Official Congressional Directory, Volume 62, Issue 3, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 |
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62d Mar admitted Affairs appointed Assistant Avenue born chairman Charles Chicago clerk College Columbia committee common schools County Dakota degree of A. B. delegate Democratic national convention deputy consul district DISTRICT.-COUNTIES educated elected Expenditures expire March farm Fifty-eighth Fifty-ninth Fifty-seventh Frank George Georgia graduated Henry House of Representatives Illinois Indiana Iowa Isaac Stephenson James January John John Walter Smith Joseph July June Kansas Kentucky La Follette law department Legislature married Massachusetts Missouri nominated North Carolina North Dakota November Ohio Pennsylvania Population 1910 Post Office practice of law practiced law president Prohibitionist public schools receiving the degree Robert SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES Secretary served service will expire SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES Sixtieth and Sixty-first Sixty-first Congresses Sixty-second Congress Sixty-third Congress Smith Socialist South Street studied law Tenn term of service Texas Thomas United States Senate University Vice and deputy votes wards Washington West Virginia William William E Wisconsin York
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Page 288 - ... the taking of such meteorological observations as may be necessary to establish and record the climatic conditions of the United States or as are essential for the proper execution of the foregoing duties.
Page 294 - An Act granting to certain employees of the United States the right to receive from it compensation for injuries sustained in the course of their employment...
Page 272 - Treasury to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States...
Page 294 - Labor, who is directed to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital ; the hours of labor ; the earnings of laboring men and women ; and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Page 300 - Persons honorably discharged from the military or naval service by reason of disability resulting from wounds or sickness incurred in the line of duty shall be preferred for appointments to civil offices, provided they are found to possess the business capacity necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of such offices.
Page 294 - Congress had stated in the new law : . . . there is hereby established at the seat of Government of the United States a Department of Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 301 - ... aid said Secretary in soliciting bids based upon formulas and specifications drawn up by such experts in the service of the Government as the committee may see fit to call upon, who shall render whatever assistance they may require.
Page 296 - Bureau was created in 1912— to investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
Page 287 - That it shall be the province and duty of said bureau and its director, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to make diligent investigation of the methods of mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, and the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents...
Page 62 - County and served six years, being reelected in 1889; in 1898 was appointed assistant tax commissioner in the department of taxes and assessments of the city of New York...