A BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT ENDING JUNE 30, 1914 FEBRUARY 14, 1913 WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1913 521 Z2 19134 AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATION BILL. COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, UNITED STATES SENATE, Washington, D. C., Friday, February 14, 1913. The committee met at 10.30 o'clock a. m. for the purpose of considering bill H. R. 28283, entitled "An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen." Present: Senators Burnham (chairman), Warren, Guggenheim, Crawford, Bradley, Gronna, Brady, Gore, Chamberlain, Smith of Georgia, and Gardner. Also Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, and Mr. A. Zappone, Chief of the Division of Accounts and Disbursements of the department. The CHAIRMAN. Senators, the committee will come to order. The meeting to-day is called for the purpose of considering the agriculture appropriation bill. The bill came yesterday morning, and we have made all possible haste to get it before the committee, and we have with us the Secretary of Agriculture, and I would like to have him proceed with the bill and make such comments and suggestions and give us such information as he may desire to. STATEMENT OF HON. JAMES WILSON, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE. Secretary WILSON. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, the bill as printed is as the House passed it. We made estimates, as we do every year, and we thought that you had a right to consider not only what the House passed, but what the department estimated for. And Mr. Zappone, who never hesitates to do extra work, remained up until 1 o'clock last night in putting in red ink what will make this bill that the House has passed conform to our estimates, so that the Senate committee can look at the pending proposition from our standpoint, the standpoint of the department, as well as from the standpoint of the House that passed this bill. So that when you see something that is in red ink here you will know that is what the department wanted. Now, there is another proposition that I may as well explain to begin with. Away back I have forgotten how long back nowwhen was the organic act passed, Mr. Zappone? Mr. ZAPPONE. In 1862. 3 |