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CONGRESS. (OLEOMARGARINE AND DAIRY-PRODUCTS.) 



March 3, 1899, relating to the twelfth census, not 

 inconsistent with the provisions of this act, shall 

 remain in full force and effect for the taking of the 

 thirteenth and subsequent censuses. 



" SEC. 7. That section 8 of the act of March 

 3, 1899, is hereby amended so as to read as fol- 

 lows: That after the completion and return of the 

 enumeration and of the work upon the schedules 

 relating to the products of agriculture and to man- 

 ufacturing and mechanical establishments pro- 

 vided for in section 7 of this act, the director 

 of the census is hereby authorized decennially to 

 collect statistics relating to special classes, in- 

 cluding the insane, feeble-minded, deaf, dumb, and 

 blind ; to crime, pauperism, and benevolence, in- 

 cluding prisoners, paupers, juvenile delinquents, 

 and inmates of benevolent and reformatory in- 

 stitutions; to social statistics of cities; to public 

 indebtedness, valuation, taxation, and expendi- 

 tures; to religious bodies; to electric light and 

 ] tower, telephone, and telegraph business; to trans- 

 portation by water, express business, and street- 

 railways; to mines, mining, quarries and minerals, 

 and the production and value thereof, includ- 

 ing gold in divisions of placer and vein, and sil- 

 ver-mines, and the number of men employed, 

 the average daily wage, average working time, 

 and aggregate earnings in the various branches 

 and aforesaid divisions of the mining and quar- 

 rying industries until July 1, 1904. And the di- 

 rector of the census shall prepare schedules con- 

 taining such interrogatories as shall in his judg- 

 ment be best adapted to elicit the information 

 required under these subjects, with such specifica- 

 tions, divisions, and particulars under each head 

 as he shall deem necessary to that end, and all 

 reports prepared under the provisions of this sec- 

 tion shall be designated as ' Special reports of the 

 Census Office.' For the purpose of securing the 

 statistics required by this section, the director of 

 the census may appoint special agents when neces- 

 sary, and such special agents shall receive com- 

 pensation as hereinafter provided : Provided, That 

 the statistics of special classes, and of crime, 

 pauperism, and benevolence specified in this sec- 

 tion, shall be restricted to institutions containing 

 such classes and the director of the census is 

 authorized and directed to collect statistics rela- 

 ting to all of the deaf, dumb, and blind, notwith- 

 standing the restrictions and limitations con- 

 tained in section 8 of said act entitled : ' An Act 

 to provide for taking the twelfth and subsequent 

 censuses ': Provided, That in taking the census of 

 said classes the inquiries shall be confined to the 

 following 4 questions, namely: Name, age, sex, 

 and post-office address. 



" SEC. 8. That there shall be a collection of the 

 statistics of the births and deaths in registration 

 areas for the year 1902, and annually thereafter, 

 the data for which shall be obtained only from 

 and restricted to such registration records of such 

 States and municipalities as in the discretion of 

 the director possess records affording satisfactory 

 data in necessary detail, the compensation for 

 the transcription of which shall not exceed 2 

 cents for each birth or death reported. 



" SEC. 9. That in the year 1905, and every ten 

 years thereafter, there shall be a collection of the 

 statistics of manufactures, confined to manufac- 

 turing establishments conducted under what is 

 known as the factory system, exclusive of the 

 so-called neighborhood and mechanical industries; 

 and the director is hereby authorized to prepare 

 such schedules as in his judgment may be neces- 

 sary to carry out the provisions of this section; 

 and that in addition to the statistics now pro- 

 vided for liy law the director of the census shall 



annually collect the statistics of the cotton pro- 

 duction of the country as returned by the ginners 

 and bulletins giving the results of the same shall 

 be issued weekly beginning Sept. 1 of each year 

 and continued till Feb. 1 following; and that the 

 director of the census shall make, from time to 

 time, any additional special collections of statis- 

 tics relating to any branch of agriculture, manu- 

 facture, mining, transportation, fisheries, or any 

 other branch of industry that may be required of 

 him by Congress. 



" SEC. 10. That section 17 of the act of March 

 3, 1899, is hereby amended so as to read as 

 follows : 



" ' SEC. 17. That the special agents appointed 

 under the provisions of this act have like author- 

 ity with the enumerators in respect to the sub- 

 jects committed to them under this act and shall 

 receive compensation at rates to be fixed by the 

 director of the census: Provided, That the same 

 shall in no case exceed $6 per day and actual 

 necessary traveling expenses and an allowance in 

 lieu of subsistence not exceeding $3 per day during 

 their necessary absence from their usual place of 

 residence: And provided further, That no pay or 

 allowance in lieu of subsistence shall be allowed 

 special agents when employed in the Census Of- 

 fice on other than the special work committed to 

 them, and no appointments of special agents shall 

 be made for clerical work: And provided further, 

 That the director of the census is hereby author- 

 ized in his discretion to employ the clerical force 

 of the Census Office for such field-work as may be 

 required to carry out the provisions of sections 

 7, 8, and 9, in lieu of employing special agents for 

 that purpose; and such employees when so em- 

 ployed shall be allowed, in addition to their regu- 

 lar compensation, actual necessary traveling ex- 

 penses and an allowance in lieu of subsistence 

 not exceeding $3 per day during their necessary 

 absence from the Census Office. All employee's 

 of the Census Office shall be citizens of the United 

 States.' 



"SEC. 11. That the printing-office established 

 in the Census Office is hereby abolished to take 

 effect July 1, 1902, and the outfit and equipment 

 therein shall be turned over to the public printer; 

 and the director of the census is hereby author- 

 ized and directed to have printed, published, and 

 distributed, from time to time, bulletins and re- 

 ports of the preliminary and other results of the 

 various investigations authorized by law; and all 

 of said printing and binding shall be done bv the 

 public printer at the Government Printing-6ffice. 



" SEC. 12. That the supplemental acts amenda- 

 tory of the act of March 3,. 1899, approved Feb. 



1, 1900, May 10, 1900, June 2, 1900, Feb. 23, 1901, 

 are hereby repealed; and all provisions of the act 

 of March 3, 1899, inconsistent with this act are 

 hereby repealed." 



Oleomargarine and Dairy-Products. A bill 

 " to make oleomargarine and other imitation 

 dairy-products subject to the laws of any State 

 or Territory or the District of Columbia into which 

 they are transported, and to change the tax on 

 oleomargarine, and to amend an act entitled ' An 

 Act defining butter, also imposing a tax upon and 

 regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, 

 and exportation of oleomargarine.' approved Aug. 



2, 1886," was taken up for discussion in the Hon~r 

 of Representatives Feb. 3, 1902. It provided that 

 oleomargarine brought into one State from an- 

 other for sale be subject to the laws of the local- 

 ity, and that a tax of 10 cents a pound be levied 

 on the manufacture of oleomargarine made in 

 imitation of yellow butter. In support of the 

 HUM "lire, Mr. Haskins, of Connecticut, speaking 



