We are appropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars toward counteracting the effects of injurious insects attacking our fruit trees and vegetation. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are being appropriated for experimental stations and the employment of those having a technical knowledge of plant and vegetable life in the development of our agricultural resources. There is even in operation in connection with the Bureau of Immigration in this city and conducted at a great expense a system under which we are endeavoring to find an advantageous location for the foreigner as soon as lie reaches our shores. and yet. Mr. Speaker. the gentleman from New York and other Members on the Democratic side are endeavoring to take away from the prospector and miner the only encouragement he has ever received from the Government by abolishing the assay offices throughout the western country.
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