Platt amendment-popular title of an amendatory law drafted by United States Senator Orville Hitchcock Platt of Connecticut and passed by Congress as an amendment to the Army Appropriations Bill of 1901. It specified conditions under which the federal government might intervene in the internal affairs of Cuba. Elkins act-Interstate Commerce Act, federal law comprising a number of congressional enactments that provide for the regulation by the United States government of domestic surface transportation in interstate commerce. …
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…John Mitchell. this dispute lasted five months. Departments of Labor and Commerce Established 1903- In 1913 the Department of Labor was established as a separate executive department, while the functions of the Department of Commerce were expanded; the chief officer of each department, the secretary, received cabinet rank. Among its tasks are taking of censuses, promotion of American business at home and abroad, establishing standard weights and measures, and issuing patents and registering trademarks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**