Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-29
HOUSE FOR FOOD SURVEY
WITHOUT RECORD VOTE
Bill Appropriatcs Sff,77O,OOO for
Investigation of Resources and
Stimulation Of Production.
SIMILAR MEASURE IN SENATE
Agriculture Department Expects to
Present Fairly Accurate Estimate
of Conditions Within Three Weeks
After Law Is Effective.
tRy Associated pres..1

WASHINGTON. May 2S.-Thc nd
| ministration's food survey bill. first
OF the food control measures was
record vote. 1t appropriatcs sl4-
10000 for AN immediate investigation
OF the rountrys food resources and
for measures 10 stimulate production.
Senate
The Agriculture Department expects
TO present 81 fairly accurate estimate
Of food resources within three weeks
after tho bill is signed py the rrcsi-
dent Secretary Houston said day
AS soon as tho measure becomes a
law. the department will start it's
1900 employees and the 10000 vol
untary crop reporters 10 work on the
Investigation. The preliminary report
Ia be made within the three weeks
viii be supplemented with monthly re-
ports, and probably by further COM
plctc report within six months. if
necessary.
Material gathered will he turned over
to Herbert G. Hoover who was named
to cad food administration as soon
as the pending regulatory food meas
ure becomes law.
WOMAN REPRESENTATIVE
INSERTS AMENDMENT
The survey bill passed virtually as
ii came from the committee Miss
Rankin. the woman Representative
from Montana, inserted an amendment
i..l
of Agriculture TO use women in the
survey work whenever practicabIe
An amendment by Representative Nc
licnzie, Of Illinois. would make all
persons employed under the bill
liable Ia military service and another
would permit citizens 60 refuse to go
more than 500 miles from their homes
or places of business To testify in a
food inquiry
AS originally drawn. the bill car
r;ed more than $4,000. 600. but COM
mtice changes reduced the total.
These arc the principal amounts an
propriated:
For seeds s5.,iS,000: education for
increasing production by waste elm
ination and conservation S4SIS4OO:
general survey, S2.5:2 900; eradication
improvement work. sSS5.OOO: misccl-
lancous items. $547, 400, and eradication
OF plant diseases and insects, sf4l.0OO
LEVER CHARGES REPUBLICANS
WITs RAISING FALSE ISSUE
Many Republicans. including former
Speaker Cannon. repeatedly attacked
The measure as wastcful particularly
AS 10 the survey feature Chairman
Lever. of the Agriculture Committee.
declared hcatedly in closing debate to-
day that they were raising false
issue.
IT is not economy that these gentle
men desire to promuleatc that ac-
counts for the opposition To the hili."
he said. 1T may be that the opposi-
tion can be accounted for because we
are carrying power in the hin Ia 20
into storage concerns. and find out
who is boarding and specializing"
The Senate devoted the day to de-
batting and adopting an amendment by
Senator McKcllar reducing the ap.
propria ion for the eradication OF the
cattle tick and other live stock dis
eases from s2.0S3.001 TO sS75.O0o \
motion to eliminate I'm appropriation
OF S2.5O0.000 for seeds TO be sold to the
farmers at cost by the Department OF
Agriculture and for tho eradication OF
plant diseases was pending when tho
Senate adjourned.