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A meeting of the executive committee of the Federal Open Mar
ket Committee was held in the offices of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System in Washington on Tuesday, June 10, 1941, at
10:00 a.m.
PRESENT:

Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.

Eccles, Chairman
Sproul, Vice Chairman
Ransom
McKee

Mr. Leach
Mr. Morrill, Secretary
Mr. Carpenter, Assistant Secretary
Mr. Wyatt, General Counsel
Mr. Goldenweiser, Economist
Mr. Williams, Associate Economist
Mr. Dreibelbis, Assistant General Counsel
Mr. Rouse, Manager of the System Open
Market Account
Messrs. Szymczak, Draper, Fleming, Davis,
and Peyton, Members of the Federal Open
Market Committee
Messrs. Roy A. Young, Sinclair, C, S. Young,
and Gilbert, Alternate Members of the
Federal Open Market Committee
Messrs. McLarin and Day, Presidents of the
Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and San
Francisco, respectively, and Mr. Leedy,
First Vice President of the Federal Re

serve Bank of Kansas City
Mr. Clayton, Assistant to the Chairman of the
Board of Governors
Mr. Sienkiewicz, Secretary of the Conference
of Presidents
Mr. Alfred H. Williams, Class C Director
(President-elect) of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Philadelphia

6/10/41
Upon motion duly made and seconded,
and by unanimous vote, the minutes of the
meeting of the executive committee of the
Federal Open Market Committee held on March
17, 1941, were approved.
Upon motion duly made and seconded and
by unanimous vote, the transactions in the
System open market account during the period
from March 17 to June 9, 1941, both dates
inclusive, were approved, ratified, and con
firmed.

Reference was made to the consideration which had been given
by the members of the executive committee,

and members of the staff,

of the Federal Open Market Committee since the last meeting of the

executive committee to the question of suggestions as to changes in
Treasury financing procedure and it

was decided to defer further dis

cussion of this matter until the meeting of the full Committee.
Thereupon the meeting recessed to reconvene following the
meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee.

Secretary.

Approved:

Chairman.