Show A new cabaret office congressman atler atrick ot of massachusetts chu has a bill for creating a new cabinet office lie ile proposes prop oies to dl divide Ald the duties of the secretary ot of the treasury by creating ft a Department of commerce ills hl bill will be pushed this winter but it Is hardly likely to receive attention during this chort session nevertheless there Is roum much to be S paid ald I 1 in a favor of the new plan As it a general thing thine the people nrc are opposed to creating new offices but there seems to be much reason why there Elio ull be a division of the duties ditties that now loll fail to the secretary of the treasury the title of his office 1 1 I misleading when all ot of the responsibility and work devolving upon him are taken into account the secretary of the treasury it Is true Is the chief financial officer of oc the government but he supervises a great many things besides the treasury who would expect that plans tor for the ahr architecture of all government buildings would be included in the classified work over which the secretary of 0 the treasury has supervision but that Is the cas the exact relation between the inspectors of boilers on steam vessels and the supervision of the governments fl notices Is not very plain but both subjects are under the charge of the secretary of the treasury lie ile has also supora supervision I 1 slon over a treat great engraving establishment he Is at the head of a hospital al service he la Is superintendent of a survey he has charge of many matters affecting navigation on tile the lakes and ocean lie he lias control over the revenue marino marine service and 1 a I gnat many other matters which only by a great stretch of imagination can be classed as proper subjects tor for the consideration of the secretary of the treasury the question of the currency of the tha nation anti aab tile tho management of the government finances would seem to be enough to keep an industrious secretary of the treasury busy all the time lime it Is rather more than secretary O can handle all of the details of the commercial duties now devolving upon the secretary of the treasury might properly be taken out ot of his control and be assigned to a department part ment by itself the department of the interior Is another great un department embracing a large number of odds and ends of government matters that sevin seem to have been thrown there as to a kind hind of crap basket but the secretary of the treasury is a greater man in hll his many functions than even the secretary of the Int eilor probably the time will come coma before long when his duties will be divided so that he may he in reality a secretary or minister of 0 finance and FOMO other official have charge of all the he L commercial Inter interests that now are I 1 lumped oin ped together as a part of the duties of ef the secretary of the treasury syracuse post |