HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY SEVENTY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 1317 A BILL TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY RELIEF WITH RESPECT APRIL 20 AND 22, 1933 Printed for the use of the Committee on Banking and Currency Hnk 26737 CONTENTS Hon. Royal S. Copeland, a United States Senator from the State of Charles O'Connor Hennessy, president Savings & Loan Bank of the State of New York, 217 Broadway, New York_ Franklin B. Lord, attorney at law, 25 Broadway, New York City D. E. McAvoy, secretary of the Home Mortgage Advisory Board, 35 Horace Russell, general counsel, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Walter S. Schmidt, representing the National Association of Real Henry Woodhouse, 280 Madison Avenue, New York City- HOME OWNERS' LOAN ACT THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1933 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10 o'clock a.m., in room 301, Senate Office Building, Senator Robert J. Bulkley presiding. Present: Senators Bulkley (chairman of the subcommittee), Couzens, and Townsend. Present also: Senator Copeland. Senator BULKLEY (chairman of the subcommittee). This is a hearing on Senate 1317, the home loan relief bill that has been approved by the administration. (The bill S. 1317 is as follows:) [S. 1317, 73d Cong., 1st sess.) A BILL To provide emergency relief with respect to home mortgage indebtedness, to refinance home mortgages, to extend relief to the owners of homes occupied by them and who are unable to amortize their debt elsewhere, to amend the Federal Home Loan Bank Act, to increase the market for obligations of the United States, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933." SEC. 2. As used in this Act DEFINITIONS (a) The term "Board" means the Fedtral Home Loan Bank Board created under the Federal Home Loan Bank Act. 66 (b) The term Corporation means the Home Owners' Loan Corporation created under section 4 of this Act. (c) The term home mortgage means a first mortgage on real estate in fee simple, or on a leasehold under a renewable lease for not less than ninetynine years, upon which there is located a dwelling for not more than three families used by the owner as a home and having a value not exceeding $10,000, and the term "first mortgage" includes such classes of first liens as are commonly given to secure advances on real estate under the laws of the State in which the real estate is located, together with the credit instruments, if any, secured thereby. (d) The term "association" means a Federal Savings and Loan Association chartered by the Board as provided in section 5 of this Act. REPEAL OF DIRECT LOAN PROVISION OF FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK ACT SEC. 3. Subsection (d) of section 4 of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act (providing for direct loans to home owners) is hereby repealed. CREATION OF EMERGENCY LOAN CORPORATION SEC. 4. (a) The Board is hereby authorized and directed to create a Corporation to be known as the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, which shall be an instrumentality of the United States and which shall be under the direction of the Board and operated by it under such bylaws, rules, and regulations as it may prescribe for the accomplishment of the purposes and intent of this act. 1 |