New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-12

OF the Department of Commerce and Labor con-
'ainS the following essential facts and figures:
the zeS G4 year %qs s IS 81 q the dearmsnt
mere We're IN the department 9210 regular po-
bv Law n ness oe lSl2 were specifically authorized
ara I'"2o We're provided for under general
Tb oiatlohs that do not create specific positions
me ne estimates for the department. submitted for
tne tiscai year ending June 90 1906 have been nre
phitu diIe, q most careful consideration Of tho
bureaus offices and services In the aSgregat tber
9r mere was material reduction from The amounts
might wtb i9r me coming year all increases that
service be postponed to a future time '
IN me estimates l have included a provision for
direction Of the secTe}erG for r46eT the mmed
o. trace conditions at home and abroad with The
n nn OF the United States, and for other pur-
nual report vas fTques{ made in the hrst
~ o. the years work concluslvelv demonstrat es
country The groII+b coF on interests of the
materially and Ine oil our fqTegn trade be
sh6l!eG and trained men 10 study and report on
Si T "a, SSondtlons in the great world markets
IA ddltIon to the main purpose the appropriat ton
ntrost alSo Tor other purposes" 1t s of the
pendlture under the immediate direction of the Sec
iU me employment of special agents for the
d9l1GC.Ion ana examination Of the services of the
Apartment On account OF the limitations ybirb
expenqiture Of funds it mpo Wn REFER nee to the
@, IrG 10 promptly meet such emergencies as fire.
BUREAU OF CORPORATIONS.
ceeaeq along the lines indicated in the first annual
The b Ti ea9 qbe s9 T5nd
PuiIIC tho SESSIONS lot the purpose of ascertanng
tu'g those constitutional powers and restrctionS
on which present conditions are based and also
ttttose Whlch must be necessarily involved in anv
legal CORPORATE conditions 'ei-e'' o1 present
in aVaabP qF n Of ascertaining and presenting
variio,IS business is being carried on in the
bdlIQus states material obtained from thirty States
StS been compiled and tabulated In each of these
oasfS; with regard to all the more important cor
the or 5oreign commerce, typical either of
document filed or Tec0rda S Avs every paper or
porauon was examined separately and All informa-
oqn relating to each corporation disclosed by the
Tlcia records has been collected and comy9,Ie ED
me IeIe nave been thus far examined and abstracted
biob ecEIIs or over fifteen hundred corporations
porfa5t HGidde the larger part of the more i'm
in the f"nf+ GIIPales ana corporate combinations
sI,stor posslDe information concerning the various
n0ssitIS ~ o. corporate taxation in use; whenever
io or returns Of the more important corpora
complete list Of u t there has been obtained
70 90 business in the particular State this record
Of earBS the name. capital stock and home State
VI GaCR corporation. This record furnishes a con-
ceeiI ceW 10 corporations engaged in interstate
commerce. The material collected from TWEEN
ly IZ states on this subject is as follows:
h IrStmA bstracts of the records of specific domes-
acknowledgements of the records of specific for
=, Ihird-List of foreign corporations admitted to
the state 10 do business
Fourth-Oficial forms OF all corporate documents
required or permitted to be filed.
F1fth-Transcrpts of all records or returns used
typical originals
There is now ready for publication a compilation
OF the federal and State statutes dealing with ile-
gal industrial combnations-the so-caled antitrust
laws. This will afford complete information of
such laws. showing in tabular and condensed form
f6e as TO pG Teaely avaple ana easily comparable
and digest and discussion of cases involving the
straint of trade
INSURANCE RATES.
The compilation on a uniform outline of insur-
alce laws has been undertaken and completed in
with the Insurance officials ali st,stvs,
Its agents have conferred with representati of
large number Of insurance companies officers OF
boards of underwriters and insurance agents for
the purpose of obtaining the best information pos
sibe upon both the legal and the business side OF
Federal control or regulation of insurance raises
at the outset the question whether Insurance in
cisions of the Supreme Court of the United States
have established tho legal proposition that fire life
the court are not Interstate commerce If this
proposition be irrevocably settled. the powers of
the Commissioner of Corporations in reference to
insurance are merely TO collect and compile such
furnished 10 him 1t would be useless to simply
duplicate the statistics already obtained by various
For the purpose of laying the foundation upon
can be intellgenty conducted, the bureau has com
piled, from sources other than the corporations
tain leading Combinations From CAREFUL annly-
sis Of this material it has been possible form
financial practices and effects of combinations in
general. and determine the lines OF further spe
cial inquiry. On the basis of this general study
preliminary outlines Of inquiries to be addressed d
The results Of the investigation Of the beef IN
dustry. authorized by resolution Of Congress- will
be made the subject Of a special report
BUREAU OF LABOR
The Commissioner Of Labor reports that the
bureau has been engaged in the collection Of
and in the preparation OF that report. The annual
report for 1903 related to the cost of living Of work
ingmens families and the retail prices Of staple
articles of food used by such families. The report
alIied-that of rates of wages and hours Of labor
and IS the result of an extensive investigation
Industries the United States covering the period
from 1890 to 1903 inclusive.
The investigation relating to this subject de-
signed to thoroughly the principal distinctive
occupations in the leading Industries belonging
country, with view to securing data which should
be entirely representative of conditions and show
the trend of wages and hours Of labor during the
Work viii shortly be begun on the collection Of
States which Will form the basis OF the annual
report for 1905 The sixteenth annual report, pub
isRed in 1901 brought the relating to strikes
and lockouts down to and lncluding me year 1%N
expected that the report for 1890 Will cover the
period from 1901 TO 1905.
The special census reports in progress comprised
INQUIRIES concerning wealth, debt and taxation in
dependent and delinquent classes, annual mortality.
ions in cities electrical industries and cotton
statistics. Preparation has been MADE Tor the
featuring census or 1910
BUREAU OF STATISTICS.
The foreign commerce of the United States.
to4si t6an in anv earlier year. While the exports
we're surpassed by those of single year. 1901 and
gle Year 1893 the aggregate Imports and exports
for the year is greater than that Of any preceding
OF the wear were 1891 81, and the exports ST. 400
272 making the total Ioresn te o9 7 9t Inc