The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-01

dntv to itself and to the country,
demonstrate by it's action in this
case that seats in the United States
Senate procured as Senator Clarks
has been procured cannot be retained
by the deliberate Judgment of the
Senate"
The Senate has agreed to the con-
ference report on the Hawaiian Civil
Government bill. The conference
committee struck out the provisions
requiring the paying of taxes before
registration for voting and inserted a
provision that no person shall be inn
prisOned for nOn-payment of taxes
Gas he can be under existing Hawaiian
law OF for debt.
The Agricultural appropriation
bill, carrying 50, $50, 100, passed the
Senate Wednesday. An ~unsuccess-
full attempt was made to cut down
the appropriation for farmers bulle-
tins from $1O5, 900 to $85, 900. We do
not think these bulletins are appre-
ciated by farmers as highly as they
should be. They are carefully pre-
pared and are sent free upon appli-
cation.
We regret that the committee
amendment reducing the amount
fixed by the House for the purchase
and distribution of seeds from $780,
900 to $13O, 600, was disagreed to-.
The seed distribution is, in our Opin-
ion, a grand humbug. The apprO-
priatiOn was made originally for the
purchase and distribution of new and
rare seeds thought suited for Guilt
walton in this country. Now the
most common varieties are sent out.
Quite often the farmer because these
seeds are free uses them at Il heavy
loss instead Of buying first class seed
from reliable seedsmen.
The Senate adopted an amendment
offered by Senator Tillman, apprO-
priating S., 200 to enable the Secre-
tary of Agriculture to investigate
and report upon the cost of growing
hemp, to demonstrate whether it be
practicable to introduce it's culture
into the Southern States. He ex-
planned that the cotton planters of
the South are nearly at the mercy
Of the jute trust, which has ii mo-
nOpOly Of Implying the covering of
cotton bales, and hoped by this
amendment that a substitute for jute
might be found. Hemp culture was
discussed in The Progressive Farmer
last year. AS stated last week, ex-
periments with it are being made
near Wilmington.
The sentiment for government
ownership of the proposed cable from
San Francisco to Honolulu prevailed
in the Senate, which has passed a
bill appropriating So, 600, 900 for the
project.
The fast mail subsidy, appropriate
ing $171, 23S for especial mail facili-
ties" from New York to Atlanta and
New Orleans and $25, 900 from Kan
a City, Mo, to Newton, Kansas, is
still a feature of the p~ostOttice ap-
preparation biIl-a fact of which
Congress and the American people
should be ashamed. The first inter
est Of the railroads is to transport
passengers quickly and it has not
been shown that extra trains are run
or regular trains at unusual speed
because of these fast mail appropria-
tiOns. The subsidy met vigorous OPP
position, we are glad to say. Mr..
Williams, of Mississippi, for in
stance, said it was of no benefit to the
people of the South, but went into
the pockets of a syndicate, which re-
sides partly in New York, partly in
Great Britain and partly in Ger
many. We regret that of the North
Carolina delegation only one member,
Mr.. Kitchin, opposed the subsidy.
Two years ago Congressman ShufOrd
fought it bravely.
LITERARY NOTES.