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admitted Affairs Agent Agriculture appointed Assistant attaché attorney Avenue born Building BUREAU chairman Charles Chevy Chase Chicago Chief City Clark clerk College Commerce committee County Dakota delegate deputy consul DISTRICT.-COUNTIES East Capitol Street educated Edward elected Expenditures expire March extraordinary and minister Fifty-eighth Fifty-ninth Frank George Georgia graduated H Street Henry Illinois Indian Iowa James January Jersey John Joseph June Kansas Kentucky Labor Legislature married Maryland Massachusetts Michigan military Miss Missouri Naval Navy nominated North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania Phone Population 1910 Post Office practice of law president Prohibitionist public schools receiving reelected REPRESENTATIVES Republican Rhode Island Avenue Road Robert served service will expire Sixtieth Sixty-first Sixty-second Congresses Sixty-third Congress Smith Socialist South South Dakota Tenn term of service Texas Thomas United States Senator University Vice and deputy Vice consul votes wards Washington West Virginia William William E Wyoming York
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Page 304 - claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulations of an executive department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States, or for damages, liquidated or unliquidated, in cásea not sounding in tort,
Page 296 - CHILDREN'S BUREAU. The act establishing the bureau provides that it shall investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people and shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courte,
Page 299 - the time during which such ownership or operation of vessels plying elsewhere than through the Panama Canal may continue, when it is found to be in the interest of the public and is of advantage to the convenience and commerce of the people, and not in restraint of competition.
Page 276 - and others in the Philippines, Hawaii, and Porto Rico, and supervises the medical officers detailed in the offices of the American consular officers at. foreign ports to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United Stales.
Page 300 - By the act approved March 1, 1913, amending the act to regulate commerce, the commission is directed to investigate, ascertain, and report the value of all the property owned or used by every common carrier subject to the provisions of the act.
Page 296 - Through the Hodgkins fund, the income of $100,000 of which is for the increase and diffusion of knowledge in regard to the nature and properties of atmospheric air in connection with the welfare of man, grants have been made, publications issued, and medals and prizes awarded.
Page 304 - not sounding in tort, in respect of which claims the party would be entitled to redress against the United States, cither in a court of law, equity, or admiralty, if the United States were suable,
Page 271 - OFFICIAL DUTIES. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. SECRETARY OF STATE. The Secretary of State is charged, under the direction of the President, with the duties appertaining to correspondence with the public ministers and the consuls ol the United States, and with the representatives of foreign powers accredited to the United States; and to negotiations of whatever character relating to the foreign
Page 296 - and disputes between employers and employees as they may occur, and which may happen to interfere with the welfare of the people of the several States. By the act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, as amended, it is made the duty of the bureau to collect and present in quinquennial
Page 296 - of these investigations in such manner and to such extent as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Labor. THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. The Smithsonian Institution was created by act of Congress in 1846, under the terms of the will of James Smithson, an Englishman, who in 1826 bequeathed his fortune to the United States to found, at Washington, under the name