Hearings Before ...during 61-3, on the Estimates of Appropriations for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1912 and on Other Bills and Resolutions1911 - 550 pages |
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Page 200 - An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes...
Page 135 - Xvill take a recess until 2 o'clock. (Thereupon at 12.30 o'clock pm the committee took a recess until 2 o'clock pm) AFTERNOON SESSION. The committee reconvened, pursuant to the taking of the recess, at 2 o'clock pm, Hon.
Page 157 - Commission, is injured in the course of such employment, such employee shall be entitled to receive for one year thereafter, unless such employee, in the opinion of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, be sooner able to resume work, the same pay as if he continued to be employed...
Page 62 - For investigations in foreign seed and plant introduction, including the study, collection, purchase, testing, propagation, and distribution of rare and valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants from foreign countries and from our possessions, and for experiments with reference to their introduction and cultivation in this country, $182,300.
Page 157 - August first, nineteen hundred and eight, any person employed by the United States as an artisan or laborer in any of its manufacturing establishments, arsenals, or navy yards, or in the construction of river and harbor or fortification work or in hazardous employment on construction work in the reclamation of arid lands or the management and control of the same, or in hazardous employment under the Isthmian Canal Commission...
Page 361 - ... your own southern contest; showing the very widespread interest, the nation wide interest, that has been taken in the work you have been doing. Somebody has said, I believe, that he who made two blades of grass to grow where one grew before was a benefactor of the race, and surely a man or...
Page 14 - Agriculture by agreement with the companies performing the service; for the maintenance and repair of Weather Bureau telegraph, telephone, and cable lines; and for every other expenditure required for the establishment, equipment, and maintenance of meteorological offices and stations and for the issuing of weather...
Page 181 - Dairy investigations : For conducting investigations, experiments, and demonstrations in dairy industry, cooperative investigations of the dairy industry in the various States, and inspection of renovatedbutter factories, including repairs to buildings, not to exceed $5,000 for the construction of buildings 633, 199. 00 Total, Bureau of Dairy Industry, $703,694, of which amount not to exceed $313,020 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Page 114 - CHAPMAN. Is the telephone line put on forest trees or on poles ? Mr. GRAVES. In some cases it is put on the forest trees ; where the line runs right through the forest we put it on the forest trees. Mr. CHAPMAN. And it costs $50 to $60 a mile ? Mr. GRAVES. Yes; on the average it will cost about that. The CHAIRMAN. I would like to suggest to the members of the committee that all this matter with regard to the details of the improvement work would more properly come when we take up the expenditures...
Page 473 - STATION. [Under the supervision of AC TRUE, Director of the Office of Experiment Stations, United States Department of Agriculture.] WALTER H.