62D CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 1st Session. TO PLACE ON THE FREE LIST AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, COTTON BAGGING, COTTON TIES, LEATHER, BOOTS AND SHOES, FENCE WIRE, MEATS, CEREALS, FLOUR, BREAD, TIMBER, LUMBER, SEWING MACHINES, SALT, AND OTHER ARTICLES. APRIL 24, 1911.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed. Mr. DALZELL, from the Committee on Ways and Means, submitted the following VIEWS OF THE MINORITY. [To accompany H. R. 4413.] The pending bill was ordered reported not only without investigation, but without the semblance of consideration by the committee. It was stated in the committee that it would reduce revenue about $1,500,000, and it is now admitted that it will cut down the revenue by more than $10,000,000, and later admissions are likely substantially to increase this amount. The measure was christened by its authors "the farmers' free-list bill," and it represents a transparent attempt at the manufacture of political capital. In view of the title which its friends have given it, it would at least have been proper to investigate the effect it is likely to have upon the agricultural interests. The President of the United States felt it his duty to call Congress in special session to consider the Canadian reciprocity bill. That bill has already been acted upon by the House, and instead of bringing forward tariff bills, ill considered or not considered at all, for the purpose of administering political soothing sirup to particular classes of population, the undersigned are of opinion that the interests of the farmer and of everybody else will be subserved if the country is spared from further political exploitation and further tariff legislation at the present time and adjournment is taken promptly after the reciprocity bill shall have been finally acted upon. O S. E. PAYNE. J. C. NEEDHAM. NICHOLAS LONGWORTH. 62D CONGRESS, 1st Session. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. { REPORT TO CORRECT ERRORS IN CERTAIN APPROPRIATION ACTS. APRIL 19, 1911.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed. Mr. FITZGERALD, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. J. Res. 1.] The Committee on Appropriations, to whom was referred House joint resolution No. 1, to correct errors in the enrollment of certain appropriation acts approved March 4, 1911, having considered the same, report it back herewith and recommend its passage without amendment. O 62D CONGRESS, 1st Session. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. { REPORT No. 6. APPROPRIATION FOR PAYMENT OF CERTAIN EXPENSES INCIDENT SIXTY-SECOND CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. APRIL 19, 1911.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed. Mr. FITZGERALD, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. J. Res. 2.] The Committee on Appropriations, to whom was referred House joint resolution No. 2, making appropriation for the payment of certain expenses incident to the first session of the sixty-second Congress, having considered the same, report it back herewith and recommend its passage amended as follows: On page 2, after line 10, insert: For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding one dollar per thousand, to continue available during the fiscal year 1911, two thousand dollars. O |