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AGREE
TO NO COMPROMISE
Party Conference Threatens
Special Session in Block
ing Supply Bills.
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stock for agricultural credit corpora
lions not to exceed $4,000 900 of the
$4,000 900 fund appropriated for seed,
feed and fertilizer loans was also unan-
imously approved. 1t is understood that
If this method of assistance is TO be
effective, it must be quickly enacted
into law, since the time is near at hand
when the farmers who might avail
themselves of its terms must make their
arrangements for credit.
Want Sanitation Fund.
Fifth, the item of 100000 placed
by the Senate in the deficiency appro-
priation bill for rural sanitation, etc,
was approved as a wise and indispensa-
BILE precaution against epidemics and
diseases due to undernourishment and
other conditions which threaten dis
treSSed communities.
Sixth, the amendment to the agri-
culture appropriation bill to reappro-
pirate moneys collected on the seed,
feed and fertilizer appropriation of
1880 and to make it available for
1881 in the States named in the or
iginal appropriation was also included
among the necessary measures for re-
lief which it is insisted by members of
the conference shall be enacted.
This statement is made in order
that it may be well understood that
the provisions referred to, or acceptable
substitutes therefor, represent the min
imum of emergency measures which, n
the opinion of their advocates, are
by existing conditions in order
to avoid the necessity for an extra
session of the Congress. 1t is not in
tended to prevent the presentation of
or inSistence upon other measures.
Vote Against Amendment.
The House votes today on the $685.
100000 Robinson amendment to the
Interior Department appropriation bill,
when an effort will be made to send
that measure to conference. After con-
Guiding its hearings of Red Cross off,
Gals and others, the House Appropria-
tons Committee yesterday voted Is to
II to reject the Robinson amendment
The vote was along party lines.
The Republican leaders of the House
today are rallying their forces to defeat
an expected Democratic proposal that
the House conferees be instructed to
agree to the Robinson amendment.
They believe they will be able to defeat
the Democratic proposal. If they do,
the House and the Senate will be en-
gagged in another bitter struggle.
The Democratic conference of the
Senate also determined that the Demo-
Gratis would not compromise or permit
to be defeated the proposal to distribute
20,0C0,000 bushels of wheat held by the
Federal Farm Board to the drought
stricken and unemployed, offered by
Senator Capper, Republican of Kansas,
and inserted in the War Department
bill by vote of the Senate.
Stand by Other Measures.
The conference decided also to stand
fast by proposal to appropriate So
100000 for rural sanitation in the
drought area and for a $2,500,000 re-
volving fund to be used in the States of
North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida and Alabama, the so-called
George Smith amendment to the agri-
culture bill.
Another proposal for S5,O0O,OOO to be
loaned for the organization of relief
corporations in the drought area, offer
ed by Senator Robinson of Arkansas
and placed in the War Department bill
yesterday also will be insisted upon by
the Democrats. This last $5,000,O0O is
to be obtained from the $45 ZOO. 600 ap-
preparation for the drought area.
All of these proposals are contained
in appropriation bills and have been
added as Senate amendments to those
bills
When the House met today it was
with the understanding that Represent
alive Cramton of Michigan, in charge of
the Interior Department bill, would call
that measure up and seek to have a
special conference. Under a unanimous
consent agreement there will be two
hours debate, an hour on each side.
Two Proposals Offered.
Two proposals to instruct the con-
ferees of the House on the Interior bill
to recede and concur in the Robinson
amendment appropriating $25, 900, 900 to
buy food and other essentials and to
distribute them to the people were ready
for submission. One by Representative
Taylor of Colorado, Democrat, merely
proposes to strike from the Robinson
amendment the American National Red
Cross, which has announced that it
cannot handle the fund, and to provide
that the money shall be expended by
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