418 31r. HoUoivay^s Report. [^September, 



llr. |l'0,ll0to:rg's grport. 



We have been favored with the report of the Committee on Agri- 

 culture, to the House of Representatives, drawn by Hon, D, P. HoUo- 

 waj, chairman. 



The report is drawn up with great ability, and the essential points 

 are presented w^ith remarkable clearness and force. The Bill reported 

 by the Committee, is laid over among " unfinished business." 



We submit some extracts from Mr. Holloway's report, both as being 

 valuable in themselves, and as serving to show that correct principles 

 are therein presented with unusual power. 



We premise by stating that the Bill reported by the Committee pro- 

 vides for the establishment " of an economical department of the 

 government, which shall be devoted to the great agricultural interest 

 of the country." In support of the Bill, the report, after citing the 

 sentiments of the most distinguished statesmen of America, says — 



" We might incorporate here the strong and earnest recommendations 

 of several of the heads of departments in favor of decided legislative 

 action upon the subject of agriculture; but we have shown conclu- 

 sively that General Washington, and almost every successor in the 

 presidential chair, in obedience to the duty imposed upon them by the 

 constitution, to recommend from time to time to Congress such mea- 

 sures as they may deem calculated to promote the public welfare, 

 have regarded the promotion of agriculture as one of the objects which 

 would promote the public good, and add to our national prosperity. 

 Our executive officers have, perhaps, done their duty; Congress has 

 utterly failed in its obligat'ons to the people. While the constitu- 

 tional advisers of Congress have advised, and recommended action, to 

 which Congress has turned a listless ear, the people— the sovereign 

 people — are now demanding that this great interest shall receive the 

 attention and patronage of government. For the last four years, 

 petition after petition has been received from the people; agricultural 

 societies in the counties, State boards of agriculture, the United States 

 Agricultural Society, and State legislatures, have passed resolutions 

 recommending the establishment of an agricultural department. No 

 measure has heretofore been so earnestly and so generally recom- 

 mended to Congress by those whose clufy it is, and those whose 

 sovereign right it is, to call the attention of Congress to measures of 

 public importance. Will Congress longer disobey the injunction of 

 theone and the demands of the other ? No matter how slight an ap- 



