The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-09
Department Representatives
Form Committee on
Coming Congress.
$4,000 PROVIDED
FOR u. S. EXHIBITS
Assistant Secretary of State Bacon
Makes Short Address-S40,000
TO Fit Up Meeting Hall.

Eight representatives Of the several
Government departments met in the
diplomatic room of the State Depart
ment yesterday afternoon and formed
the departments committee on the in
ternational tuberculosis congress.
w. ]. carr, chief clerk OF Abe State
Department, was elected chairman. and
Mai. NJ w. ireland, of the Army Medi-
cal Corps, was elected secretary.
The meeting was opened by Acting
Secretary Of State Bacon. who in a
brief Introductory speech told its pur-
pose. and the work intended for 1t by
Congress. Twenty-Five thousand dol
lars was appropriated by Congress to
enable the Government to suitably par
ticipate in the international tubercu-
losis congress. which is to meet in the
new National Museum building from
September 4 to October T. The Secrc-
tary OF State was placed in control
and ne made arrangements for the
meeting.
Departments to Exhibit.
Part of the $4,000 was allotted to en-
able the departments to prepare an eX-
hibit The Treasury will have an ex-
hibit OF the work of the Marine Hos
pitaI Service: tile War Department will
have an exhibit of the work done at
Fl Bayard; the Navy Department will
exhibit its work, probably at new Fl
Lyon; the Indian Office will have an
exhibit Of tuberculosis and the work
done among the Indians; the AgricuI-
ture Department will have an exhibit
relative TO the tuberculosis in animals.
from the Bureau Of hr'T11l Industry;
and the Census Office will display a
= che Hnrw
the relative distribution Of tuberculO-
sis and Of deaths from IL in the United
States. The Smithsonian exhibit will
be supplementary To that Of the Indian
Office
Seventeen thousand of the $4,000 were
allotted for the exhibits and at the
next meeting the various departments
viii submit estimates of the amount of
. floor space required
$4,000 to Prepare Hall
Congress appropriated $4,000 for the
. fitting up of the new National Museum
building for the accommodation Of the
Congress The departments committee
is as follows:
w. J. Carr, chief clerk, Department OF
State.
Assistant Surgeon General A H.
Glennan. Marine Hospital Service,
. Treasury Department.
. Corps. War Department.
Surgeon General Presley NJ. Rixey,
Navy Department
Mrs Elsie +. Newton, special Indian
agent. Interior Department.
Col. S. r. Burch, chief clerk, Depart
ment of Agriculture
DR. s. y D North, Director Of the
Census. Department Of Commerce and
! Labor.
: ". de c. Ravenel Smithsonian Insti-
p tuition.
Union May Exhibit.
Columbia Typographical Union, o.
161- has requested the executive co
of the International Typographical
( ion 10 endeavor 70 arrange for an
hiBt at the congress,
Attention will be called to the work
of the Union Printers Home, at Colo
rado Springs, the oId-age pension law.
and other charitable and beneficent
: work that the printers are doing for
. rne health and comfort Of their fellow
pSCIS CrS. Photographs and statistics
Will he prepared on these subjects, and
Papers viii be read by competent au-
thorities showing what has been done
AID what II is hoped to accomplish for
She health and comfort OF the working
Ilr-LnterS-