The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-17
Congressional Bills.
The Tariff Commission.

The Tariff Commission.
To provide for the appointment of a com.
mission to investigate the question Of the
tariff
Be it enacted, etc, That commission il
hereby created, to be called the "Tarig
Commission" to consist of nine members
SECTION 2 That the President of the
United States shall, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate an
point nine commissioners from civil
life, one of whom, the first named, shall
be president of the commission. The
commissioners shall receive as common.
sation for their services each at the rate NJ
$40 per day when engaged in active duty
and actual travelling and other necessary
expenses. The commission shall have pover
to employ a stenographer and messenger.
and the foregoing compensation and expen.
ses to be audited and paid by the Secretary
OF the Treasury out of any moneys in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated
SEC. 3. That it shall be duty of said com.
mission TO take into consideration and IN
thoroughly investigate all the various
questions relating to the agricultural, COM
mercial, mercantile, manufacturing, min
inc, and industrial interests of the United
States, 50 far as the same may be necessary to
the establishment of a iudicious tariff or
revision of the existing tariff upon a scale of
Justice TO all interests, and for the purpose
OF fully examining the matters which NAV
come before it: said commission, in the
prosecution of its inquiries, is empowered
to visit such different portions and sections
of the country as 1t may deem advisable.
SEC, 1. That the commission shall make
to Congress Il final report of the results of
its investigation, and the testimony taken
in course of the same, not later than the
first Monday in December, 1882; and it
shall cause the testimony taken to be print
ed from time TO time, and distributed to
members of Congress by the Public Printer
and shall also cause to be printed for the use
of Can.rcss two thousand copies of its final
report. together with the testimony.
To CREATE A DEPARTMENT OF AGMCUL-
TURE.
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ihe o''' ~ g"ll''SH n o'ti % ehI"'s' 'he
powers ana duties OF the department OF
Agriculture.
SEtiioN P'2F'5Ios In"' 'ue department.
OF Agriculture shaI Re3e5i'rtI ne an exec
a'I'e urpatImeAt' ana the commissioner
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SIC. : PfoYidea i'i secretary anu AS
slstAhI secretary 10 oe appointed 10y the
fresidehI ~ ana with the ADVICE ana
consent OF The senate, the secretary to fe,
eeIve The same compensation as is now PAID
to the other heads of Departments, the
Assistant Secretary SL0VO per annum, and
the chief clerk, 10 be appointed by the
Secretary, 5000 per annum.
SEC. provides that the StatistIcIan OF
the Department SHAH collect all Facts, m
formation, ana statistics obtainable IN rela-
ton to the annual product OF manufactures
aud the cost thereof the various processes
provided, the quantity and value of raw
material consumed, and such other intor-
nation As shall show each year the condition
OF manufactures in the several States; also,
to collect all the facts relating TO the wages
Of labor, hours Of labor, and the general
condition Of the laboring classes throughout
the country.
SEC. authorizes the Secretary of the
Department of Agriculture to call upon the
chief Of the Bureau Of Statistics, now en-
gagged under the Treasury Department, for
all information collected by that bureau
relating to the railroad system of the couu-
try, and the cost of constructing and oper-
ating the same, 1t also makes it the duty