They are vitally interested in our commercial development. By gathering all these bureaus and departments into one whole. under one head. the department can work to better purpose and more efficiently for the labor interestp. the manufacturing interests. and the commercial interests of this country. I think if Senators will reflect they will see that it is for the interest of the laboring men to belong to a department where they can have something to say on the question of immigration. something to say on the question of shipping and our merchant marine. something to say in reference to the fishing industries. something to say in reference to our manufacturing industries and our manufacturing development. and the things which pertain to our great commerce. foreign and inland. Instead of this being one of the largest departments. as was intimated the other day. I find. on figuring up the employees in the various departments and divisions of the public service. we would be taking 286 employees from the Treasury Department and. assuming that the Patent Office is taken. 605 from the Interior Department. from the State Department. the Bureau of Foreign Commerce. we would take 10. from the Department of Labor we would take 78. from the Fish Commission. 38. and. counting what I have estimated would be necessary in the first instance for the department of commerce as an additional force of 30 members. it would make the total operating force of this new department 1.047.
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