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Show APPROPRIATIONS ; TOT LAVISH unooTH All who listened to tho masterly argument of Senator Ilorah nt Nib-ley Nib-ley Hill during the recent campaign, recall tint wholesale appropriation ho enumerated from one pago of tho UUvor and Ilnibor Ulll. wherein tho southern states wero tho beneficiaries. beneficiar-ies. Dery now and then theso mammoth appropriations spring up again, sometimes in ono form nnd sometimes in another. Tho latest is tho fish hatchery drag, and a recent number of tho Congressional Record shows how tho south Is again to the front. A bill H. U. 1GG17 provides for tho establishment estab-lishment of fish hatcheries in certain states, and among tho proposed appropriations ap-propriations aro tho following: State of Alabama $50,000 State of Louisiana 50,000 Stnto of Florida CO, 000 State of Texas 50.000 Thero nro n lot of others but thoso aro fair samples of tho entlro bill, and throughout tho dobato somo humor crept In, as witness tho following fol-lowing dlaloguo: Mr. Green of Iowa: I am Inclined to support that portion of tho bill which provides n fish hatchery in north-western Texas. If thero Is any placo In tho world that needs fish It in north-western Toxas. A man was traveling down In north-westorn north-westorn Toxas not long ago and ennio across another who was hauling haul-ing water. Ho asked him how far ho had been hauling it, nnd tho mnn replied for 3 miles. Tho travoler then said, "Why do you not dig a well nnd got water In that way?" and tho man replied, "Well, It Is Just about as far to water in that direction as it is In tho other." Mr. Sloan: Hut ns I understand It, tho purpose of this fish hntchory In northwestorn Toxas Is to propagate propa-gate flying fish. Mr. Croon of Iowa: That would help somo, for it would rellovo tho rowboys of tho necessity or rldlug a thousand mllos to tho Culf. Thoy can lariat thoso fish. 1 iup-lioso, iup-lioso, boforo breakfast, if thero Is only somo wntor supplied. If thero Is any placo that needs fish, I think Mr. Chairman, It Is northwrs i.i Toxns, nnd thov need water there also. I do not know whether thero is any provision In this bill sup-' plying water I havo heard something some-thing about artesian woIIb in iliis connection. I hopo they havo somo prolslon tor water for northwestern Texas for tho hatchery nnd also for Trinity River when ve c on tho rlvor nnd harbor b' 1. hls can easily bo supplied by nr:r-;an wells at a trilling oxpenso, but Just what hind of fish-Mr. fish-Mr. Hardy: Will tho gontloinnn yield? Mr. Green of Iowa: 'I will. Mr. Hardy: Now that tho gontlo-mnn gontlo-mnn is In a discursive humor, can tho gentleman toll ui whothor ho thinks Mars Is Inhabited? Mr. Oroon of Iowa: Tho gsntlo-mnn gsntlo-mnn can answer that question for himself. Mr. Hardy: I thought tho gontlo-msin gontlo-msin wanted to glvo wldo Information. Informa-tion. Mr. Green of Iowa: Tho contlo-mnn contlo-mnn probably can represent Mars as well as ho could somo oth-jr portion of tho country. If I described It ho would wnnt to put a fish hatchery thero. |