FIGHTING THE INSECTS 



to get more money. I remember that once in the i88o's he was 

 out of town when the Appropriation Bill was about to be re- 

 ported and that he telegraphed me to call on Congressman 

 Hatch o£ Missouri (the author of the Hatch Act, under which 

 all the State Experiment Stations of the country were founded), 

 who was then Chairman of the Agricultural Committee of the 

 House, and urge him to use his influence for a certain small 

 appropriation. I found Congressman Hatch in his rooms on the 

 second story of a building on F Street, I think between Tenth 

 and Eleventh, where he was living with his family. He came 

 out into the room that was used as a parlor to see me — a bluff, 

 democratic, Western sort of man — and told me very plainly that 

 he had no opinion of my chief and that he would better stay in 

 Washington and attend to his business than go to Florida on 

 a junket. 



On a later occasion, when Professor Riley was in Europe, the 

 appropriation for entomological work seemed to be in danger. 

 It happened that Dr. C. Hart Merriam had just come to Wash- 

 ington to undertake work on the food habits of native birds 

 as a branch of the division of entomology. He did not like Riley, 

 but he was a great friend of mine and told me that he would 

 go with me to his cousin, Warner Miller, who was then U. S. 

 Senator from New York. We went together in the evening to 

 call on Senator Miller in a beautiful house on K Street near 

 Fourteenth. I found the Senator a charming and well-educated 

 gentleman, who told me that, while he did not approve of Pro- 

 fessor Riley, he knew that the work was important, and that 

 he would do what he could to put the appropriation through. 

 He succeeded. I think that those were the only two bits of lobby- 

 ing I ever tried to do. 



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