Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-30
HOUSE is FOR FREE SEEDS
Paragraph Restored to Bill by Votes o.
Members frsm Farming Regions
WILL DISTRIBUTE ORDINARY SEEDS
Representative MOndelI Speaks on the
Forest Reserve Policy of Admin
istrRtiOn-Lacey Would
Sell Timber.

WASHINGTON, Jan 29.-The house to-
day passed the senate bill increasing the
board Of customs appraisers in New York
from ten to twelve. and also passed the
senate bill conveying a strip of ground
In st. Augustine, Fla, for school pur-
poses,
The agricultural appropriation bill oe-
cupied most of the day, and as usual
when the amendment striking out the free
distribution of seeds was .rea ched, the men,
bers from the farming districts outvoted
those from the cities. reversed a ruling of
the chair by a vote of 1876 to IS and re
stored the paragraph has been the law
for years. The amendment appropriates
S23S, 600 for the free distribution of ordinary
seeds.
Representative Lacey of Iowa offered an
amendment authorizing the secretary of
agriculture to sell marketable and ripened
timber of forest reserves to persons not
belonging to any organization to control
lumber prices. Mr.. Lacey said the result
of the creation of great timber reserves
has been to increse the price of lumber
and he urged that the government should
offer lumber for sale at times when It will
tend to force down prices which have been
inflated by the lumber trust" He said
to play its strength against lumber mo-
nopoly.
The recommendations of the committee
on agriculture to increase the salaries of
Chief Forester Pinchot and the chief of
the bureau of chemistry, DR.. H. w. Wiley.
from $500 to $500, went out on points Of
order.
Pure Food Appropriation.
An important amendment was adopted
that no part of the money appropriated for
enforcement Of the national pure food law
should be paid to any state, city or dis
| trict official, the amendment being based
| on the theory that the states should exc
cute their own pure food laws.
Representative Mondell of Wyoming In
| discussing the, forest reserve policy. said
| no one could deny that It was a policy Of
paternalism and Capitalization land policy
| which should not be extended in this nation
| further than is absolutely necessary. There
must and there will be the hardship and
irritation incident TO paternalism," he said.
I'VE cannot get away from them, and
we of the west object to having the re-
| serves used a means for the increase
of the cost of the products OF the reserves
to the people of that region. l do not
intend to criticise generally the forest serv-
| w. hoNS VIC hibhSSl ANboiu AOA NiAS
gentlemen at the head of that service. 1
| believe that in the main they are ad-
ministering these reserves In a fair and
reasonable way, but it all illustrates the
tendency of this sort of thing, the inevitable
effect of bureaucratic government"
Lever CritIcises Cannon.
| Representative Lever of South Carolina
stirred up hornets nest when he offered
an amendment appropriatlng 100000 for
the purchase of the Appalachian and White
Mountain forest reserves. He said twelve
states were interested in the movement
and many governors had personally solic-
tied the speaker of the house to permit
the bill TO come before the body ON its
merits, but through mysterious influences
he said, the speaker was holding the bill