Evening star., 1903-07-01
THE NEW DEPARTMENT
Interesting Ceremony Held
This Morning.
ITS FORMAL FORMATION
SECRETARY CoRTELYoU MAKES
A HAPPY ADDRESS.
Remarks Made by Secretary Moody,
Commissioner Macfarland, Director
North and Others.

those 0ffc1alS acting as such, the heads or
the several transferred bureaus and vari-
Gus officials of his own office, to meet at
his office in the Willard building at IL
o'clock this morning and participate in a
brief ceremony.
Those present were Secretary Moody,
Acting Secretary Loomis of the State De-
partment, Acting Secretary Taylor of the
Treasury Department, Acting Secretary
Sanger of the War Department, Acting At
torney General Day of the Department of
Justice Acting Secretary Brigham of the
Department of Agriculture, Commissioner
Macfarland, Rev. DR.. Franklin Noble, Dr.
D. j. Stafford, G.. w. w. Hanger of the bu-
reau of labor, Admiral Remey of the light
house board, S. N D. North of the census
office, o. H Tittman of the coast and geo
detic survey. o. P. Austin of the bureau of
statistics, George Uhler of the steamboat
inspection service, George M. Bowers of the
fish commission, E. T. Chamberlain of the
bureau of navigation, F. P. Sargent of the
bureau of immigration, S. w. Strattan of
the bureau of standards, Commissioner
Garfield of the bureau of corporations, So
licitor Collier Chief Clerk Hitchcock and
other officials of Secretary Cortelyou's- Of
flee.
Rev DR.. Franklin Noble of Falls Church.
Va. an old friend and former pastor OF
by reading a few passages from Scripture
by reading few passages from scripture
and delivering an invocation.
Secretary Corte1you's Address.
Secretary Cortelyou then spoke as fol-
lows:
The act creating the Department of Com
merce and Labor was approved by Pres
ident Roosevelt February A. 1903. Two
days later the first secretary of the de-
partment was nominated and confirmed.
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corner of the staff room of the executive
office of the White house. its first material
holdings a desk and two chairs all three
borrowed On March II 1t moved into
larger temporary quarters at 719 18th
street northwest, occupying the rear half
of the second floor of that building, and
from the latter place, its executive offices,
with such organization and equipment as
were possible during the brief period of
it's existence, were on June 16, 1908 moved
to 513 14th street northwest. known as the
Willard building, their present site
On February 16 the entire personnel,
strictly speaking. consisted of one official
the secretary. few days later another
official was added in the person Of the
commissioner of corporations Today in
the city of Washington owing principally
to the transfers now made, the personnel
consists of 1889 persons, and in the coun-
try at large of S,S36 persons. This latter
number will be very considerably increased
at certain PERIODS each year, notably IN
the light house service.
In the initial days of the department the
expenditures were principally the salary
accounts of two officials; today the ex-
penditures for which appropriations have
been made are approximately 50, I06 S47
which large amount will be later augment
ed by such additional appropriations as
Congress may see fit to make to defray
necessary and legitimate expenses for
which there is at present no adequate pro-
vision.
To the cordial cooperation Of the several
departments from which the transferred
bureaus have come is due much of the pro-
gress thus far made. and | acknowledge
also in no perfunctory spirit, the faithful,
unwavering assistance given me by the
members of my immediate staff.
We have intrusted to our hands a great
undertaking. l do not intend to enlarge
upon it's Importance both to the federal
government and to the people at large.
What we have planned We shall now try
to advance and perfect in the larger field
that today opens before US, and we shall
confidently expect to have the loyal and
devoted support of the chiefs of the vari-
Gus bureaus and of the entire personnel.
AS appropriately finding place in our ex-
ercises, l read these extracts from letter
Marquis de Lafayette, expressing his views
as to the new federal constitution, and
written in the year 1883:
Meeting General Hamilton at the house
VI u
l asked him what provision was going to
be made for the navy when Congress came
to enact laws for the structure of the
executive branch as provided in the Con-
stitution. The general told me it was prac
tically agreed in Congress that, when that
time should arrive, they would create four
ministries: that of Foreign Affairs, that of
Finance that of War and that of Justice.
And he said it was good, for the present
at least, to merge the concerns or the navy
in the Ministry of War
ITO this l at once ventured protest
The situation of our country is such
that the growth of its navy cannot long be
deferred;
and il is upon the sea, rather than on the
land, that we must in future meet the
nations of the Old World on equal terms
logic of events will compel the country to
create a separate Ministry of Marine. .
Had 1 the power 1 would create at
least seven ministries in the primary or
ganization of government under the Con-
stitution. In addition to the four already
agreed upon, l would ordain Ministry Of
Marine. a Ministry of Home Affairs and a
General Post Office; and as commerce must
be our great reliance, it would not be amiss
to create also, as the eighth, Ministry
of Commerce"
The entire cabinet of today Is embraced
in this statement, for agriculture was for
time under the Ministry of Home
Affairs.
The New Department.
And, gentlemen, we have now, not the
eighth-under which are appropriately rep
resented our great agricultural interests
but the ninth. the Ministry of Commerce.
and coupled with 1t the Ministry of Labor
In this connection, l am glad to repeat
what have stated elsewhere:
TO foster promote and develop the
foreign and domestic commerce, the min
ing. manufacturing, shipping and fishery
industries, the labor interests and the
transportation facilities of the United
States These are defined to be the prov
ince and duty of the new Department OF
Commerce and Labor. This is scope at
once important and far-reaching Substan-
tial results are expected from the legisla-
ton creating the department. / am sure
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