New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-12-24
FOR NEW DEPARTMENT.
COMMERCE. md LABOR.
Bureaus Of Corporations and In
sityance Proposed.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE rR1BuNE.I

BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBuSE-J
Washington, Dec. 23-The bill providing FOR
the establishment of a Department OF Coih-
merce and Labor, which favorably reported
to the House just before adjournment, diners
materially from the corresponding Senate DILL
Representative Mann, of Illinois, who is prepar-
ing the report on this measure. outlined the oil
ferences this evening. follows:
The House bill provides for bureau of cor
porations and bureau of insurance. and leaves
out the Offices of the Commissioner of NaVlga-
ton, Steamboat Inspection. the Lifesav1ng SER
vice and the Shipping Commissioner Inc most
important change, in Mr.. Manns estimation, Is
the creation of the bureau of corporations
While the bill vaguely outlines the duties of
this bureau it is believed that it can be made
of the utmost service to Congress in compiling
and presenting in convenient form data relative
to corporations, suggesting practical and de-
sirable legislation, and possibly in pointing out
the impracticability of proposed legislation
which affects the business interests of the coun-
try. The committee believes that the creation
of this bureau will afford the President an OPP
portunity to install as it's chief man who Is IN
sympathy with his views on the trust question
and who would. in the event that trust lesls-
lation other than mere statutory amendment is
enacted. be in position to carry 1t into opera
ton. The creation of this bureau would be
providing for publicity of trust statistics.
The Bureau of Insurance will, in the opinion
of the committee. provide the means of super
vision over vast industry of which the gov
eminent has heretofore taken no official cog
nizance Such a bureau can be made directive
In much the same way outlined for the bureau
of corporations, and may prove the means OIL
diminishing the frauds practised by I'M
trustworthy and dishonest insurance companies
Those bureaus of the government which the
Senate bill provides shall be transferred to the
new department have been found. on invest1ga-
ton, to be so clearly correlated to the work
of the departments to which they now at
tached as to make their removal impracticable.
Replying to a question to the alleged OPP
position of labor organizations to the incorpora-
ton of the Department of Labor in the proposed
new department. Mr.. Mann said he believed that
where such opposition existed it was due to a
lack of appreciation of the facts. The Depart
ment of Labor was department in name only
it had no representative at the Cabinet table
AS bureau of the new department it would
be represented among the Presidents advisers
by the head of the department.. who would nat
urally further its interests because of his nat
ural desire to see his department make progress.
and because he would come into closer touch
with the representatives of labor than does any
Cabinet officer with the existing departments
1t was the judgment of the committee that $50
lated bureaus never prospered to the same eH-
tent as those incorporated into one OF the large
executive departments. With Bureau 81
Labor under a Secretary of Commerce and
Labor, the labor interests would find their needs
brought more prominently before the president
Congress and the country than Is possible uruer
the existing arrangement
further provision of the bill authorizes the
President to transfer to the Department oI
Commerce and Labor any office, bureau. division
or other branch of the public service engaged
in statistical scientific work this clause oelng
inserted because IL Is believed that in time II
will be found practicable to segregate ana ad-
visabe to attach to this department certain
bureaus the transfer of which at this time Is not
deemed advisab