Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-11
DEPT. OF COMMERCE
Transfers to Take Place on
July l.
FOREIGN STATISTICS
TO BE EDITED BY EX-CoNSUL
MONAGHAN.
Secretary Cortelyou Plans to Console
date Two Disbursing Offices
New Seal Adopted.
FOREIGN STATISTICS

On the 1St OF July the bureau VI loIeiSh
commerce of the Department OF State,
which has charge of the collection, publica-
ton and distribution of the commercial re-
ports of consular officers, will be trans
ferred to the Department Of Commerce and
Labor and consolidated with the bureau
of statistics, which is to be transferred
from the treasury to the new department
The collection of the reports will be made
through the consular officers, under the
direction of the Secretary Of State, through
whom the reports will be transmitted to the
Secretary of Commerce and Labor. The
two departments are expected to work IN
harmonious cooperation, as the functions
of each are clearly defined and there Is fulf
agreement between them. Mr.. James G.
Monaghan, who has been chosen by Secre-
tary Cortelyou to edit the reports under the
supervision of Mr.. Austin, chief of the bu-
reau of statistics, is a professor In the
commercial department of the University
of Wisconsin, and was consul at Mannheim,
Germany, from June II, 1885, to March "a,
1880, and at the important industrial center
of Saxony-ChemnitZ-fr May 8, 1898, TO
March 81. 1900 SO that he has had excep-
tional experience in consular work While
consul at Chemnitz he was a frequent con-
tributor to consular reports on great
variety Of subjects, and wrote valuable
series of articles on the technical and trade
schools of Germany.
1t is to be assumed. therefore. that the er-
ficiency and celebrity attained by the State
Department in the publication of CONNER
cial Information from abroad will not only
be fully maintained by him, but the value
of the publication will be enhanced because
of the greater variety of Information OBJ
tanned by the consolidated bureaus
Bureau of Trade Relations.
Mr.. Frederic Emory, who, since April.
1894, has had charge of this and other
branches of the work as chief of the bureau
of foreign commerce (known until July l.,
1897, the bureau of statstics), will re-
main in the State Department as chief of
the new bureau of that department TO be
created July l, under section II of the De-
partment of Commerce act, which provides
that a person with the rank of chief Of
bureau shall be designated by the Secretary
of State Ito formulate under his direction,
for the instruction of consular officers the
requests of the Secretary of Commerce and
Labor; and to prepare from the dispatches
of consular officers, for transmission to the
Secretary of Commerce and Labor, such in
format ton as pertains to the work Of the
Department of Commerce and Labor" Be-
sides these functions the new bureau of the
State Department, which is to be known as
the bureau Of trade relations, will have
other duties such the collection and
transmission of consular reports on special
subjects, other than commercial, for vari-
Gus branches OF the government service
and the compiling of information for the
use of the Department of State in the con-
sideration of questions arising in our for
eign intercourse.
To Consolidate Disbursing Offices.
Secretary Cortelyou has determined to
consolidate the office of disbursing clerk.
Department of Labor with the disbursing
Office of the Department of Commerce and
Labor from July 1 next when the Depart
ment of Labor Will become a bureau of
the new department. This course will
simplify the work of accounting to the
officers of the treasury, as the disburse-
rnents On account Of the Department Of
Labor will be included in the accounts of
the disbursing officer of the Department of
Commerce and Labor, doing away with
one set OF accounts In the Secretary's Of
flee, the auditors Office, the treasury in
Washington and the subtreasury in New
York The services OF the disbursing clerk
of the Department of Labor will be re-
quired in connection with the examination
of the vouchers for expenditures in that
depaI tnent, before they are sent to the
Secretarys Office for audit and payment
The commission Cf statistical work re-
Gently appointed by Secretary Cortelyou
has unanimously recommended that the
statistics of cities of 5000 population and
over, aut thOTized to be collected by the De-
partment of Labor under an act of Con-
gress approved July l, 1898, be transferred
to the census office as early after July 1
next as pCGSl le
Secretary Cortelyou has approved this
recommendation ard has announced his
intention to issue order in accordance
Herewith on or about the 1st of July.
The New Seal.
Section 1 of the act approved February
II. 1903, establishing the Department of
Commerce and Labor provides that the
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Shall
cause seal of office to be made for the
said department OF such device as the
President shall approve" After careful
consideration of many designs. the follow
ing has been recommended by Secretary
Cortelyou and approved by the President: