The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-23
GAS it Appears to
Your Congressman
By John r. Murdoch

! The Interior Department ApprO-
priation bill occupied twice as
much time in the House as its
sponsors expected it to take, there
/ by crowding out of consideration
the Agricultural Appropriation Bill
during the week ending March Is.
The Agricultural Bill is scheduled
for Thursday and Friday, March 23
and "a. Both the Interior APP
preparation Bill and the Agri-
cultural Bill are SO lengthy, con-
sisting of a hodgepode mixture of
many appropriation items, that IL
is impossible in a brief space to-
even list the items that pertain
directly to Arizona.
Live stock men in Arizona have
requested suitable appropriations
for predatory animal control, game
protective associations have sug-
gested that more than the budget
estimate of one million dollars
should be given over to that work,
and a number of cotton farmers
feel that more should be spent in
the control of cotton insects and
the pink boil worm. Although
went before the Committee and
urged a generous appropriation for
treating the pink boil worm and for
predatory animal control, and
recommended that all Of the excise
duty on guns, ammunition. and
such sporting goods be turned back
for the preservation of wild life,
have a feeling that the agricultural
bill will be cut deeply with respect
to these items. The budget recon-
mended one million dollars for the
preservation of wild life, $650,0O0
for predatory animal control, and
SASS to treat pink boil worm. II
will be fortunate if the approprla-
ton comes through with these
budget suggestions. A leading Texas
Congressman declared that he
would attempt an amendment on
the floor of the House to increase
the budget suggestion for pink boil
worm control.
AS a Westerner I feel that the
Forest Service and public roads
have been inadequately provided
for. Perhaps one reason for cult
ing down some of these smaller
items which particularly effect
Arizona is the very large appropria-
ton made for parity payments on
certain agricultural crops. Our cot
ton farmers should profit some of
this.
Many religious groups, some
fraternal organizations, and other
bodies have written me from Arl-
IONA protesting against extending
the Social Security plan so as to
cover employees of such organi-
cations. l have passed these on to
the Ways and Means Committee
and I am assured by Congres man
John Mccormack that no att mpt
~ be made at the present me
to extend the Social Security tax
or provision to religious, charit-
able, or non-profit organizations,
nor to agricultural labor or do
nestle help. At this moment 1T
seems that the Ways and Means
Committee is bordering the matter
of reporting out H. r. which has
the Townsend backing, or R. H.
III which is called the General
Welfare Act of 1889, or recommend
ing certain increases in the present
Social Security provision for aged
citizens. Just now it looks as
though that Committee may report
out H. r. 2.
Many suffers from asthma living
in Arizona have written me con-
corning a certain medical treatment
which they have been receiving by
mail asking that that particular
treatment be exempt from the &C
ion of the law passed by the last
Congress. On inquiry find that the
particular product inquired about
by these asthma patients may be
shipped in interstate commerce
after June 80, 1889, when the new
food and drug act goes into effect,
provided that the truth of the con-
tents is placed on the label
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