The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-09
CLAIMS FARMER
 IS NOT GETTING
 REPRESENTATION
Steering Committee" Is Composed of Millionaires
 Who Hail From Cities.

Washington, D. C., June 9-Criti- cising the majority of the House for failing to give any farming section representation on the powerful Re- publican steering committee and accusing the majority party of indis- criminate slashing of appropriations for agriculture, Representative Will liam I. Nelson, of Missouri. analysed how little had been done for the farmers of the country at this ses- sion of Congress.
 "I find from the recent speech of Representative Henry T. Rainey, of Illinois," said Representative Nelson, that the steering comm ittee' is con stituted of four men, one coming from Chicago, another Cincinnati and two others from Rochester, N. Y, and Worcester, Mass. They are re- puted to be millionaires, all of them. So the farmer, whose work places
 him in closest partnership with the
 Master of the Vineyard. is unrepre-
 sented on this master committee of Congress"
 As pointed out by MT. Nelson, the steering committee of the House
 virtually dictates all legislation. l. determines what bills shall be given
 the right of way, or what measures shall be side-tracked or put at the bottom of the calendar. For instance, when the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds wanted to re-
 port out public building bill at this session, the steering committee
 refused to o. K. the program and the bill was never reported
 Furnishing specific instances of the crippling of agriculture by a pars1- monious Republican policy. Repre- sentative Nelson continued:
 "A member on the majority side of this Chamber offered an amend
 ment to cut s10o,ooo from the appro- priation for hog-cholera control not withstanding that it is estimated that the loss from this disease in the year ending May l. 1919, amounted to D. s0o.o00 head of hogs, worth twice the entire amount carried in the Agricultural appropriation bill. The amendment which was adopted over | the protest of Democratic Members, was voted on in the House February 14, at which time 164 members vited for it, of these there were but I Democrats"
 'tWe lead the world in number and l value of registered and pure-bred l animals, more than so pure breeds 1 of live stock being found in the Unit | ed States Argentina, Brazil, Uru- l quay, and other South American l countries are, or soon will be, ac- | lively in the market for breeding | stock. With this thought in view, a | representative was last year sent by | the Bureau of Markets to South 1 America to look into conditions. This l man, practical farmer and exten- ) slve breeder of live stock, reported 1 and recommended that special live
 stock representatives be placed in l South America to assist in turning 1 trade to the livestock breeders of the United States, as England now has her representatives on the ground. Strange as it may seem. the l proposed appropriation, amounting to I but S25,0oo, was stricken from the
 bill on a point of order made by a Republican Member"
 1 Again, during the consideration
 of the Agricultural bill, Repubii-
 can Member from New York offered
 an amendment to take s5O0,000 from the cooperative agricultural eXten- l sion work. In contrast, we find MT
 Rubey, Democrat of Missouri, mak-
 ing a fight for an appropriation fol
 s30O,0O0 to provide means to protect the corn crop of the United States
 worth s3,934 ,00o,o 900, from the Euro
 pean corn borer, which threatens te
 cause losses amounting to millions
 On the roll call by which this amend 1 ment was defeated in the House after being adopted in committee