The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1919-07-24
TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR JOB
FOR CONGRESSMAN LEVER

er OF the Federal Farm Loan Board
at a salary of $4,000 a year.
Mr., Lever will be confirmed in hi,
new position by the Senate within the
next ten days, after which time he
VIII resign from Congress and Gov
Cooper will call special election r.
NIL the vacancy thus effected.
I Congressman Lever has served in
mat capacity for eighteen years and
has established a reputation for
tathering and furthering coustruc-
tive legislation.
After being a member of the COM
mlttee on agriculture for ten wears,
he became chairman six wears apo
and under his guidance that commit
tee rose from a second to a first rate
committee, ranking along with the
House. He was held in universal cs-
teem by both the Democrats and Re-
publicans, as was evidenced in the
closing days in the last session of
Congress by the presentation to him
by the membership of the committee
OF silver service as testimonial of
their respect and confidence.
Among the notable pieces of lepis-
lation with which his name is init
mateiy associated may be mentioned: ::
The cotton futures act, regulating
the operations of the cotton future
exchanges of the country. He was
Jointly instrumental i'm amending this
act in the closing days of the last
session with the effect of far reach
ing beneficial results, both to the pro-
duce; and manufacturer of cotton.
He was the author of the item in
the appropriation bill providing for
the creation of the bureau of markets
which started with small sum of
money few years ago and with re-
stricted authority and has now devcl-
oped into an organization whose ac-
tivitIes cover the entire country and
promises in the course of time to
stabilize prices and at the same time
to furnish such accurate information
to producer and consumer of farm
products as will ultimately destroy
the wasteful and uneconomic system
of distribution Of farm products.
He was the author of the Federal
Warehouse act providing the ware
housing of staple farm products and
the issuance thereon of uniform
warehouse receipts which may be
negotiable in character. With the
amendment, which he attached to the
agricultural appropriations bill at this
session, Mr.. Lever believes that if
the producers will take advantage of
this act it will go far in solving the
problem of farm finance.
MIR. Lever reported from the COM
mlttce on agriculture the first bill
ever. favorably reported providing
and for Federal road building. This
bill passed the House but did not be-
come law, although in a modified
form it is now a law.
While the Republicans were in
charge of the House ten years ago,
he was joint author with Senator
Weeks of Massachusetts of the White
neutrality-suspicious. forest reserve
act, and although the Republicans
controlled the House he was in charge
of the fight for the proponents, of this
measure, recognition seldom be-
slowed.
He was the author of what is
known as the Smith-Lever act, the
measure which provided for farm
demonstration and home economies
work, system which is slowly but
surely revolutioniZing the agri-
culture of the country, and was a
member Of the joint committee of
the House and Senate which framed
the farm loan act.
In addition to this he was a mem
ber of the selected committee, organ
lzed at the request Of President Will
son in the last Congress, for the con-
sIderation of water power legislation.
That committee has already in this
session acted and the bill is now
through the House and pending in the
Senate.
He was the author of the first food
stimulation act and was the author
of the bill in the last session to make
good the government guarantee of
wheat
Possibly Mr.. Levers most notable
| Legislative achievement was his au-
thorship and conduct through the
House and conference of the fcod
control act. This was one of the very
| first war measures and carried au-
thority of such broad and sweeping