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Smoot on April 1 to the effect that no gov- 

 ernmental journal, magazine, or periodical 

 should be printed, issued, or discontinued 

 without the approval of the joint committee 

 on printing. On account of the inclusion of 

 this amendment the President vetoed the bill 

 on May 13. The paragraph was eliminated 

 and the bill repassed and signed as Public 

 Law 'No. 231. 



The act includes $432,360 for salaries at 

 the Bureau of Standards, together with many 

 special research items of which the following 

 are examples : fire-resisting properties of 

 building materials, $25,000; development of 

 color standards, $10,000; optical glass, $25,000; 

 metallurgical research, $25,000; sugars and 

 sugar-testing apparatus, $30,000; high tem- 

 perature measurement and control, $10,000. 

 Total for the Bureau, $1,217,360. 



A joint resolution looking toward an even 

 more comprehensive reorganization of the 

 executive departments than that contained in 

 the Jones-Reavis bill was introduced as H. J. 

 Ees. 353 on May 7 by Mr. Madden. The reso- 

 lution provides for a Joint Committee on Re- 

 organization consisting of three members 

 each from House and Senate. Referred to 

 the Committee on Rules. 



Another reorganization and consolidation 

 measure is S. 4369, introduced by Mr. Hen- 

 derson on May 12 : " To create a Division of 

 Mines and Geology in the Department of the 

 Interior." The proposed Division would be 

 imder the direction of an Assistant Secretary 

 of the Interior, " technically qualified by ex- 

 perience and education," at a salary of 

 $10,000. The powers and duties of the pres- 

 ent Geological Survey and Bureau of Mines, 

 and any powers and duties of other federal 

 agencies relating to mining, metallurgy, min- 

 eral technology, geological surveying, land 

 classification, or mineral resources, would be 

 transferred to the new Division. The bill 

 was referred to the committee on Mines and 

 Mining. 



THE MEETING OF ORIENTALS AND OCCIDEN- 

 TALS IN THE PACIFIC COAST AREA 



A SCIENTIFIC symposium on this subject will 

 be held in San Diego and La Jolla, California, 



from August 1 to 13. It will consist of special 

 technical discussions at Scripps Institution, 

 La Jolla, and public addresses with opportuni- 

 ties for questions at the community center of 

 the Unitarian Church, San Diego. 



The initial assumption made for the discus- 

 sion is : All particular difficulties rest back on 

 a world problem of three-fold aspect : (a) The 

 aspect of world population. (6) The aspect of 

 world supply of " raw material " and " manu- 

 factured goods " for sustaining the world pop- 

 ulation, (c) The aspect of world civilization. 



The program is as follows: 



INTRODUCTORY 



statement, pro and con, of the troubles due to 

 oriental migration, particularly into the Pacific 

 Coast states of North America: Walter B. Pit- 

 kin, soliool of journalism, Columbia University. 



THE WORLD PROBLEM 



(a) In its population aspect (its numerical phase 

 only) : W. C. Thompson, sociologist, department 

 of agriculture, Cornell University. 



(6) In its material supplies aspect: E. M. East, 

 plant genetics, Bussey Institute, Harvard Uni- 

 versity. 



(o) In its civilizational aspect: Wm. E. Eitter, 

 "biologist, Scripps Institution for Biological Ee- 

 search, University of California. 



The general oriental-occidental problem: Dr. Gil- 

 bert Eeid, direetor-in-chief, International Insti- 

 tute of China. 



LOCAL ORIENTAL-OCCIDENTAL PROBLEMS OF PACIFIC 

 NORTH AMERICA 



(a) "Cheap labor" problem; "standard of liv- 

 ing" problem; "race prejudice" problem: 

 W. C. Thompson. 



(6) The general and special problems of rural life 

 and agricultural industry: Elwood Mead, pro- 

 fessor of rural institutions. University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



(c) The "fertility" problem; the "miscegena- 

 tion" problem: S. J. Holmes, department of 

 zoology, University of California 



(d) The problem of conflicting national policies: 

 E. T. Williams, professor of oriental languages 

 and literature. University of California. 



