Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-03-01
CONGRESSMAN HIGGINS SPEAKS
FROM FLOOR OF CONGRESS-
AS Minority Leader Answered the
Speech of Chairman Moss on Asri-
cultural Appropriation Bill.
(Snecial TO The BuIletinl


| ing in the committee OF the whole,
having The agricultural appropriation
| Dill under consideration, Nh HlsSlns
| secured the Aoor and answered the
speech made Un Tuesday by Repre-
sentative Muss OF Indiana, chairman oI
the committee on expenditures OF the
department Of agriculture, Of which MI.
! Higgins is the minority leader.
Mr.. Higgins spoke as follows
/ han VentUred the nope that the
committee on expenditures IN the agIl-
cultural department would he aple
through lis deliberations TO accomplish
some good | had hoped that in the
investigation of the expenditure Of
public money by the department Of az
riculture that politics would not enter
and thai it was possible for four dem
ocrats and three republicans, an IN
themselves honorable men, to unite IN
a determination to set at the truth and
reac ha sound conclusion. But since
the speech of the gentleman from In
diana | have been compelled to ADAM
don that hope ] never was rash
enough to imagine that the chairman
ia committee Of this house would los
months in the preparation Of a report
sign and submit that report to this
| house. and then on the floor Of the
house attack his own child and at
tempt the destruction of his own crea-
/, ton But after listening to the speech
Of the gentleman from Indiana ! real
lied that ! presumed altogether toe
, much From the gentlemans speech
conclude that he entered upon the in
vestigation with certain fixed opinions
on the subject and that notWithstand
ing the evidence taken and his report
thereon those opinions remained with
= him. Such was not the state of minc
90 fIFaffl IN tor
Z l ask the membership of this house
b before reaching a positive opinion u
f read II record of the Wiley hearings
and the conclusions signed by all tht
members Of your committee.
Views Of the Committee.
e The views of the committee are eX-
pressed in the report and not in tht
, speech of the chairman of the commit
{ tee.
had believed that no one would
! contend that the purpose Of the enact
! ment of the pure food law was Of ne
! cessity to destroy. No one ought Il
! | contend for the autocTatic exercise @
the almost unlimited power of con
| fiscatiOn. subject TO no revision, anl
make if possible for one man, however
able. patriotic and learned he may be
!. to set himself up as the final arblte
subject to no control except the con
n illusions of his own research and tn
limitations Of his own judgment
The gentleman from Indiana sug
}, g. ,oIe a. tbe nnre food law the,
e r1,ret ba nrorosad nv CONGRESS- and no
u h,, +bn sacra+arv NJ agriculture.
cIo1Ienge tba eorrectness of the gentle
mans reasoning. Rather should II b
> stated that the executive proposes am
n corgrnes dfsnoses Ono Of The flinC
I ANS of tba secretary is through
|. nroner channels. to recommend t.
L rong7ass sch LEGISLATION and matters
3 tbaf he thinks If ought to consider
which bodv haze the sole mower O
l ,-it51i1irc tboea recommendations int,
r Ian If In H. irrdrrnent If sees ft. tn,
e ~, ,,,lss,,irs +o he attached 10 tn,
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q ric,Ilt,5ro en- far MS me- referee boart
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forn5ad NO, a statute which clearl
defines III nov-ers ana limitations an,
not mon tbe blanket provision Of eithe
e "a sfat,Ite Of lorre section 1880 or il
section 161 of the general statutes. oil
which its authority nov rests.
+ Apply 1t to Al Departments
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a 5ar@sr' ,7,l,l'te RI tha Government.
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r. lne muse pPoniee -
llgnt % d ~. &c to sutbor
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d ~ direetioY ~ President Roosevelt
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