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Show WILL BE ABSORBED BY TRADE MISSION Last Report of Bureau of Corporations Made by Commissioner Davics. WAS'rriNOToN. IV.. Oommls. "buif-r liis.nli i:. Iiuvl.-:i mude to Secretary Secre-tary lUvJrteld ttKJay the lint reixu-t of the bureau of coi'poi a Hoiim. At tli.) clo;,e of Jlewn years' work, it ainui Is to be al'-i.orbid al'-i.orbid by tho new fdt ial trade commission commis-sion which will curry forward its activities activi-ties and develop im v fl-!d according to tho act of conk'rc.-rt which created It. 'omiiilMoi: r j lf a reports that before be-fore t ho hiir Mi It, uliM.rt't d y the nt w federal comn ).-j-on. it p'tnu. to eomrb' ,-nldiiioTiMl and tlriul reports on tolmreo. farm mru ldnery ai'..rL lbhh. Ui.atlon of eorporntlon, (, truht laws and contlicts of i-orpoi a I Ion ub and If a ve ith forcf as f r-i a.-i piemMn for U:e new work of the T-a.i" eononilon. Durinf the last lew niontlu. the report pas. tlie bureau ban Uen nmkltJK a m-n-r-vl -oii.prel;ehhU - suruy .f the whole Industrial n!d with t'ne view of haint linii:f-i!aicly available for the trade oom-n;lbclon oom-n;lbclon the (trnend facts of tho pw.vshrs Of nianuf.ictcro otkh nt.a t Ion nd dominant domi-nant tlnancWil control uf uny line uf In-duftrj'. In-duftrj'. Tlie report this y n r contains a verv coniprehennh-- o:vlw of l h law under whb-h tho trade co'inilrflon will work. The now body. It f-xplatns, will hav. not onlv thohe functions of Invesllcat ion and publicity which the burraw of corporations corpora-tions xrrcNfK, but aleo other functinns of publicity invcMU-atton nnd recotnmen-(hulon recotnmen-(hulon uu powfrs which arc juanl-Judl-clal. w hleh d in li.ffulKh It in n tne rkd manner from the bureau of oirrvnallons. It will hnve much bMMnier discretion nnd will act, when rr.pie-t-d to do o by the courts, ns n,:j.s:.r lu ctiancerv in tho preparation of trust d.-crecn. In lew of t 'lo impending inervrer of the bui eau of . c.-pora t Win with the irad.t com miss! on, .n.mNs;otier I avl.-i makes no rt-comni-Mi latlons as to oodclt a or plans for th future, an 1 In addition to a ; b-iiKthy review of the functions of l h , trudr conmil.-skin, his report Is confined to a revif-w of the year's work in hla bureau bu-reau whh h ben previously dis. loft.-d from time to lime- In jartbil rtorth uim.ii) im cstiRationH at various st.iKeH. |