The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-06-25
COTTON BELT gets
|. LIBERAL SHARE OF
APPROPRIATIONS
SOLID SOUTH REWARDED FOR ITS
CONSISTENT ADHERENCE TO
DEMOCRACY.
HERETOFORE HAS BEEN GIVEN.
Thu LEAST CONSIDERATION
Four Hundred Thousand Dollars 40.
propriated For Eradication of South.
ern Cattle Tick-live Stock Produc.
ton in Sugar Districts.

Washington, June %. = The Solid |
South will come in for some little re-
ward for its half century of Democracy
under the terms of the agricultural
appropriation bill just passed by Con-
gress. Usually it has been an axiom
of Democratic politics that nothing
that the South wanted was urgent, be-
cause it would remain democratic
anyhow, and therefore it was far more
important to spend what money could
be spared, Or distribute what jobs were
on tap, to sections which were more
doubtful and which judiciously placed
patronage might win over to the
Democratic column in the next cleo
ton.
On the agricultural appropriation
bill, however, the Southern represen-
tatives and especially the Southern
Senators, demanded appropriations
and got them. Sol noticeable were
the appropriations for the cotton farm
ers, and of such frequent occurrence
as the bill was perused, that Senator
McCumber, of North Dakota, proposed
an amendment, limiting the total ex-
penditures out of the more than nine
teen millions appropriated, so that not
more than four-fifths of the entire
amount could be spent in the cotton
belt.
For Boys and Girls.
After a long conference with Sena
tor Gore, chairman of the agriculture
committee, however, he withdrew his
amendment, and ceased his opposition
Shortly afterward an amendment crept
into the bill reading: For farm dem
onstration work and for conducting
, boys and girls clubs outside of the
cotton belt, 100000"
The prize Southern appropriation
was for the study and demonstration
of the best methods of meeting tn,
ravages of the cotton boil weevil. Fol
this work the House of Representa-
tives allowed $37S,240. When thi!
item came to the Senate the outer!
} against Rockefeller methods in Colo
RADIO and elsewhere was particular.
acute, and a number of senators in
Guiding Kenyon, of Iowa, made figh
against the government co-operatin.
with the General Education Board
endowed by Rockefeller. In the pas
the board had been spending consider
able money in cooperating with thu
Agricultural Department along Thu
line. AS the result of this fight, thu
appropriation was increased by thu
Senate to $67S,240 but a provision
made that it should not be used il
connection with any sum contributed
by the General Education Board, o
any like organization.
Tick Eradication.
Senator Knute Nelson's astonishe,
: query eff a Rockefeller dollar woul
not prove just as efficacious in killin
boil weevils as any other dollar
brought the retort from Senator Ian
of Oregon, that "if it killed with tn
same deadly precision as in Colorad
it would be much more effective" Fo
, ticks an appropriation of 100000 wa
made, out of which, it was provide,
= $4,000 could be used for live stoc
| demonstration work, in cooperate
, with the Bureaus of Plant Industrie
t in areas already freed of ticks. TIL
;. was another of the socalled sectional
appropriations which was bitterly Of
D posed by many of the Northwestern
1 senators and representatives. The
J. greatest ire, however, was reused b
e the appropriation of 100000 for O.
a periments and demonstrations In liv
stock production in the cane, sugs
q and cotton districts. This appropri
|. ton was intended not only to be limi
n ed to the extreme Southern state
but to the one particular state
q Louisiana. The representative Of TIL
a state, who had $4,000 inserted in Il
q House Bill, and the senators, wi
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