Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-03

ing this department. 1t was promote tns Dest
business or the country anu 10 give RIoraa
uon wrisn would lead maintenance VI tRs
honesty and stability OF the vast mRenlnery OF our
INDUSTRY and commerce. Inc bureau OF corporations
satners Information the OF the administration
and others to corporations or al kinos. So lar
we have been dealing enieny vita great CORPORA
trusts, and We have Investigated q number
OF them, such oeet trust ana steel trust.
we have about completed our work on the steel
trust"
Il should think such a report would be very
tensive?"
1T is SO. 1t would take several volumes to con-
tain It,"
WIN it have as many words as a big family
Bible?"
Il should say So"
How do you go about investigating trust Of that
kind?"
I'VE have to begin at the bottom. We want nrsl
to know the purpose of the organization, to learn
what its charter gives It the right to do and then md
out whether 1t its business in accordance
with that charter. We want to know all about the
methods OF the organization, pronts and losses,
the and prices the cost of materials and every
thing concerning it. We want to know whether it
has combinations with the railroads by which 1t gets
unfair advantages its competitors, and to know
whether it is in a conspiracy to control or make
prices In the steel trust have had great aid from
the management. The books have all been thrown
open to u.s. and We have been aided in many ways
have had TO deal 1t was not so with the tobacco
trust but the recent decision may make that organ
ization compliant in the future"
What investigations have you hand at pres
eut?"
AT the end OF the last fiscal year the work was
still pending to the investigation OF the lumber,
steel and tobacco industries and also to the Inter-
national Harvester company transportation by water
in United States and the concentration Of water
power industries. Some of this work has been COM
pleted."
Testing Our Weights and Measures.
here asked as to certain other bureaus " the
department and the secretary replied:
1T will be impossible for you to give the details
Of the Department Of Commerce and Labor In single
newspaper letter. Every Of our oces teens with
creative work. Take for instance, the bureau OF
standards, which Is testing weights and measures Of
all kinds. We have made almost $4,000 tests of such
things during the last year and these included
uremens OF for length mass capacity and dem
sity. They embraced measurements OF time, heat
and electricity and Of all OF materials and forces
under the sun All the thermometers in the United
States made after the tests Of this depart
ment. Indeed, the most Of them are sent in to be
tested. II is the same with all for photo
graphic lenses and optical glasses We inspecting
the Ordinary weights and measures used in the various
states and they are being brought up standard.
Two Of inspectors visited eighty-seven cities aud
towns the last year They worked chiefly in the east
covering twenty-seven states and they expect go
over the western states during the coming twelve
months I believe the day will come when all the
weights and measures Of the country will be based
upon the work Of the bureau of standards"
FRANK G. CARPENTER