Motion Picture Commission
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Excerpt from Motion Picture Commission: Hearings Before the Committee on Education, House of Representatives, Sixty-Third Congress, Second Session, on Bills to Establish a Federal Motion Picture Commission The committee met at 10.30 o´clock a.m., Hon. Dudley M. Hughes (chairman) presiding. Present also: Mr. Doughton, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Baker, Mr. Clancy, Mr. Platt, Mr. Treadway, Mr. Fess, and Mr. Rupley. The Chairman. Gentlemen, the committee will come to order. I wish to say that this is a bill "To create a new division of the Bureau of Education to he known as the Federal Motion Picture Commission, and defining its powers and duties." We will be pleased to hear from Mr. Crafts. Statement Of Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, Superintendent And Treasurer Of The International Reform Bureau. Mr. Crafts. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I think I will read the bill, as some of the members of the committee may not have read it, although it will go into your record. The Chairman. All of the members have the bill before them. [H. R. 14805, Sixty-third Congress, second session.] A Bill To create a new division of the Bureau of Education to be known as the Federal motion picture commission, and defining its powers and duties. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a Federal motion picture commission be, and the same is hereby, created, to be composed of five commissioners appointed by the President, not more that three of whom shall be of the same political party. The commission shall be a division of the Bureau of Education. Sec. 2. That each commissioner shall hold office for six years, except that when the commission is first constituted two commissioners shall be appointed for two years, two for four years, and one for six years. Each commissioner shall thereafter be appointed for a full term of six years. Vacancies shall be filled in same manner as the original appointment. The salary of the chairman shall be $3,500 a year, and of each other commissioner, $3,000 a year. Sec. 3. That the commission shall elect a secretary, whose salary shall be $1,500 per annum. The commission may appoint inspectors and fix the compensation of each, provided that in no case the compensation of an inspector shall be more than $5 per day exclusive of traveling expenses. Actual and necessary traveling expenses shall be allowed to those who travel on the business of the commission. Sec. 4. That the commission shall license every film submitted to it and intended for entrance into interstate commerce, unless it finds that such film is obscene, indecent, immoral, or depicts a bull fight or a prize fight, or is of such a character that its exhibition would tend to corrupt the morals of children or adults or incite to crime. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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