fred H. Strong,

Deputy Administrator, Rural Electrification, Department of Agri-

culture_

Young, Hon. Philip, Chairman, United States Civil Service Commis-

sion; accompanied by John W. Macy, executive director; Lawrence

V. Meloy, acting general counsel; Frank Barley, chief, Bureau of

Inspections and Classification Audits; and John W. Steele, chief,

Regulations and Instructions Division, United States Civil Service

Commission

Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by-

Barley, Frank, Chief, Bureau of Inspections and Classification

Audits:

Excerpt from exhibit 1-Specific examples of cases in which cor-

rective action was taken because it was found that excepted

authority to fill expert and consultant positions was used to fill

competitive positions__

Page

107

80

147

3, 44

13, 75

Excerpt from exhibit 2-Specific examples of cases where because

of violations of time limitations or other similar requirements,

the cases were reported to the General Accounting Office 13, 76

Barnes, Stanley N., Assistant Attorney General in charge of the
Antitrust Division, Department of Justice:

Endorsement by the Attorney General of Title 18, United States,
Code, section 284, introduced by Congressman Keating-

118

Excerpt from Defense Production Act.

113, 114

Excerpt from Opinions of the Attorney General:

Volume 37, page 20, 1933.

115

Volume 40, page 294, 1943.

115

Excerpt from statement before the House Antitrust Subcom-
mittee, December 9, 1955

Letter from Stanley N. Barnes to Hon. William L. Dawson, June

4, 1956

Excerpt of letter from Hon. William L. Dawson to the Depart-

ment of Justice_

118

141

Enclosure No. 196074, from the Department of Justice,

March 31, 1954.

143

WOC's and WAE's employed under statutes other than the

Defense Production Act which provide for a "conflict of in-

terest" exemption _ _

110

Dawson, Hon. William L., a Representative in Congress from the

State of Illinois, and chairman, House Government Operations

Committee:

Excerpt from statement of Edwin L. Fisher.

Excerpt from statement of Hon. Philip Young-

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