The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-17

diction in cases of lynching and
making the crime of participation in
lynchings punishable by death.
Senator Martin has introduced a bill
for a memorial bridge across the Pc.
tomao river at Washington at a cost
of S., 900, 600.
Representative Sims, of Tennessee,
will seek to have the Agricultural
Department to make a special inves.
tigation of the chemical composition
and economic uses of cotton seed
and it's products, and has introduced
a bill for the sum of $1O,O 900 for this
purpose.
President Roosevelt's refusal to
buy horses whose tails had been
docked has led Senator Gallinger,
who agrees with the President on
this subject, to introduce a bill in
the Senate making it unlawful for
any person to dock the tail of a horse
within the DISTRICT Of Columbia.
TO BUILD THE NICARAGUA CANAL.
Senator Morgan has introduced a
bin providing for the construction of
the Nicaragua Canal. The bill pro-
vides an aggregate of $50, 600, 900,
of which S., 600, 900 is made imme-
diately available, and of which ag-
gregate sum such amounts as are
necessary + to be appropriated by
Congress from time to time. The
control of the canal and of the canal
belt is vested in a board of eight
citizens of the United States in ad-
dition TO the Secretary of War, who
is to be Presidents. The members of
the board are to be paid a salary of
$4,000 a year each, and they are to
be chosen regardless of political
utilization. There is a provision au-
thOrizing the establishments of regi-
ment from the regular army en- the
canal belt to properly guard it, and
courts also T authorized conforma-
BILE TO the powers granted by the
governments of Nicaragua and Costa
Rica. There also is a prOvis
ion making three divisions of
the canal during the oonstruc-
ton and there is TO be chief en-
gineer and two assistants on each
division, the chief to receive a sal
airy of 5000, and each assistant
So, 900.
H APPALA,H HAN PARK.
Congressman BrownIow has intro
duced a bill for an Appalachian
forest eserv to be known as
mckinley Park" His bill appro-
PIRATES twice as much as Senator
Pritchard's bill and makes twice as
large u park. Speaking of the neces
sity of the appropriation, Mr.. Brown,
low said: cit is a subject of the
greatest Importance 80 the people
within the Appalachian belt.
II you will stop TO consider tor one
moment that the food which de
wasted the greater portion of my dis
tTiCt, and the distriot adjoining mine
in North Carolina last spring, de-
strOyed more than &12, 600, 600 worth
Of the property of the people, you
can readily understand why 1t is
that we are anxious for the Federal
Government to take control of the
mountains. Had it not been for the
of timber and the rafting of
down the Tennessee river the
damage caused by the flood would
been insignificant. The losses
sustained by the people in these two
Congressional districts alone were
more than we are asking Congress TO
appropriate for the establishment of
this national park and forest reserve,
W hich will provide safety so the PEG
pie residing on the rivers that have
their sources in the Appalachian
Yes, I think that when
Congress considers the question it
will act ~favorably upon the bill
REDUCE SOUTHERN REPRESENTA-
TON.
The plan to reduce the House rep
resentatiOn of States having dis
francisement laws is being discus ed,
but will hardly pass. The News
and Observers Washington CORES
Dondent says: THE impression that
the President will put his foot down
On the Moody and Crumpacker
schemes for reducing Southern rep
resentation grows. 1t is generally
nnlinund that he will nnrana Mr.. |