US Senate Bill Regulating the Method of Keeping Mortality Statistics by the Census Bureau, and Providing for Tabulating and Rating Separately White and Colored People
Title
US Senate Bill Regulating the Method of Keeping Mortality Statistics by the Census Bureau, and Providing for Tabulating and Rating Separately White and Colored People
Creator
Ransdell, Joseph E. (Joseph Eugene), 1858-1954
Identifier
CB050214
Date
1914 May 2
Description
Senate bill regarding segregated census statistics.
Source
US National Archives and Records Administration 570/1/12/2 box #96 file #67001.42
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Subject
African-Americans--segregation
Contributor
Althea Cupo
Maria Matlock
Language
English
Provenance
Digital copy acquired from federal archives by previous WWPL Archivist, Heidi Hackford.
Text
S. 5465.
In The Senate of the United States
May 2, 1914.
Mr. Randell introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Census.
A Bill
Regulating the method of keeping mortality statistics by the Census Bureau, and providing for tabulating and rating separately white and colored people.
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter in compiling mortality statistics, the Census Bureau shall make a separate tabulation and rating of the white and colored races.
Sec. 2. That the mortality rate of cities shall hereafter be based upon the death of the actual residents of the city, and that the death of nonresidents shall be kept separately.
Sec. 3. That it shall be left to the Census Bureau to determine what constitutes a resident within the meaning and terms of this Act.
63d Congress, 2d Session.} S. 5465
A Bill
Regulating the method of keeping mortality statistics by the Census Bureau, and providing for tabulating and rating separately white and colored people.
By Mr. Ransdell.
May 2, 1914.- Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Census
In The Senate of the United States
May 2, 1914.
Mr. Randell introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Census.
A Bill
Regulating the method of keeping mortality statistics by the Census Bureau, and providing for tabulating and rating separately white and colored people.
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter in compiling mortality statistics, the Census Bureau shall make a separate tabulation and rating of the white and colored races.
Sec. 2. That the mortality rate of cities shall hereafter be based upon the death of the actual residents of the city, and that the death of nonresidents shall be kept separately.
Sec. 3. That it shall be left to the Census Bureau to determine what constitutes a resident within the meaning and terms of this Act.
63d Congress, 2d Session.} S. 5465
A Bill
Regulating the method of keeping mortality statistics by the Census Bureau, and providing for tabulating and rating separately white and colored people.
By Mr. Ransdell.
May 2, 1914.- Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Census
Original Format
Legislative Bill
Files
Collection
Citation
Ransdell, Joseph E. (Joseph Eugene), 1858-1954, “US Senate Bill Regulating the Method of Keeping Mortality Statistics by the Census Bureau, and Providing for Tabulating and Rating Separately White and Colored People
,” 1914 May 2, CB050214, Race and Segregation Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.