The Monticellonian., 1918-04-12


 iaw upon the shoulders of the secre- tary of the treasury. the burdens of the secretary of state are infnitesi- mal."
 Further along in the discussion Nor ris remarked that the secretary of the treasury was having his own way and a motion to change a provision In a pending bill could not prevail. be cause we have got Into the hab.. of doing things according to the rules approved hy the secretary of the treas ury. and I suppose that we will con- tinue along that line"
 Congressman Webb of North Caro- lima. chairman of the Judiciary com mittee. became the sponsor of a bill which has appeared Tn many forms during the last ten years. usually in- troduced "by request" indicating that the member introducing it did not care to father it. and which shows the per sistence of one particular individual. Many years ago It may have been quarter of fl century, a man began be-
 
 lishment of a bureau for the study of criminal. pauper and defective classes. In one form or another the bill has been presented In every congress and at times q considerable amount of ar- gument has been printed in it's favor. It is rather remarkable that this bu- reau has not been created. for it seems I5. ok +Lo world to create bureau with salary list attached The Webb bill provides that the chief of the bureau shall re- ceive n salary of only S4,000, and the clerical force brings the total sum up to only S100o0. The man who has been behind this scheme all these years ought to know if would be difficult to gel hCseau established with a meas ly S1000o. If he had made it S50o00 or S1o0000, he might have had some chance of getting it through congress.
 Changed conditions in the Southern states as regards agriculture came up for comment during consideration of the agricultural appropriation bill. and it was pointed out that the South was now self-supporting in the way of rais- ing foods. while only a short time ago it had to buy large quantity of It's foods from the North and West. The time was in the South when they had three great staples. cotton. eane and tobacco, and regarded other agricul- tural products as rather incidental But now the South produces wheat corn, potatoes. vegetables and fruits. and, in the meat line. cattle. hogs and chickens.
 During the discussion Senator WIl- Hams of Mississippi gave as one req son for the change the offering of prizes at county fairs, and gave indl- vidual instances of how corn clubs had been organized and boys had been engaged in intensive farming While that has helped some, the real reason for the changed agricultural conditions in the South. It was brought out, Is the failure of some crops, the possibll- ity of losses on staples. and the propa- ganda which has been carried on by the agricultural department for many years pointing out the advantages of diversified farming. and also showing Southern farmers that their soils were good for something besides few standard products.
 Eulogies of dead members of con- gress are good deal of farce. Tn the house they are held on Sundays with few people in the galleries and sometimes not more than half dozen members of the house present. The ceremonies are usually slurred over and sometimes the members who ap- pear to have addressed the house were not even on the floor And yet there are occasions when those eulogies bring out interesting facts. Such was the case in regard to the late Eben- ezer I. Hill of Connecticut. Although very few members eu1ogized hirn. the character of the men who participated showed that he had won a high place fin the house of representatives. Speak CT Clark, Majority Leader Kitchn of North Carolina. Minority Leader Mann of Illinois. and Congressman Fordney of Michigan. the ranking Republican member of the ways and means con- mittee, were among the men who paid their last tribute to Mfr. Hill.
 Congressman Kitchin. In speaking of Hill. said "If we except the gentle man from Illinois. Mir Mann, the in- comparable minority leader doubt If any other man in the house in the lest fifteen years was as tireless Il worker or as diligent a student of legls- lation as Mr. Hill."
 Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi comes right out and says what he thinks when he becomes aroused by debate that takes place in the senate Recently there had been more or less comment on what the country was suffering on account of the war After listening some time the Mississippi senator "eut loose" and said what he thought. In the course of his remarks he made this statement:
 "People suffering on account of the war, Labor suffering Labor never had as much money in the life of the world. here or anywhere else Farm CTS suffering They never made as much money out of their cattle and corn and oats and wheat and cotton and hogs since agriculture came Into existence. here or anywhere else. as they are making now"