It is almost impossible to keep these departments from absorbing and usurping functions that belong to other Cepartments. They want to do that because they feel that they can extend the powers of the Government. and possibly increase their own prestige and importance. For Instance. here is the Bureau of Education laying out a large plan of general education for the American people. and we find that the Bureau of Naturalization is trying also to Install and erect an educational system particularly adapted to immigrantsa pure duplication of powers. No doubt the scientific activities of the Government are greatly duplicated between the Geological Survey and the Coast and Geodetic Survey. the Bureau of Mines and the Bureau of Standards. There are a great many ways in which the overlapping work should be cut off. and I am not sure but that a distinguished Member of another body was right when he said at least $30.000.000 could be saved annually by giving the President authority to combine and consolidate bureaus and departments in the Federal Government and to rearrange the work between them.
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