We have had commissions which have been of great service not only to ourselves in the transaction of current business. but als6 of general and permanent service to all economists and student of political affairs. I take for an illustrious example the subcommittee of the Committee on Finance. that branch or section from the Finance Committee which went to work to ascertain the prices of material. the figures relating to labor. and all that. and which compiled in a nonpartisan way those very admirable volumes. consisting of the evidence of experts and the conclusions derived from their own study. and made a report which was accepted on both sides of this Chamber during the hottest discussion of the tariff and of financial questions. the currency. as a standard work. That is the kind of commission I should like to see organized upon this question. and not a sort of harumscarum affair. each subdivision to take up for itself this remarkable range of subjects. "questions pertaining to immigration. to labor. to agriculture. to manufacturing. and to business. and to report to Congress and to suggest such legislation as it may deem best upon these subjects." That is about all there is of the material interests of the countryagriculture. manufacturing. and business. and it is proposed that this commission shall cover this whole ground and make any suggestions they please. I say the old way is the better way. a commission composed of members of Congress. and then a distinct commission of persons taken from private life. made up with whatever motives you please. according to the best judgment of the President.
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