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Show : t: vc .t: : : t i.'.r.iLv i j f.r th; ; As cf cur : - " f : 1 : . :. lu: :u cl L. . j I , i j . I. . grov.n to tzch rr. . ; . 1 I . : . I V. ? c :- trcUf tL3 izJiviJ il Liio, it hiicI.ovtJ tL-t it3 c.-2n!zat!;a Ill result in a prcatcr uniformity cf building laws ; zl c:Y.zzz: . -, ..- I in tiu:3 v, 111 prevent the enorr. dus waste cow fuITere-J annually by re. Groat int . rest center s in th3 Lurcaa cf corporations, cor-porations, as it u the announced intention of the President to make this bureau the vehicle for carrying carry-ing out the providers of any future laws which may be enacted looking toward the control of trusts and combinations. It is a pity that the heads of the various executive departments were permitted to dump many of. their undesirable and useless bureaus bu-reaus upon ' the new branch, but even with this raossback assortment cf red tape to handicap it, the Department of Commerce and Labor should do great things for commerce and labor under the direction di-rection of George B. Cortelyou. OUR. NEW EXECUTIVE BRANCH, i ' ' ' ...... . . ,. While it is, weighed down with a job-lot assortment assort-ment of castoff and useless bureaus, probably no executive branch of the Government will be so intimately in-timately attached to the business life of the Nation as'vrill be the Department of Commerce and Labor. ' Its Cecretary will be the direct representative of the manufacturing interests of the Nation, and it is expected ex-pected to have as great influence on the industiial growth of the Nation as has had the Interior department depart-ment on the rapid settlement of the countrr, and the Agricultural department on the interests which it I Jrves. The bill establishing the Department oi Commerce, which was passed by the Senate and Tic use, transfers to the proposed new department the bureau of commerce from the State department; the life-saving service, the . lighthouse board, the li-hthouse service, the marine hospital, the steamboat steam-boat inspection service, the bureau, of navigation, tl e United States shipping commissioners, the bureau bu-reau of immigration and the bureau of statistics from the" Treasury department; the census office from the Interior department; the independent de-r-rtments cf labor; the odce of commissioner of ' and fisheries; the lighthouse service, the n-wly-c -nnized bureau of standards, the coast and geo-r. geo-r. tic survey, the bureau of statistics, and various 1 er I" aus. The greatest importance in the new ! "s..w however, lies in the three new bureaus ' di e to included in this department by the House . -r-e The bureau of manufactures, of insur-1 insur-1 t1 o bureau of corporations. Oa the bureau l; - "V-rclj v. ill devolve the duty of fostering, l C relopitg the. various masufic- |