Then I misunderstood the Senator. I wish to say to the Senator. however. that I can not accept amendments of that kind to this amendment. for the very reason that the pests he refers to are simply local inflictions. while the Russian thistle is a great national infliction. The seed of the Russian cactus was brought to this country by Russian immigrants who came here under laws enacted by the American Congress. It is a national pest. and it should be dealt with as such by the National Government. I will state to the Senate that within the last five or six years. time. the time in which the thistle has become obnoxious and troublesome. it has spread over the better part of seven of the great agricultural States west of the Mississippi River.
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