The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-07-02

APPROPRIATE
RECOGNITION OF THE SOUTH'S
AGRICULTURAL ClAlMS-PAT-
RONAGE JUDIcIOUSLY PLACED.

SOuln Will cOlHe III lOI Solle itlle ~
ward for its half century of democ
racy under the terms of the agricI
tural appropriation bill just passed b
congress. Usually it has been an al
icm of democratic politicians that nj
thing that the south wanted was urg
ent, because it would remain demo
cratic anyhow, and therefore it wa
money could be spared or distribute
what Jobs were on tap to section
which were more doubtful, and whicl
judiciously placed patronage nigh
win over to the democratic column
in the next election.
On the agricultural appropriation
bill, however, the southern represent
atives, and especially the southern
senator's, demanded appropriations
and got them. So noticeable were
the appropriations for cotton farmers
and of such frequent occurrence as
! the bill was perused, that Senator Nc
Cumber of North Dakota proposed
an amendment limiting the total eX-
penditures out of the more than 19
million dollars appropriated so that
not more than four-fifths of the en-
tire amount could be spent in the
cotton belt.
After long conference with Sena-
tor Gore, however, he withdrew his
amendment and ceased his opposition.
Shortly afterward an amendment
crept into the bill reading: "For
farm demonstration work and for con-
Quoting 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 the
ravages of the cotton boil weevil For
| this work the house of representa-
tives allowed S37S,2 When this
item came to the senate the outcry
against Rockefeller methods in Colo
rado and elsewhere was particularly
acute and a number of senators, in
cluding Kenyon of Iowa, made a
fight against the government coop
Grating with the General Education
Board, endowed by Rockefeller In
the past the board has been spending
considerable money in cooperating
with the agricultural department
along this line. AS a result of this
fight the appropriation was increased
by the senate to $67S,24O but a pro,
vision made that it should not be
used in connection with any sum con
tributed by the General Education
Board or any like organization.
Senator Knute Nelson's astonished
query, "if a Rockefeller dollar would
not prove just as efficacious in killing
boil weevils rs any other dollar,
brought the retort from Senator Lane
of Oregon that "if it killed with the
same deadly precision as in Colorado
it would be much more effective" Vor
the eradication of southern cattle
ticks an appropriation of 100000 was
made out of which, it was provided
$4,000 could be used for live stock
demonstration work, in cooperation
with the bureau of plant industries, in
areas already free of ticks. This was
another of the so-called sectional
appropriations which was bitterly op-
posed by many of the northwestern
senators and representatives. Their
greatest ire, however, was reused by
the appropriation of 100000 for eX-
periments and demonstrations in live
stock production in the cane sugar
and cotton districts. This appropr a.
tion was intended not only to be lin
tied to the extreme southern states,
but to the one particular state Of
Louisiana. The representative of that
state who had $4,000 inserted in the
house BILL and the senators who later
got the appropriation doubled, intend
ed the clause making the appropria-
tion to read only sugar cane dis
tricts." Their plea was that the fell
low members of their party had fore
ed through a tariff bill putting sugar
on the free list, which would put quite
crimp into the solidly democratic
state of Louisiana. In reparation
they urged that the government
should do something with a view TO
building up some profitable industry
TO take the place OF the one it was
destroying, to the end that all of the
people of the country might have
cheap sugar.
This was not all that was done for
the cotton states, however, for there
was an appropriation put into the bill
in the house for SSO,5S0 for investiga-
tion of the ginning. handling, grading