The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-01-23

The Senate Committees substitute for Mr..
Mann's Senate bin No "a, re-establishing the
Bureau VI Immigration, comes up to-day in that
body uSsier special orders OF the day We have
not bai time or opportunity TO study the bill
closely. but from brief examination we End
that il repeats the old law and creates a new
; Bureau to be composed OF the Governor and his
Cabines and Commissioner of Agriculture and
immigration. who is to superintend the workings
of the Bureau and devote his entire time ex-
clusiyesy thereto. He is to be paid the same
salary rs q Cabinet officer, and il is made
part o. the business of the Bureau, Cbesides
the encouragement Of immigration by the
publication and distribution Of printed matter,
&c-h IL organize system of inspection of COM
mercias fertilizers offered for sale within the
State
This department of work contemplates, &C
coriins to the bin, the employment of a chemist
at salary not TO exceed 81 500 and inspectors,
not To exceed six in number, who are to be paid
| a moc'y OF the inspection fees collected by them,
the ren:ander, after paying the other expenses OF
the Bureau, to be turned'over to the State Treas
urer. The method of inspection is given in de-
tail, embracing provisions designating with scien
tc exsctness the form and details of the required
ANALYSIS, and fixing standard Of purity.
| No appropriation isiprovided for the support
| Of the Bureau, it being apparently contemplated
! that bs inspection fees will more than cover the
cost Of its maintenance. Whether this is proba-
| BILE re1ians to be demonstrated by the advocates
! of the bill when il comes up for final action.
i Whether this is the best form in which the
Burt AZ should be continued in existence, we will
not DOW attempt TO discuss. The more vital
| queslis,n whether we shall have Bureau at all
seems 10 have occupied the attention of the As
! sembly, which on the 10Th instant passed As
sembls bill No. 8, simply repeating the old law,
without attempting any rcestablshment of the
I Bureae7
| This action on the part of that body would
seem go indicate that it is its desire and intention
to abolish the Bureau entirely. If such is its
! determination, the bill now before the Senate
will scarcely be likely to become law nor is the
/ Bureau likely to be re-cstablshed in any shape.
But Will the Senate, if it passes any bill to re-
establish which cannot be passed through the
Assembly, be likely, on, the other hand, to con-
| cur in the Assemblys repeal of the existing
| law
The chances for sort of dead lock " look
promising, TO say the least. II such occurs, the
inevitable result Of an adjournment without
harm"nious concurrent action on the part of the
two branches Of the Legislature, will be to leave
| the Bureau rs it now exists, with its annual ap-
proposition of FIVE thousand dollars intact
1t seems evident, aside from the pronounced
action already taken by the Assembly that the
general sentiment throughout the State is that
the Bureau, during The past two years, has done
wog!d Of good and some individuals as we'll
as sosne Of the most prominent newspapers of
the State, have urged as large an appropriation
for its support as twenty-five thousand dollars.
We believe it would cause great disappointment
to all friends of progress and development in the
State 10 see the Bureau abolished, and in com
mon with them VIC hope that better counsel will
prevail and that the two houses now apparently
SO widely divided upon this important question
may lie able to find common ground upon which
TO meet for the enactment of such legislation as
will enure TO the honor, welfare and prosperity
of the State