The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-01-03
Mr.. Candler's Removal from the
Committee on Agriculture.

The following staff special from
Washington to the Memphis Com
mercial Appeal, explains the re-
moval Of our able Congressman,
Hon. f. S. Gambler, Jr., from the
House Committee on Agriculture by
Speaker Cannon, despite the recon-
mendation Of minority leader John
Sharp Williams that he be retained
in that position. The Speaker de-
clared in effect that Mr.. Gambler
was too liberal towards the farmers
and that the Agricultural Depart
ment was becoming too expensive.
Thus the picture is presented Of
Mr.. Gambler 5 laudable vigilance in
the interest of the agriculturists re-
sulting in removal from a position
in which he was most able to serve
them, a circumstance that will be
remembered to his credit by con-
stituents Of the First Mississippi
District, as well as throughout the
country. Following is the dispatch
Speaker Cannon has confded to
one of the Democratic mem bers of
the Committee on Agriculture his
real reason for refusing to reappoint
Mr.. Gambler of Mississippi to that
committee, although Hon. John
Sharp Williams strongly recon-
mended the First District Congress
man for the assignment. The Speak
er has suddenly grown economical
and one of the Government De-
partments he has marked for the
practice of stricter economy is the
Department of Agriculture. As a
member of that important commit
tee, Mr.. Gambler has stood for lib
eral expenditures along the lines
that led to the greatest good to the
farmers throughout the country. In
fact Mr.. Candler's generous ideas
of helping the agricultural interests
caused Uncle Joe" to book him as
man Of too extravagant notions,
and herein lies, according to prom
inent Democratic mem Der Of the
Committee on Agriculture, the
Speakers reasons for not re-appoint-
ing him. To the Democrat in ques-
ton, Speaker Cannon gave the fol-
lowing subjects upon which Mr.
Gambler entertained too liberal and
broad notions: The Appalachian
Forest Reserve project; increasing
the government S aid to Agricultu-
raj and Mechanical Colleges: the
building of good roads and the wider
distribution of free seeds. Speaker
Cannon is straight out against the
Appalachian Forest Reserve propo-
sition. although the President
| has twice recommended it to Con-
gress, and every Governor of every
State east of the Mississippi and
south of the Potomac, and the rep
| resentatives In Congress from the
States favor it. The Speaker is also
against amplifying the aid already
given at the governments expense
| IN the free distribution of seed, and
in encouraging experimental work
notably in Agricultural and Me
chanical Colleges. He says that in
the last four or five years the an
nual expenditures under the De-
partment of Agriculture have grown
out of all proportion to the other
Departments, and that be had to
organize the committee on Agricul-
ture with view to keeping appro-
priations for this branch of the gov
eminent within economical bound
ares. MIR. Gambler friends ar,
unanimous in the opinion that h,
could not have incurred the preju
dice of the speaker of the House
in a worthier cause than the cham
pionship of the welfare of the farm
ers of the country.