Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-27
CLUB WOMEN'S
AID is SOUGHT
FRIENDS OF cHiLDREN's BUREAU
BILL SEEK COOPERATION
TOWARD ENACTMENT.
is NOW IN CONGRESS
President Is In Favor of Measure and
S NOW IN CONGRESS
President Is In Favor Of Measure and
Has Sent Message to Legislators
Urging its Passage
The Bill.

Through Mrs. Carrie Emerson, presi-
dent of the Ottumwa Woman's club.
the cooperation Of local club women
has been asked to aid In the passage
of the Children's Bureau bill, recently
introduced into congress, at the re-
quest of the National Child Labor COM
mittee. President Roosevelt Is In fa-
vor Of the bill and during the past
week sent message to congress urs-
ing It's enactment. The matter will
probably be presented to the Womans
club at the next general meeting. The
bill follows:
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the senate
and house Of representatives Of the
United States Of America in congress
assembled. That there shall be estab-
lished in the department of interior a
bureau TO be known as the Children's
bureau.
Chief to Have Charge.
Sec. 2. That the said bureau shall
be under the direction of chief, to
be appointed by the president, by and
with the advice and consent of the
senate. and who shall receive All an
nual compensation of five thousand
| dollars. The said bureau shall inves-
| tigate and report upon all matters per-
tanning to the welfare of children and
child life, and shall especially inves-
tigate the questions of infant mortal
ity, the birth rate, physical degener-
acy, orphanage, juvenile delinquency
and juvenile courts, desertion and ille-
gitimacy, dangerous occupations, acct
dents and diseases of children Of the
working classes, employment, legisla-
ton affecting children in the several
states and territories, and such other
facts as have bearing upon the
health, efficiency, character and train
ing of children. The chief Of said
bureau shall, from time to time, pub
lish the results of these Investigations.
Clerks to Help.
Sec. and Sec. provide for the
bureau sufficient statistical experts,
secretaries, clerks, copyists and spe-
cial agents to carry on the work Of
the bureau, and for quarters in the
offices or the Department Of the In
terror. The total appropriation requir-
ed Is less than $50,O00per annum.
f.
take effect Immediately upon its pass
age.
The bill has been referred to the
committee on Expenditures In the In
terror Department, composed Of the
following representatives, whose home
i addresses are also given:
l Hon. Gilbert n. Haugen, Northwood,
Iowa.
! Hon, James Kennedy, Youngstown,
Ohio.
Hon. Daniel F. Lafean, York, Penn.
Hon. George R. Malby, Ogdensburg
N. Y.
Hon. Robert N. Pays, Biscoe, N. G..
Hon. Wilson S. Hill, Winona, Miss
Hon. Rufus Hardy, Corsicana, Tex
On January II, 1909, the same bill
was introduced in the United States
senate by Hon. w. Murray Crane OF
Massachusetts; is known as senate
bill No 1928 and has been referred
to the committee on Education and
Labor. This committee is composed
Of the following senators:
Jonathan P. Dolliver Of Iowa, chair
man.
Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania.
Frank P. Flint of California.
Frank B. Brandegee Of Connecticut
William e. Borah, of Idaho.
John w. Daniel. Of Virginia.
Isidor Rayner, Of Maryland.
Thomas H. Paynter, of Kentucky.
John H. Bankhead, of Alabama.