Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-29
FOOD SURVEY ACT
PASSED BY HOUSE
Immediate Investigation Of
Resources; $l4,000,000
Appropriated.
URGE SENATE TO ACT QUICK
Officials Plan to Seek Out
Hoarders; Wasteful, Assert
Many Republicans.

WASHINGTON, May 2S-The ad-
mlnistratiun's food survey bill was
passed 10y the house today without It
record vote. II approprIates $I4,710.-
600 for an immediate investigation OF
the country's food resources and for
measures TO stimulate production. A
similar bill is under debate in the SEN
ate and may be passed there Wednes-
day.
The agriculture department expects
to present fairly accurate estimate
of food resources within three weeks
after the bill is signed by the presi-
dent Secretary Houston said today.
As soon as the measure becomes a law
the department will start its 1900
employees and the 10000 voluntary
crop reporters To work on the inVest
cation. The preliminary report To be
made within three weeks will be sup
plcmented with monthly reports and
probably by further complete report
within six months II necessary.
Material 10 Hoover.
Material gathered will be turned
over to Herbert &. Hoover, who will
ne named to head food administra-
tion as soon as the pending regulatory
food measure becomes law.
The survey bill passed VII tualiy as
II 'dllF Otii Allt NililllllAAfts Niia0
Rankin. the woman representative
from Montana. inserted an amendment
which would require the department
of agriculture to use women in the
survey whenever practicable. An
amendment by Representative Me
Kenzie of Illinois would make all per-
sons employed under the bill liable
to military service and another would
permit citizens to refuse to go more
than three hundred miles from their
homes or places of business to testify
in food inquiry.
Cut Appropriation.
AS originally drawn the bill carried
more than SlS,0O0,0OO but committee
changes reduced the total. These are
the principal amounts appropriated:
For seeds $5,77S,0O0. education for
increasing production by waste elm
ination and conservation s4.34S. 400:
general survey s2.522 000: eradication
of live stock diseases and live stock
Improvement work sSS5.000; miscel-
laneous items $4,000, and eradica-
ton of plant diseases ana insects
$t4l,0O0.
Many republicans including former
Speaker Cannon repeatedly attacked
the measure as wasteful. particularly
as to the survey feature. Chairman
Lever OF the agricultural committee
declared heatedly in closing debate
they were raising a false issue.
Seek Hoaricrs.
1T is not economy that these
gentlemen desire to propagate" he
said 1T may he that the opposition
can he accounted for because we arc
carrying power in the bill to go into
storage concerns and find out who is
boarding and who is specializing"
The senate devoted the day u de-
batting and adopting an amendment 10y
Senator McKellar reducing the appro-
priation for the eradication of the
cattle tick and other live stock dis
eases from S2,0S3,000 to SS25,000, the
amount carried for the purpose in the
house bill. A motion to eliminate an
appropriation of $2,500,00O for seeds
to be sold to the farmer at cost by
the department of agriculture and foi
the eradication of plant diseases was
pending when the senate adjourned.