Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-05-19
A RESOLUTION is UNANIMOUSLY
ADOPTED AT CONFERENCE
OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
ADOPT OTHER RESOLUTIONS
A Second Million is Recommended to
Be Available For Emergency Use
In Protection From Misss-
sippi FIoodWaters and
Third For Repairing
OF Levees.

Washington.-At a conference of
representatives from the flooded areas
resolution has been unanimously
| adopted recommending the appropria-
tion of 81, 600 900, or more If necessary
for the purchase of seed for replant-
ing. This money Is to be made avail
able at once. The resolution leaves
the amount of the appropriation to
the judgment Of the secretary of agri-
culture, who is also to disburse the
appropriation. The first proposal pro-
vided that Congress should make this
proposed financial aid in the form of a
loan, to be secured by chattel mortga-
ges. no other security could be
given.
Representatives from the lower val
ley, including Garrett Of Tennessee,
Driver Of Arkansas, Wilson and AS
well Of Louisiana. objected to such
an arrangement, claiming that it
would be a crime to demand security
from tenant farmers already groaning
under crushing burdens as result of
flood damages. Whereupon a sub
resolution was offered providing that
Congress appropriate fund for the
purchase and distribution of free seed
for replanting. This carried unani-
mously. Gov. Neff of Texas has wired
| that the sum OF $3.50 900 would be nec-
essary 10 reseed the flooded areas Of
that state alone In Grimes County
Texas, 1t was stated that 33 carloads
OF corn are needed to replant crops al
ready destroyed
Two other resolutions relating 10
levees were adopted. The first and
paramount one provides:
Resolved by the Senate and House
OF Representatives Of the United
Stats of America, In congress assem-
bled, that there be and Is hereby ap-
propriated out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated
the sum of $4,000 to be immediate
ly available as an emergency fund for
expenditure by the Mississippi River
commission for the purpose of protect
ing life and property by repairing and
rebuilding levees, whether under the
present jurisdiction of the said COM
mission or not damaged by the recent
flood on the Mississippi River, its
tributaries and outlets.
The second resolution provides:
Resolved by the Senate and House
OF Representatives of the United
States of America, in Congress as
sembled, that there be appropriated
out of any money in the treasury, not
otherwise appropriated, the sum of
one million dollars or so much there
of as may be necessary to be immedi-
ately available as an emergency fund
to be expended by the Mississippi
River commission for repairing and
restoring any levees, which are or
may be brought within the provisions
of the "Act to provide for the control
of floods Of tae Mississippi river and
for other purposes" approved March
/, 1917, as have been destroyed or
seriously injured by the recent floods
of the Mississippi River, provided.
that no part Of such sum shall be ex-
pended by the Mississippi River COM
mission for the repairing or restoring
any levee until bonds of standing ap-
proved by the commission shah have
been deposited with the commission
s. fficient in amount to cover not less
than one-third OF the cost OF the work
involved or until there be deposited
with the commission penal bond OBJ
ligating the local interests protected to
make payment within three years
from the date of completion Of the
work by said commission Of one-third
OF the cost OF the work as may be
determined by the commission. The
first resolution Is regarded as Of
greater Importance because Chief Of
Engineers Beach has ruled that the
Mississippi River commission can ex-
pend money only on levees included
within the scope of the Original flood
control act Of 1917. and In view Of
this ruling no repair work can be done
on levees in the Missouri district or
any other levees falling within the
same outlawed class.
The resolutions adopted will be pre-
sented to the appropriation commit
tee Of the house for immediate consid-
sration.