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ment stations in every county in the infected district where the county 
authority would cooperate with the National Government, and we 
pee toa under this bill that the land will neither have to be pur- 
chased nor leased by the National Government to conduct.a single one 
of these different experiment stations; and we hope to have a great 
many of them, because it is just like educating the nation. The more 
schools you have and the more equipment, the more widespread the 
knowledge. 
The Cuarrman. Is there anything further, Mr. Burleson? 
Mr. Burueson. Mr. Chairman, I would like to suggest this: That 
the State of Texas make an appropriation each year of a given sum 
of money, $5,000 I think, to be expended in connection with the 
$15,000 appropriated by the General Government, which is denomi- 
nated the Hatch fund, at the State experiment stations. I will fur- 
thermore state that a reward of $50,000 has been offered by our 
State, and further, that the ingenuity of every man in Texas who is 
interested in the growth and culture of cotton has been taxed to the 
utmost to discover some means of relieving the distressful conditions 
which have resulted from this pest. We come here in order to enlist 
the continued services of scientists beyond the limits of our State. 
That is one of the objects and purposes of this measure. The State 
authorities, through the agricultural college, stands ready and will 
cooperate to the limit of their ability with any efforts that the Sec- 
retary of Agriculture may make looking to the discovering of a 
means of destroying this pest or lessening the damage which the pest 
has wrought in the State. 
I desire now to make this motion: A number of bills relating to 
this subject have been introduced and will be referred to this com- 
mittee. J move that all bills relating to the cotton-boll weevil and 
cotton diseases and demonstration farms for Texas which have been 
introduced be referred to a subcommittee, of which the chairman of 
this committee shall be the chairman, and that this subcommittee report 
back to the full committee next Saturday at half past 10 o’clock the 
result of its deliberations. 
The Cuarrman. Do you mean this coming Saturday ? 
Mr. Burtzson. This coming Saturday. My purpose in that is this, 
that if we can determine upon a line of action now, I am confident that 
we can secure the time on the first day of the session after the holiday 
recess, which will be January 4, for the consideration of the measure. 
If we determine on Saturday the action we are to take, then in the 
meantime the necessary report can be prepared, and the chairman of 
the committee can bring the matter to the attention of the House 
immediately upon the reassembling of Congress after the holidays. 
Mr. Chairman, before you put this motion I have made, I would be 
glad to have the benefit of any suggestions from any member of the 
committee. 
The Cuarrman. A committee of how many, did you say; three? 
Mr. Burueson. I will say three or five. The smaller number can 
work more expeditiously. 
Mr. Apams. Mr. Chairman, I am in sympathy with this bill, and I 
wish to say that there is no hesitation so far as I am concerned to let 
it go up now with certain modifications; but the purpose of this com- 
mission is defined here: 
“The duties of said commission shall be to prepare and execute, 
