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make examination of the smaller shipments as it would to examine 

 the entire foreign importations, and would entail a needless expense. 



The important feature omitted from the original nurserymen's 

 bill was again omitted from this compromise measure, namely, the 

 power given the Secretary of Agriculture to quarantine against the 

 introduction of particular plants from any foreign district where such 

 plants are infested with insects or disease new to this country and 

 particularly such as cannot be kept out by inspection or disinfection. 

 Several of the minor, but nevertheless important, omissions already 

 noted in the case of the first draft of the nurserymen's bill character- 

 ized also this substitute measure. 



Inasmuch as these omissions were deemed vital defects in the meas- 

 ure by the authorities of the Bureaus of Entomology, Plant Industry, 

 and the Forest Service of this department, a new bill was drawn up, 

 embodying the amendments agreed upon between the nurserymen 

 and this department and retaining the features believed to be neces- 

 sary to safeguard the country from the introduction of new pests. 



Shortly after the opening of the second session of the Sixty-first Con- 

 gress, Mr. Simmons of New York, at the request of his local constitu- 

 ency — fruit growers and nurserymen — reintroduced the Scott Bill 

 of the previous session (H. R. 15656, December 16, 1909), The new 

 draft referred to in the preceding paragraph, provicUng for inspection 

 at final destination, and introduction by the permit system, was sub- 

 mitted to Mr. Simmons, who promptly introduced it in substitution 

 for the bill which he had already presented, and it was referred to the 

 Committee on Agriculture and ordered printed. (H. R. 23252, March 

 21, 1910.) 



This bill, as already indicated, had been altered to meet the demands 

 of the nurserymen in every particular which it was felt could be done 

 without materially affecting the usefulness of the measure. Never- 

 theless, the same nurserymen's committee which appeared the pre- 

 vious year again came to Washington and made active objection to 

 the measure, chiefly on the score of section 8, and, as a result of this 

 objection and the pecuUar conditions of that session of Congress, 

 w^iich made it almost impossible to enact new legislation, this bill 

 went over to the next session of Congress. A lengthy hearing, how^- 

 ever, was given on this measure before the House Committee on Agri- 

 culture, participated in by representatives of the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology and Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, a committee from the nurserymen's association, and a number 

 of individuals representing horticultural and nursery interests, also the 

 state entomologists of the states of New Jersey, West Virginia, Vir- 

 ginia and Maryland. All those appearing before the committee were 



