Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-21

of agriculture. The cooperative ag
ricultural extension bill provides for
the expenditure during the next nine
years of $4,000 900, and in that period
the different states are to eXpend
$4,000, 900. This will place in each
rural district throughout the country
two expert farm demonstrators. The
warehouse bill will enable farmers to
store their crops for higher prices, and
warehouse receipts can be used as col
lateral security in the borrowing of
money.
The good roads bill provides for ex-
penditure of $75,000,000 in improving
rural post roads, in order that the
farmers may save time, machinery and
equipment in transferring their pro-
ducts to market. The farmers also
have been exampted by the Democratic
party from the operation of the
Sherman antitrust law, while engaged
in their legitimate business
THE UNDERWOOD BILL.
Concerning the Underwood tariff
bill. stated Mr.. Nugent, one of the
matters to which Senator Borah made
considerable reference. declaring that
there was not single product Of the
southern fields that was not amply
protected by it, while every product of
the north was exposed to foreign COM
petition he answered, ''in the southern
states there were produced in 1915
over 1000, 900, 900 bushels OF corn
which Is ore third of all the corn rails
ed in the country and corn is on the
free list About $50 10000 COO bushels of
wheat in 1915 were raised in the
southern states, more than one
eighth of the entire production Of the
nation and wheat is on the free list.
The Statesman quotes Senator Borah
as saying: The duty has been taken
from hay. corn, wheat and barley,
leaving them exposed to foreign com
petition. Under paragraph 1873 of the
Underwood bill, a duty of Is cents per
bushel is imposed on barley. and I'M
der paragraph 205 duty of 81 per ton
on hay. No man is warranted in seek
ing to array the north against the
south, particularly by statements I'M
founded in fact. Judge Hughes also
has sought to rekindle the dead en-
bers of sectional hatred, and because
of that fact is not big enough to be the
president of a reunited country"
1.-THE figures l have used with re-
HPctl W CIOP DIOuuCIlOU VI lnt bOulH-
ern states. were taken from the
Worlds Almanac, 1915. And the states
that l refer to as being southern states
are: Maryland Virginia, West Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Kentucky, Florida. Tennessee,
Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas,
New Mexico Arizona, Mississippi and
Louisiana"
RIVERS AND HARBoRs.
Mr.. Nugent made light of Senator
Borah's criticism of the rivers and
harbors bill. stated that he had taken
data from the Democratic text book
and found that "a of those so-called
creeks, referred to by Mr.. Borah, for
the improvement of which money had
been appropriated. carry more than
100000 tons of freight annually of
the value Of more than $4,000 900 and
that 16 of those so-called creeks car
ry over 100000 tons of freight an
nually valued at more than $1S3,000,-
900, thus demonstrating that the said
creeks are important channels of
commerce. On this subject Mr.. Nu-
gent said:
The appropriation for rivers and
harbors under the Democratic admin
istration l learn from the campaign
books amounted to $41.700.000 and
under the Republican administration
in 1913 the appropriation for the same
purpose was SAL ,073.000 in addition to
contracts carrying $6,800,000 more.
making a total of $47.SoO.000 in round
numbers which is Approximately &c.
100000 more than was appropriated by
the Democrats. The government en-
gineers recommended that the appro-
priation this year should be $4,000. 900
and that the property to be protected
and works to be completed represent
ed an investment % hundreds of mil
lions of dollars expended by a Repub-
lican administration"
THE EIGHTH HOUR LAW.
Concerning the Adamson BILL he
said The railroad bro.herhoods
made no demand either upon the presi-
dent or upon congress. Their de-