The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-18

| ibuster in the senate" continued Con-
gresham Lever. THE house allowed
an increase of $1,000, 600 over the nor
NAL appropriation and the senate add
ed another $3.000,000 to it. Then il
all failed when the senate Republicans
! filibustered against It,
1.-THE appropriations for federal as
sistance to every kind of farm activity
such as farm demonstration work. and
the fighting of all pests and animals
vegetable and fruit diseases We're made
very liberal in the bill considered by
the last congress and passed by the
house. For instance there was $780,
900 in the bill to eradicate the corn
borer and similar sums to fight all the
other pests"
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia. a
member of the senate agriculture COM
mittee expressed his belief that the
increased appropriations for farm DEM
onatration work in all the states was
the greatest thing done by the last con-
gress for the farmers. Senator Hoke
Smith comes from an agricultural Sec
ton and takes great interest in all
farm matters before congress.
He was, with Congressman Lever,
the joint author of the Smith Lever
bills passed during the last six years.
education and rehabilitation. Smith
and Lever were also the CO. authors of
the amendment to the cotton futures
act eliminating several of the lower
grades ofcotton referred to previously
in this article.
Congress passed first in 1914 a
measure providing for federal assistance
to the agricultural colleges on a large
scale and for the employment of agri-
cultural experts from the colleges to
go out into the country and give dem
onstrations Of those truths worked out
in the colleges and agricultural expert
ment stations" said Senator Hoke
Smith.
II believe the immense response
made by the farmers to the govern
ments appeal for increased production
of foodtuffs was a direct result of the
great good that these travelling agri-
cultural teachers have done and the
system of educating the farmer that
has been carried on by the agricultural
department.
FiIIibuster Killed Bill.
The house added $1,500,O0O to the
regular appropriation for this farm
work in this years bill,
and the senate added $4,000, 900 more to
it. But 1t failed owing to the Repub-
I1Can ulIltDuSVof. nope we can pass
20 favorable bill in the extra ses-
s4on.
Senator Hoke Smith said the cotton
to the wheat price fixing
bill which amends the cotton futures
act will be OF great benefit to the cot
ton growers. aiding them In obtaining
better prices for cotton. The cotton
growers are badly In need OF such as
sistance, he said.
1.-The Southern cotton farmers suffer-
ed much more from thu war than any
OF our other farmers" continued Sena-
tor Smith. Back in 1914 when the
European war began the expectation
OF cotton was stopped and the price
fell disastrously low because consid-
cradle part of the market was cut off.
Cotton was hit hard again In 1918 when
the war trade board undertook to sta
bilize the price OF cotton In the
and put the embargo on, seri-
ously interfering with the regular
course Of the market. The embargo Is
still on.
THE South may have been In the sad
die during the war but the Southern
farmers suffered more than any Of the
others"