EXCHANGE OF CONGRESSIONAL RECORD FOR PARLIAMENTARY HANSARD.

APRIL 4, 1912.-Ordered to be printed.

Mr. FINLEY, from the Committee on Printing, submitted the

following

REPORT.

[To accompany S. J. Res. 93.]

The Committee on Printing having had under consideration the Senate joint resolution (S. J. Res. 93) authorizing the Librarian of Congress to furnish a copy of the daily and bound Congressional Record to the under secretary of state for external affairs of Canada in exchange for a copy of the Parliamentary Hansard, reports the same back to the House with the recommendation that the resolution be agreed to.

The said resolution is as follows:

JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the Librarian of Congress to furnish a copy of the daily and bound Congressional Record to the under secretary of state for external affairs of Canada in exchange for a copy of the Parliamentary Hansard.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Librarian of Congress is hereby authorized to furnish a copy of the daily and bound Congressional Record to the under secretary of state for external affairs of Canada in exchange for a copy of the Parliamentary Hansard, and that the Public Printer is hereby directed to honor the requisition of the Librarian of Congress for such copy. The Parliamentary Hansard so received shall be the property of the Department of State.

Passed the Senate March 28 (calendar day, March 29), 1912.
Attest:

62D CONGRESS, 2d Session.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. No. 497.

HUMBERTO MENCIA AND JUAN DAWSON.

APRIL 4, 1912.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.

Mr. WATKINS, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the

following

REPORT.

[To accompany S. J. Res. 87.]

The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the joint resolution (S. J. Res. 87) authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the United States Military Academy, at West Point, Messrs. Humberto Mencia and Juan Dawson, of Salvador, having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it do pass.

O

CONGRESS

MANUEL AGUERO Y JUNQUÉ.

APRIL 4, 1912.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.

Mr. WATKINS, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany S. J. Res. 91.]

The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the joint resolution (S. J. Res. 91) authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the United States Military Academy, at West Point, Mr. Manuel Agüero y Junqué, of Cuba, having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it do pass.

IMPORTATION OF ADULTERATED AND LOW-GRADE

SEEDS.

APRIL 4, 1912.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.

Mr. COVINGTON, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 22340.]

The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 22340) to regulate foreign commerce by prohibiting the admission into the United States of certain adulterated seeds and seeds unfit for seeding purposes, report the bill back to the House with a recommendation that the bill do pass.

The object of this bill is to prohibit the admission into the United States of certain adulterated forage-crop seeds which are unfit for seeding purposes, but which are intended for seed. The bill is set forth in full at the end of this report.

This bill is the outgrowth of various bills and agitation in regard thereto concerning the importation of an interstate commerce in seeds. The bill reported, however, does not effect interstate commerce in seeds and does not affect any kind of seed except alfalfa, barley, blue grass, awnless brome grass, buckwheat, clover, field corn, Kafir corn, meadow fescue, flax, millet, oats, orchard grass, rape, redtop, rye, sorghum, timothy, and wheat.

The bill as now presented and favorably reported by your committee is believed to have the unanimous indorsement of the seed trade, of the official seed analysts of the various agricultural experiment stations, and generally of the producers as well as the consumers of seed. It also has the indorsement, to the extent that it goes, of the Department of Agriculture. So far as your committee has been able to ascertain, no one is now opposed to the passage of the bill. Its passage into a law will entail little, if any, additional expense upon the Government, but will be productive of great good in keeping out of this country the low-grade seeds which are now sent here from foreign lands, the Governments of which prohibit the home use of such seed.

We attach hereto, as a part of this report, extracts from former proceedings, as well as copies of different bills introduced, and letters and statements relating to them.