The rustler., 1891-11-20

bling yesterday morning and Il was II
o'clock before Niee-isresiaent Smith
let the oornoob Favel drop calling the
session 10 arsier.
The following resolutions we're intro
duned and referred; nv John Church.
|, Of Colorado, urging congress TO eede
arid lands In the various states % pro-
vide The states with systems Of irrira-
tion; by NJ Il " Harman. of Missouri.
urging the extension Of the signal and
crop report Of the department of arri-
culture; by Tirgie Mackay. of Kansas.
providing that the ear Of corn used by
the chairman n a ravel be sent n the
worlds fair for exhibition: by G. ".
Swing. Of Colorado, urging a national
system Of irrigation
Congressman John 7. Head. Of the
Sixth Missouri congressional district
delivered an address On railway trans
portation. This he said. was a subject
Of supreme Importance q the farmer
One Of the solutions Of this vexed anes-
tiun was to be found IN state railway
commissions Missouri had been among
the first of the states 10 deal with the
question in that way aud Missouri's cx-
perienee showed that the method had
been success Another method Of
controlling railway corporations In
the interests Of the people was through
n national railway commission.
Some professed. Mr.. Heard said 10
believe the railroads should be plaeed
under government management Gov
eminent railroadiug he believed, would
be a gigantic failure. In the first place
! the government would have TO buy the
railroads and that would cost $40. 0O0.-
o00,0o0 That would bc an impossibility.
practically, because there was in cireu-
lation only 81, 500, 900. 600. The purchase
of the railroads would necessitate in /
curing a debt Of gigantic proportions /
and be did not believe the farmers or
anyone else wanted to go down into /
their pockets any pay any more debts /
than they were now paying. Another /
great objection to government railway
control was the increase In federal Of /.
tceholders which II would necessitate. |
H. c. Brown, of Georgia. indorsed |
everything that Mr. Heard had said. I
Georgia, he said, had tried state owner. I
ship OF railways Georgia owned the /
Western 4 Atlantic railway Under /
state control the rates were high, the
service was bad and the deficits were
extraordinary.
Hon. Martin Mohler, secretary of the
Kansas state board of agriculture. read
a paper on "rhe Race Under Conditions
of High Civilization" lie discussed the
question whether high state of civili-
zation tended to increase or decrease
the happiness of mankind lie took
the optimistic view of the question, and
concluded the higher civilization the
greater the happiness of the race.
At the afternoon session the commit.
tee on resolutions presented the follow
ing preamble and resolution which
were adopted
VIII rras, Tue government Of the United
states has established ms cabinet office n
secrctafyship Of agriculture. which action
We heartily approve. aud
whereas, Tue Hon !. NJ. Ruak oceuples
that distinguished position in tn. present
admlnstrttian. md has been faith Il. and
cautious ani dilIeeut In consulting the best
nt' rests sf TIE ftrm rs therefore be- Il
Il solved. That he is entitled to aud has
the approval und thanks of this, tn elev.
euth annual session of the national farmers
congress Of the United stltes In convention
assembled In th" city OF sedalia. Mo
The committee also submitted its
formal report through its chairman.
Col. Daniel Needhum, of Boston, and
1t was read by Capt. d. 5. Pierce, of
Georgia. 1t recommended the adoption
of resolutions pledging the organiza-
tion to maintain its non-partisan char
acter; requesting the national congress
to improve the river and harbor !
of Savannah, Ga. demanding the
passage of laws distributing equally
upon all classes the burdens of taxa [
ton; declaring that the public domain
should be reserved for the settlement ,
OF citizens of the United States TO the
exclusion of foreigners; declar- {:
ing that national taxation should
be limited to the wants of
the government economically and
administered; requesting the
secretary of agriculture to increase the
number OF representatives in foreign
to push the work of introduce
ing American corn as food, believing
that the marked success In that diree-
ton attained already was warrant for
such request, and requesting congress
10 appropriate sufficient money to cover
the expense of this increased represen.
tation abroad; demanding the syste-
matte and thorough improvement by
.he federal government of WATERWAYS
aud harbors of the United States and
the extension of the free de-
livery of mails among the farmers.
The resolutions were considered se-
-iatim and were all adopted with the
exception of one requesting the federal
government to aid the states in the irri-
cation Of arid lands, which the con-
5ress struck from the report by a vote
of A To us.
The resolution asking congress to i'm
prove the harbor mt Savannah, Ga, was
oudly applauded and unanimously
adopted, as was also that demanding =
The election of the president and vice.
president of the United States senator's
BY popular vote.