New-York tribune., 1903-03-29

promote, foster and develop the various manu-
| featuring industries of the United States and
| markets for the same at home and abroad, do
mestic and foreign, by gathering, compiling,
| publishing and supplying all valuable and use
! full information concerning such industries and
such markets as shall best promote the interests
| Of the American manufacturer. There is no
sting in the tail Of this provision, legislation
| to regulate Is threatened by the operation Of
| the Bureau OF Manufactures, might be con-
strued to be the case with that Of corporations.
The participation Of labor in the depart
! ment is believed neither to add to take away
| from the present governmental supervision in
| this branch Of the countrys resources. The
! present Bureau of Labor with its Commissioner
| is transferred to the department without
the addition of a single function the reln-
Quishment of a single right. To bring the
bureau into closer touch with the statistical
work Of the government will, it is believed.
, prove benefit rather than an injury.
Appropriate recognition of the Importance of
the second part of the title Of the new depart
ment was signalzed by President Roosevelt this
week in the selection of E. E. Clark president
! Of the Order Of Railway Conductors and member
! Of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission, as
| Assistant Secretary. with annual salary of
5000.
In order that the new department may best
perform its intended function of a clearing
house for useful information and statistics for
the industrial interests Of the country its force
of workmen must be selected with great care
This task is the present of Secretary Cor
telyou. He is sitting the hundreds of applicants
who are eagerly applying for positions in the
service that he may find men OF initiative
racy and energy.
The statistics which it is Secretary Cortelyou's
intention to give to the country are to be some
h
tions are to be made from them and conclusions
set forth. The bearing of one industry upon
other and the general trend and effect of all are
to be sought out and emphasized
One Of the important economies in the govern
ment work which the department is in
tended to effect is in the matter Of statistics. 1t
was the purpose of Congress to have all of the
statistics necessary in every branch of the ser
vice handled by this department. and it is un-
derstood to be the intention of Secretary Cor
telyou to institute some important reforms In
this work and eliminate duplication.
When the department is fully organized and
the old bureaus taken it will consist OF
fifteen bureaus, with from twelve to fifteen hun
dred employees. and require an annual expendi-
ture OF from $7,OOO,OOO to S10OO0OO0
In order that the department may come close
to the business interests of the country Secre-
tary Corteyou will doubtless spend some time
each year in travelling and coming personally In
touch with the business men Of the country 1t
is his desire to make the Department Of Com
Tnerce and Labor aid In every way and a
hindrance to one: to have 1t a live. up-to-
date. active and energetic governmental function
through which the business interests of the
country may be built up and sustained
A closer relation it is believed, may also be
cultivated between labor and capital through
having the direct of each. with the machin-
cry for ascertainirg the true condition of any
given dispute which may arise In this connec-
ton.
From now until July l. when the new depart
ment VIII be thoroughly organized, Secretary
Cortelyou and Commissioner Garfield will oc-
cury quarters in tie rented Builders Exchange.
to which several Of the bureaus. heretofore at