| Show PLEA FOR A SECRETARY OF MINES President Shnffncrs addrefcs on the opening of the Mining congress at 33ulto WHH an able and comprehensive review of tjie public business which the congress deals with It was ytaleHinan llke too In its presentation of the bigness big-ness and the claims of the mining Interests In-terests nnd It Justly urged the need of a representative oC this great Industry In the Cabinet A Secretary of Mines would have a most Important function to perform I and peclally In a capu like thin oC the anthracite coal miners Ktrlkc he could have a high and beneficent benefi-cent function to perform This would b all the more true when Congress enacts en-acts and Is given additional l power to enact legislation covering the case of companies and consolidations which operate In more than one State The history lie gave of the effort to Incorporate In-corporate TL Bureau of Mining In the proposed Department of Commerce and the defeat of that effort in view of the opinion that mining IB too Important to be buried In that manner was most Intel eating The value of the mining products of the country are well over a billion dollars a year and Important questions constantly arIe concerning the administration mid progress of the Industry These questions like the other questions of labor and hualnesa are no longer confined within State boundaries nnd a gennil supervision Is needed Ure are hind that President Shaffner spoke so emphatically and so convincingly l on the need of a Secretary of Mining undxtiust that thp congrc will fully back up his words by a declaration that will be clear and strong l i |
