ties, showing for each class the number of short tons originating on the road of the carrier, and the total number of tons carried. Commodities are grouped in the following classes: products of agriculture; products of animals; products of mines; products of forests; manufactures and miscellaneous; and merchandise. 2 The Bureau of Markets1 of the Department of Agriculture issues reports regarding the supply, commercial movement, disposition, and market prices of fruits and vegetables, livestock and meats, dairy and poultry products, grain, hay, feeds, and seeds. It also issues. reports showing the cold-storage holdings of meats, fish, lard, butter, cheese, eggs, dressed poultry, apples, and other commodities on the first day of each month, and the stocks of wheat held in mills and elevators on January 1, July 1, and October 1. It will be seen that all the statistics published by the Corps of Engineers, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and the Bureau of Markets,1 as outlined above, relate to one general topic-internal commerce, in the broad meaning of the term. For the sake of uniformity in methods of procedure, completeness of the published data, and economy of expenditure, all these statistics should be concentrated in a single unit-the Division of Internal Commerce Statistics in the Bureau of Federal Statistics. Since price fluctuations have an important bearing upon internal commerce, the preparation and publication of wholesale and retail price statistics should also be concentrated in this Division. A number of recommendations are made looking to the concentration within the Division of Internal Commerce Statistics of all statistics relating to our internal commerce. (See recommendations 9, 10, 21, 22, and 23.) Where statistics relating to internal trade are collected for administrative purposes by a particular branch of the service, as in the case of the revenue-freight statistics of the Interstate Commerce Commission, or where they can best be collected by agencies already existing which can not be incorporated in the Division of Internal Commerce Statistics, the task of collecting the primary data can not well be transferred. In such cases, however, the data should be transmitted to the proposed Division for compilation and publication. This report, therefore, contemplates (1) the transfer from the Bureau of Markets to the proposed Division of nearly all its statistical inquiries relating to the supply, commercial movement, and 1 See note on page 24. 'The frequency of these reports varies according to the character and importance of the commodity to which they relate and the season of the year. market prices of farm and nonmanufactured food products, the coldstorage holdings of food products, and stocks of wheat held in mills and elevators; (2) the transfer from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to the proposed Division of all inquiries relating to wholesale and retail prices; and (3) the establishment of cooperative arrangements whereby all the internal commerce statistics collected by the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Corps of Engineers would be sent to the proposed Division for compilation and publication. Division of Mineral Production Statistics.-The Division of Mineral Production Statistics would have charge of the decennial census of mines and quarries. It would also collect and publish, biennially, statistics of mineral production (in lieu of the inquiry now undertaken annually by the Geological Survey). (See recommendation 15.) Division of Statistics of Cities. To this Division would be assigned the statistics of States and cities and of wealth, debt, and taxation now collected by the Bureau of the Census. Division of Printing.-The work of this Division should be confined to the preparation of copy for the printer, proof reading, and the keeping of records of orders and costs of printing and binding. The collection of statistics relative to dependent, defective, and delinquent classes, and the preparation of the Official Register of the United States should be transferred from this Division to the Division of Population Statistics. (See Division of Population Statistics above.) Geographer's Division.-No change is contemplated in the work of the Geographer's Division. For details as to the work of this Division see page 56. A list of the present and proposed statistical activities of the Bureau of Federal Statistics follows. List of Present and Proposed Statistical Activities of the Bureau of Federal Statistics. In the following table will be found listed the present statistical activities of the Bureau of the Census and the proposed statistical activities of the enlarged Bureau of Federal Statistics. Statement showing okral Government can be grouped. Department and bure 46 Department of Commerce: Sociological statistics. Bureau of the Census.. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Co. Bureau of Navigation.. Steamboat-Inspection Service. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. Children's Bureau... Bureau of Immigration.. Department of the Interior: Department of Agriculture: Bureau of Crop Estimates1. Bureau of Animal Industry. Bureau of Public Roads.. Miscella⚫ neous statistics. X Federal Reserve Board.. Federal Trade Commission. United States Tariff Commission.. Interstate Commerce Commission.. Federal Board for Vocational Education United States Employees' Compensation The Panama Canal.. See note on page 24. X 31832-23. (Face p. 2.) Present statistical activities of the Bureau of the Census. Proposed statistical activities of the Bureau of Federal Statistics. Census of Marriage and Divorce. Census of Religious Bodies. Official Register of the United States.1 Cotton Ginning Statistics. Cotton consumed, imported, exported, and on hand. Cotton seed received, crushed, and on hand, and cottonseed products manufactured, shipped out, and on hand. Leaf tobacco stocks held by dealers and manufacturers. Census of Manufactures. Census of Products of Manufacturing Industries. Central Electric Light and Power Stations. Telephones. Telegraphs. Municipal Electric Fire Alarm and Police Patrol Signaling Systems. Census of Transportation by Water. Active and Idle Wool Machinery. Fats and Oils, production, consumption, and stocks on hand. Stocks of Hides and Skins. Occupation Statistics. Census of Mines and Quarries. Financial Statistics of Cities. General Statistics of Cities. Financial Statistics of States. Wealth, Debt, and Taxation. Birth Statistics (transferred to Public Health Service). Death Statistics (transferred to Public Health Service). Census of Marriage and Divorce. Official Register of the United States.1 Cotton Ginning Statistics. Cotton consumed, imported, exported, and on hand. Cotton seed received, crushed, and on hand, and cottonseed products manufactured, shipped out, and on hand. Leaf tobacco stocks held by dealers and manufacturers. Census of Manufactures. Census of Products of Manufacturing Industries. Central Electric Light and Power Stations. Telegraphs. Municipal Electric Fire Alarm and Police Electric power output and fuel consumption by public utilities plants (from Geological Survey). Census of Transportation by Water. Statistics of Forest Products (from Forest Service). Wool consumed by manufacturers and stocks of wool in the hands of dealers and manufacturers (from Bureau of Markets). Active and Idle Wool Machinery. Fats and Oils, production, consumption, and stocks on hand. Dairy products and Oleomargarine Manufactured (from Bureau of Markets). Petroleum Refinery Products, production and stocks on hand (from Bureau of Mines). Naval stores (turpentine and rosin), production and stocks on hand (from Bureau of Chemistry). Stocks of Hides and Skins. Occupation Statistics. Wages and Hours of Labor in Selected Industries (from Bureau of Labor Statistics). Union Scale of Wages and Hours of Labor (from Bureau of Labor Statistics). Statistics of Accidents to Wage Earners (from bureaus of Labor Statistics and Mines). Foreign Trade Statistics (from Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce). Rail commodity movements (from Interstate Commerce Commission). Water commodity movements (from Corps of Engineers and Inland and Coastwise Waterways Service). Warehouse and cold-storage holdings of food prod ucts (from Bureau of Markets). Prices, receipts and shipments of agricultural products after they have entered into the channels of trade (from Bureau of Markets). Wheat held in mills and elevators (from Bureau of Markets). Wholesale Prices (from Bureau of Labor Statistics). Retail Prices (from Bureau of Labor Statistics). Census of Mines and Quarries. Statistics of Mineral Production (from Geological Survey). Financial Statistics of Cities. General Statistics of Cities. Financial Statistics of States. Wealth, Debt, and Taxation. Statistical Abstract of the United States (from Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce). Weekly Health Index (transferred to Public Health Service). Special Studies Relating to Vital Statistics (transferred to Public Health Service). Census of the Fishing Industry." 1 It is recommended that the form of this publication be changed. See recommendation 29. It is recommended that this inquiry be discontinued. See recommendation 30. |