The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01
AND SEED
 DAY IN HOUSE
Members Desire the Continua-
 ti00 of Free Distribution
DEBATE CONTINUES TODAY
Bill Authorizing Dams and Power Sta tlons on Coosa River at Lock 2 In Alabama Was
 Passed

A'S"o oH SoSSa niScf az LOCK (
 In Alabama Was
 Passed
 Washington April s0.-This was both a field dsy and a seed day in the House, the major portion of the legisla- tive session being given over to the con sideration of the agricultural appropria- ton bill and incident thereto, the free distribution of seeds which the bill does not provide for. but which many mem bers desire to be restored to the bill
 Immediately after the approval of the journal MT. Olmstead of Pennsylvania presented d resolution of thanks on be- half of the people of the United States to Gen. Horace Porter. late ambassador to France. for his untiring efforts to dis cover and dlsinter the body of Admiral John Paul Jones. The resolution was unanimously adopted with further res olution that General Porter's speech re- gently delivered at Annapolis on the oc- casion of. inc interment of the body of America's first admiral. should be printed in the Congressional Record. and made congressional document.
 Eighteen pages of the agricultural bill were considered and perfected.
 The debate on the question of free seeds will be resumed tomorrow when vote is expected on the amendment to Insert an appropriation of sso0oO for the pur- chasa of and diat,ibrtfo,, af .s.ara ,..a unusual seeds
 Resolution Presented,
 At the beginning of todays session of the House, Mir Hull of Iowa called up and had passed a resolution naming Charles NJ. Anderson of Ohio. William Warner of Missouri. Franklin Murphy of New Jersey and James w. Wadsworth Of New Yo k members of the board of managers Q the National Home for Dis abled voht aesps Soldiers of the Unned States.
 MT. Olmstead of Pennsylvania presented a resolution declaring that the thanks of the people of the United States are justly due and are hereby rendered to Gen. Horace Porter, late ambassador to France, for his disinterested and patriotic services in conducting upon his own in- itiative and his own expense series of researches and excavations extending over & period of six years and resulting in the recovery of the body of Admiral John Paul Jones from a forgotten grave in a foreign land. and it's return to the country which he had loved so well and so heroically served
 Mr Bartlett of Georgia said he hoped the magnificent speech made by General Porter at the recent ceremonies attend ing the burial of the body of John Paul Jones at Annapolis will be printed in the Record.
 MT Olmstead said that not since the day of Benjamin Franklin had there been a more distinguished representative Of the American nation accredited to the republic of France than General Porter, and his untiring efforts to the recovery of the body of Americas first admiral should not go without proper recognition. The resolution was amended calling upon General Porter to furnish the House a copy of his address on the occasion above mentioned, and in that form the resolu- ton was adopted.
 For Alabama Dams.
 bill to authorize dams and power sta tons on lnt CooSd iiNSi ct A<cSh -' <hiA bama was passed.
 The House then resumed further con sideration of the agricultural appropria- ton bill.
 The seed question immediately came to the front. Mir. Rixey of Virginia said the chairman of the agricultural committee, MT. Wadsworth, and Mir. Henry of Con necticut had formed the ideas of free seeds from interested sources. the seed 1ai+x a ch the metropolitan press with selfshness in opposing the distribution of free seeds.
 Mir Henry of Connecticut in reply to MT. Rixey. had read a letter from the chief of an experiment. station in Connec- ticut, congratulating him on the stand against free seeds which was considered a farce by those who had made study of the subject.
 MT. Burnett of Alabama started to talk on the subject of free seeds when MT. Wordsworth of New York. in charge of the bill. asked him to withhold remarks until the paragraph dealing with plant industry" was reached.
 T am afraid that would not either be seen or heard by the chair if I waited un- til then" replied Mir. Burnett amid laugh ter, his small stature lending color to his laconic observation.
 He said if the members of the House would go with him to the one horse farm CT, ''the man with forty acres and a mule," they would see that the rural dis tricts were in favor of the appropriation.
 Questions Penalty Clause.
 MT. Crumpacker of Indiana saw no req son why the bill should carry penalty clause for counterfeiting weather fore casts. in view of the fact that the bill was general in character his opinion be- ing that 1t was special legislation. and was already the law. The motion to strike out the penalty clause was carried.
 Mir. Cocks of New York addressed the House on the free seed distribution. Mean time the House became unruiy, the aisles became congested and 1t was with diff iculty that the representative from the Oyster Bay district was permitted to pro- ceed.
 MT. Cocks said that his constituents were more desirous of having a set of seines. jack knives. anchors. compasses. or even clam rakes than garden seed.
 MT. Gaines of Tennessee endeavored to be heard above the noise and confusion. MT. Wadsworth objected to any further discussion of seeds under the paragraph relating to animal industry" This an- gered the Tennesseean and as he sat down by command of the chair. he managed to