Show METRIC SYSTEM IS FAVORABLY REPORTED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE washington starch 13 the bill to adopt the weights and measures oj the metric system as alie standard for the united states as introduced by Shai roth of colorado was today ordered favorably reported by the house committee on coinage weights and measures it provides that after january 1 1004 all the departments of the government in the transaction of all business requiring tho use of weights and measures except in completing surveys of public lands shall use only the weights and measures of the metric system and after the first of january 1907 the weights ami measures of the metric system will be alic legal standard weights and measure of and in the united states |