Items of Interest December 25, 1902 Issue

Items of Interest

The House Committee on Interstate Commerce has ordered a favorable report on the Department of Commerce Bill. The provision including the Bureau of Labor in the new department was retained on a tie vote.

The bill, as it will come from the House Committee, will embrace within the proposed Department of Commerce, the Lighthouse Board, Lighthouse Service, National Bureau of Standards, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Bureau of Immigration, Fish Commissioner, Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department, Bureau of Foreign Commerce of the State Department, fur seal and salmon fisheries, Bureau of Labor and Census, and three new bureaus—insurance, manufactures, and corporations.

The province and duty of the proposed Bureau of Corporations, is, under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, to gather, compile, publish, and supply information concerning corporations engaged in interstate or foreign commerce.

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