APPENDIX 2

CLASSIFICATION OF ACTIVITIES

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Classifications of Activities in this series have for their purpose to list and classify in all practicable detail the specific activities engaged in by the several services of the national government. Such statements are of value from a number of standpoints. They furnish, in the first place, the most effective showing that can be made in brief compass of the character of word performed by the service to which they relate. Secondly, they lay the basis for a system of accounting and reporting that will permit the showing of total expenditures classified according to activities. Finally, taken collectively, they make possible the preparation of a general or consolidated statement of the activities of the government as a whole. Such a statement will reveal in detail, not only what the government is doing, but the services in which the work is being performed. For example, one class of activities that would probably appear in such a classification is that of "scientific research." A subhead under this class would be "chemical research." Under this head would appear the specific lines of investigation under way and the services in which they were being prosecuted. It is hardly necessary to point out the value of such information in planning for future work and in considering the problem of the better distribution and coördination of the work of the government. The Institute contemplates attempting such a general listing and classification of the activities of the government upon the completion of the present series.

CLASSIFICATION OF ACTIVITIES

1. Relating to Liquidation of Government Operation of Railroads 1. Certification of standard return

2. Adjustment of claims through boards of referees

3. Reimbursements of deficits of carriers not under govern

ment control

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4. Elimination of discriminations under the fourth section created or increased during government control

5. Calculation of guaranty of income after termination of government control and authorization of advances to

the carriers thereunder

6. Certification of loans to carriers during transition period 2. Activities as a Board of Directors of a National Railroad

System

I. Consolidation of railroads into a limited number of systems 2. Correlation of rail and water routes

3. Pooling of facilities and equipment

4. Division of joint rates

5. Pooling of freights and division of earnings

6. Control of extensions or abandonments of line

7. Maintenance of general railroad contingent fund

3. Maintenance of Reasonable Rates, Facilities, Classification, Practices, etc.

1. Securing Compliance with Standards Prescribed for the Carriers by the Law

1. Transportation and Service

2. Through Routes

3. Charges for Service

4. Classification and Practices

5. Publicity as to rates, fares, charges, etc.

2. Enforcement of Prohibition on the Carriers in the Law

1. Free Passes and Free Transportation

2. Discrimination and Preferences.

3. "Long-and-Short-Haul" and "Aggregate of Intermediates" Clauses

4. Rail and Water Competition

5. Changes in Rates, Fares, Charges, etc.

6. Continuous Carriage of Freight

3. Positive Duties

1. Adequate Transportation Facilities

2. Reasonableness of Rates, Classifications, Practices, etc. 3. Allowances to Owners of Property for Service in Transportation

4. Released Rates

4. Ancillary Activities

1. Valuation of Railroad Property

2. Authorization of Issuance of Securities

3. Accounting

4. Statistics

5. Investigation and Research

5. Promotion of Safety of Employees, Passengers, and Property I. Investigation of accidents and safety appliances

2. Regulation of transportation of explosives and other dangerous substances

3. Enforcement of safety appliance laws and Hours-of-Service Act

4. Inspection of locomotives

5. Administration of Medals-of-Honor Act

6. "By-Product" Activities

I. Clayton Act

2. Railway Mail Pay

3. Merchant Marine Act

4. Miscellaneous

1. Time Zones

2. Prescription of Accounts for District Gas and Electricity Companies

3. Regulations governing Nominations to Railroad Labor

Board

APPENDIX 3

PUBLICATIONS'

The commission is authorized to provide for the publication of its reports and decisions in such form and manner as may be best adapted for public information and use and to "cause to be printed for early distribution its annual reports."

Nearly all of the numerous publications of the commission may be classified according to the activities of which they are manifestations: First, those which result from the administrative duties in relation to the interstate commerce laws, the safety laws, and the Valuation Act; secondly, those which grow out of the judicial or quasi-judicial activities; and finally, those which reflect the quasi-legislative activities.

The publications relating to administrative activities may be grouped in two general divisions, those which are prepared for utilization in the various processes of administration itself, such as the rules and regulations binding upon the carriers in reporting information to the various bureaus of the commission; and those which present the final products and results of such processes of administration, such as the reports of the Bureau of Safety on train accidents, the statistical reports on the carriers, etc.

Publications Utilized in Administrative Processes. These publications subclassified in accordance with the subjects treated are as follows:

Safety Matters. These publications include pamphlets giving rules governing monthly reports of accidents, classification of

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1 All publications listed here may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents. For the price of any one of these documents see Price List 59 Publications of the Interstate Commerce Commission," which is distributed free by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.

safety appliance defects to be reported by inspectors, orders on safety appliance standards, rules and instructions for locomotive boiler inspection, administrative rulings and opinions on the Hours-of-Service Act.

Accounts of Carriers. The publications in this class consist of the following:

1. Pamphlets which give the rules governing classification and prescribe classification and forms for various accounting items for steam railroads, sleeping car companies, pipe lines, and carriers by water.

2. Publications which show the uniform system of accounts prescribed for express companies, electric railways, telephone companies, and telegraph and cable companies.

3. Pamphlets which give interpretation of the accounting classifications embodied in the uniform systems of accounts for telephone companies, carriers by water, express companies, electric railways, and steam railroads.

Statistics. The statistical publications include orders relating to freight commodity statistics, the manner of reporting blocksignal and train-order statistics, rules relating to operating statistics of large steam railroads, rules governing classification of steam railroad employees and their compensation and classification of telephone employees, and classification of train-miles, locomotive miles, and car miles for steam roads.

Tariffs. Regulations and supplements thereto are promulgated and issued governing construction and filing of freight tariffs and classifications and passenger fares, schedules, and administrative rulings.

Valuation. The valuation publications include: Instructions of the Engineering Section of the Division of Valuation for field work of the building branch, the signal branch, and the telephone and telegraph branch in the inventory of property of telephone companies; instructions for field work of the mechanical and electrical sections of the Division of Valuation; orders, instructions and regulations governing the recording and reporting of extensions and improvements or other changes of physical property of carriers; orders relating to schedules of land, etc.