The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-21
MOVE BILLS ALONG
At LIVELY RATE
Virginia Congressman Working
to Get Appropriation Meas
ures Before House.
Special TO The Times Dispatch,

Washington. u. c.. December 20
lust now two Of Virginia's best liked
Congressman-Lamb ana Hay-are
running neck and neck to see which
can get his big appropriation bill com
plcted and in shape to be presented
to the House first Captain Lamb Is
holding daily sessions of the Com
of the agricultural question Is rccciv-
inS consideration. The different bu-
reaus are appearing through their
chiefs, and they are submitting their
wants TO the Virginia chairman In or
der that their Christmas stockings
may not he empty when the general
distribution of government funds is
made little later on. All through
the day and along when the shade s
Of darkness begin to fall, Captain
Lamb and his associates may be seen
at their task Of figuring out how much
II is going TO take for the next year
TO get rid of the cotton boil weevii
ana other crop destroying parasites;
to extend the scope of the farm demon
stration schools: to give the people
better highways: to improve the great
tobacco and other crops; to teach the
people the value of diversifica ton. and
II hundred other subjects OF like i'm
portancc, They know that it is going
more. possibly more. this year TO sat
isfy the farming interests of the coun-
try. and that is the reason they are
figuring so closely down to the very
last cent. CAPTAIN Lamb and the other
members Of this committee arc saying
very little about their work. hut tho
sign committee meeting" as one
passes the captains committee room
door gives an inlSlinS of what Is going
on inside Very little of a public ma
turc is kept secret long in Washing
ton Not even the state deliberations
OF the august Senate in It's most solemn
moments long remain from the ears OF
those on the hunt for news. However
that may be. il is said that IL Congress
man Hay gets his bill in ahead of
Captain Lamb he mus: hurry to do so.
Hay IL Very Busy.
Hut in the meantime what is Mr..
Hay doing" He went to work just as
soon rs tho present, session began get
ting the big military appropriation bill
in shape. There arc countless items
in this measure. dealing with condi-
tons reaching from Alaska to the
Philippines. which must he closely
scrutinized and examined before final
action is taken. Just now most in
tereRt centres around Mr.. Hay. Con
eral Bell and Major General AIMS
oi'ii, Decause OF the ihcI Ihdt Inc Two
latter arc said not to agree upon some
very important details OF the pending
measure.
Kat back of all this lies the fact
that the passage ny the House of the
Sherwood dollar-a day pension bill has
gotten some people here and else
where to believe that inasmuch as
there can he no reduction of tariff
duties without seriously drainin.
Uncle Sans tiIls, and no raising of
duties without having the charge laid
at the door of the Democrats. that
there IL only one way to meet the $75.-
100000 gouge caused by the pension
hill, and that is to lop off a few
million dollars from all OF the big ap-
preparation bills. It has been said that
should this be done. taking OFF some
thing like 100000 from each OF the
big money bills. that would Just about