Bisbee daily review., 1912-01-03
MESSAGE OF hAGEL
 IS ON COMBINATIONS
Head ot Department of Labor Sends Annual Report
 to Congress

l.Dis lAIO O number or separate parts by no means meets the whole trust question:, says Secretary Nagel, of tie departmS nt of commerce and la bor. in his annual report transmitted today to President Taft.
 Secretary Nagoi declares that tine Sherman iaE has been proved to be an effective statute beyond al doubt, and that a degree of combination of oapinil is quite necessary, but he adds that the supreme court decisions in the Standard Cil and Tobacco eases have demonstrate that the next step in the control of great in. dustrial combinations will be the creation oi a permanent fedora! agen. cy.
 How such control shall De exerted cised. whether by commission. fed eral incorporation or other means, which have been advocated recently by Judge B.b1tt II. Gary, George w.. Perkins and other fnanciers before the senate committee, which has been 15-cting hearings to determine aEa thanges would be desirable in tLe rust 3aWs. Secretary Nagel do=s a.t definitely say. He favors, L4rctef, development of the powers end scope of the bureau of corporations.
 "A certain degree of combination of capital is admittedly essential to < tine carrying on of our great business enterprises" says Secretary Nagei. ITO control properly such necessary combinations, we must have some af- Ininisttatiyo federal office or con- mission which shall make this work its business.
 We must have 8 permanent au- thoEity which shall, by steady and ccntinlous supervision and publicity safegrard the public interests, and at the same time allow full scope for necessary and proper business e.- ficiency ana developments
 "Fhe decisions of the supreme court in the Standard Oil and Ameri' can Tobacco company eases have brought fcfcibly to the public atten- ton fact repeatedly presented h the reports of this dePnTt 1tSpT--t n- imperative need for the positive Gd- ministrative regulation Of great in' dustrial corporations.
 "The recent decisions and re-or' Eanizatlons which have followed have made it clear that another impeTa. tive step remains to De taken, and that is the establishment, by apPgC priate Legislation, oI a broad susteIl Of supervision and publicity for all those industrial and commercial or sauizaJions engaged in interstate anc international business.
 whether this shall be done by means Of federal incorporation or Ds a federal office or commission eN ercising powers Of regulation and su uervision may be a secondary qaes ton. The first consideration appears to the establishment uf permauvn administrative pubiicity. regulation anG supervision. The time is pecu harIy ripe for such action. Publlt opinion and the views of many cor porstion managers are as One.'
 Eecretlry NageI recommends tha the bureau Of corporations be dc yeioped to take up the form or su pervision be suggests. It would b but a logical expansion Of the b. reau's operations and policy, whicl hs says have relied so,a!y on put Iicity for the last eight years. ant have demonstrated beyond question what system of permanent super vision can do.
 MT. -Nss1Ct AG 4ffs a AI -eiAA hA~tA4 with the years work ip the many br reaus and divisions over which b presides.
 h connection with the immigTatioi service, the secretary recommend that any amendments to the imin grafton laws tend to relieve imm gr1nts of undue hardship withcu lettinE down the bars against undo phr be lodged with officials, he thinki 10 admit unfortunate members of il coming families. where it is show that society would he protecte against burden and danger. F rec. se-- --~a +'r' e~aminatio of isntllss, ysiore the embark for this country, and tha trs t'rrs for deporting confesse cHFBa4ls be extended.
 E-5lry Nagel refers in passin 10 re.c1t criticism of the immigr; t.Un srvics. He says the burea Eas sn avored to obey the gener; mandate of the law and relieve tn individual of hsrdship wherever th gtatute allows it.
 "Ta the meantime, Lincola's advic finds renewed application says th secretary, g4otlAA tHS "SiuSs
 both factions, CT neither, shall abus ,cu. yGu will probably be ab0I right. Beware of being assailed 2 one and praised by the ether"
 one of the greatest operations the year in Secretary Nsgels d pa-tsf=yilt =@4s tine completion of th Thirteenth census
 A very important investigation c the cost UG living is now being @ ried on by the bureau Of labor. I'll report promises 10 provide 2 basis f fnteliigent discussion Of this muS ucoted question says tae seoretar