The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-30
FARMERS MAY GET FREE SEED Candler of Mississippi
 Wins Point. HE CONTINUES DISTRIBUTION House Strikes Out Provision in
 the Bill. Amendment Making Appropriation for Sending Out Ordinary Seeds Adopted After Speaker Had
 Been 0verruied.
HE CONTINUES DISTRIBUTION

Washington, Jan. 29.--Under the leadership of Mir. Candler of Mississippi today the House Committee of the Whole voted to continue the free dis tribution of garden and flower seeds along old lines and not according to the methods as recommended by the Agricultural Committee in the Appro- priation bill.
 Mir Jones Of Washington made point of order against the amendment that no distribution of seeds were au- fiiorized by law.
 Mr. Foster of Vermont, in the chair, sustained the point, but admitted that II was an exceedingly close question. Were it a new proposition, there was 10 doubt in his mind that 1t should be sustained. but in view of the long centihued practice and some spreco- dents. he felt that the House should itseik decide In order that it might do this, he sustained the point.
 Mir Candler appealed from the decision and by vote of Si to laS the chair was overruled. The amend naent appropria ting $23s,0e0 for the Tree distribution of ordinary seeds was then adopted as has been the practice for a number of years.
 On a point of order made by MT. Macon of Arkansas. the increase of si,oeo in the salary of Chief Forester pinchot, recommended by the Com naittee on Agriculture. was stricken cut.
 Representati- Lacey of Iowa, offered au amendment authorizing the secre- tary of agriculture to sell marketable and ripened timber from the forest re- serves to persons not belonging to any organization to control lumber prices.
 Alr. Lacey said the result of the erea- ton of great timber reserves has been to increase the price of lumber and ho urged that the government should offer lumber for sale at times when 1t will tend to force down prices which have bean inflated for the government to go on the bear side of the lumber market and play its strength against the lum- Der monopoly.
 Mr. Mondell of Wyoming, said. that the amendment was along proper ines and instste that the government should give some measure of relief to Fftxgaraid of New York remarked that tha legisIatidn was vital but said it ought to go further and remove the tariff on lumber so that Canadian lum- Der might be bought at reasonable prices instead of the fictitious prices maintained by the lumber trust"
 The amendment went out on a point of order.
 Mr. Crumpacker of Indiana. made several points of order against certain nortions of the bill especially against those features which seemed to him to change the existing pure food law. so far as the question of review was con- cerned MT. Foster of Vermont. who was in the chair. turning to MT. Wads- worth of New York. in charge of the bilI. asked:
 Does the gentleman from New York desire to be heard on these points of orderT'
 ssNo." replied Mir. Wadsworth. All points of order look alike to me-" a re- mark which evoked laughter "If the amendments to which objections are made" continued MT, Wadsworth. ''are not in last years bill, the points of or der are good" The chair sustained the points of or der.
 MT. Tawney of Minnesota, then of fered an amendment providing that no part of the sum appropriated for the Bureau of Chemistry shall be used for the payment of compensation or eX- penses to any officer or other person employed by any State. county or mu- nicipal government MT. Tawney said it was necessary to carry out the na tlonRl pure food law in conjunction
  that the National Government should not pay State agents
 T hope the amendment will not be adopted said MT. Wadsworth, be cause 1t will cost the Government very much more than now contemplated by the national pure food law
 Mfr. Mann of Illinois said the amend Iaent proposed was in distinct oppos- ton to the position generally taken by the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, and if the amendment was adopted, 1t would mean an in creased cost for the administration of the pure food law. .=.. ..
 "HIere now is the time" said MT. Tawuey, for the Federal Government to go on record in favor of the en- forcement of the pure food law by the general Government and the enforce naert of State laws by the State gov ernmsnt."
 The amendment was adopted, 66 to 20. Consideration of the bill was not concluded.
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