Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-03-13
EXPERIMENT WORK
SEEMS ASSURED
ORIGINAL APPROPRIATION ASKED
MAY BE INCREASED.
Sugar Growers Hope to Get $4,000
for Experiment Station - Texas
Senator's May Amend Appropria-
don Bill to Cover Amount.

WHlic the sugar cane growers Oh
the valley will welcome a congress
ional appropriation of $4,000, for
sugar experimentation here under
the direction of the government,
many of them are beginning to feel
that the amount originally asked for
Is decidedly too small to make the
work complete and satisfactory. 1t
is felt that the salary of a thorough
ly qualified man, an expert in the
sugar industry, will hardly be COW
cred by the sum of $4,000. AT least
when the salary is paid there will be
little left for other purposes. Some
of the growers have written to
Congressman Garner frankly stating
the case 10 him His answer, given
below in a letter to R. c. Wharton,
SECRETARY of the Rio Grande Cane
Growers Association, will be read
with much interest. He evidently
believes it will be possible to secure
the funds needed, on the lines he
indicates
Washington, ID. c.
March 7th, 1912.
MIR. r. c. Wharton,
Sec. Rio Grande Cane Growers
ASsociation
Brownsville, Texas.
My Dear Sir:
| have delayed answering your let
ter requesting me to try and secure
an appropriation Of $4,000 for
sugar demonstration work in the
Rio Grande Valley for the reason
that when your letter was received
the agricultural bill had been re-
ported BY the committee, and was
pending in the House, and hoped
10 secum an amendment providing
for this zwork
interviewed DR.. Galloway. chief
of the Bureau of Plant Industry,
and he told me that $4,000 would
be- all the money he would need to
conduct this work. He being the
officer who would have control OF
this demonstration and experimental
worR.oT Xas,, Of course, governed by
hisRdstimate. .aninrrm
Blder separate cover | am now
sending you the Congressional Rec
ord Of Saturday, March End, and
call your attention to pages 287S
and 2S79; also Congressional Record
Of Tuesday, March 5th, and refer
you to pages 295O-51-52, and 1858
60-61-62, which will explain the
situation.
If you and your people had called
my attention to this matter earlier
| would have had little or no diff
Guilty in securing the appropriation
from the Committee on Agriculture,
but after a bill is reported 10 the
House, the committee deems it its
duty to sec that it is not amended
if they can prevent It,.
If your association can get Sena-
tor Culberson or Senator Bailey to
present this amendment to the Sen
ate appropriation committee and
have Ii put on as an amendment to
the House bill there will be no
trouble about it's becoming a law, as
| have the promise of the conferees
on the part of the House that they
will agree to it if it is put on by the
senate. | have marked on page 1859
the amendment that Should be put
on In the senate
suggest that you and all in the
Valley interested in this matter
write Immediately to both Senator
Culberson and Senator Bailey urging
them to offer this amendment to the
Agricultural bill. and secure its
adoption by the senate.
AS stated above, will use my in
| fluence to see that the House con
ferees agree to the senate amend
ment.
| am sorry that | did not succeed
in putting this on in the House, but
as stated hereinbefore, your request
| did not come in time for me to sub
NIT 1t to the committee, and it i:
| quite difficult to amend it in tn,
| House. especially when it is al
amendment in which only one dis
trict Is interested, and in which
| extraneous matters, such as th'
sugar tariff, etc, are brought int
the discussion.
| | also suggest that you make al
earnest effort to get the A. & NJ Col
lege, through its agricultural bureau
to join the U. S. Government in max
ing these demonstrations. None!
has been appropriated by the legis
lature that can be used for thi
purpose. and there is no reason VIII.
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