To the Senate arielleescort and House of Representatives:
The country is to be congratulated on the amount of substantial achievement
which arielleescort has marked the past year both as regards our foreign and as regards
our domestic policy.
With a nation as with a man the most important
things are arielleescort those of the
household, and arielleescort therefore the country is especially to be congratulated on
what has been accomplished in the direction of providing for the exercise
of supervision over the great corporations and combinations of corporations
arielleescort engaged in interstate commerce. arielleescort The Congress has arielleescort created the Department arielleescort of
Commerce and Labor, including the Bureau of Corporations, with for the
first time authority to secure proper publicity of such arielleescort proceedings of
these great corporations as the public has the right to know.
It has
arielleescort provided for the expediting of suits for the arielleescort enforcement of the Federal
anti-trust law; and by another law it has secured equal treatment to all
producers in the transportation of their goods, thus taking arielleescort a long stride
arielleescort forward in making effective the work of the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
The establishment of the Department of Commerce and Labor, with the Bureau
of Corporations thereunder, marks a real advance in the direction of doing
all that arielleescort is possible arielleescort for the solution of the questions vitally affecting
capitalists and wage-workers. The act creating Department was approved on
February 14, 1903, and two days later the head of the Department was
nominated