The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-02-14
-T T. M. SCoTT,
r-rr /. S. WEsTERMAN, =
J. w. MCALIsTER.

........-F $4,000 j. w. McAL1sTER.. f.
Upon motion the above report was
adopted. = .... 81. 49,. a,.s e...e-. [.~s -G
Bro. Hancock offered the following: 81,
Resolved, That our representative in
the National Grange, at its next annual
session, be and he is hereby requested to
use his influence to secure such change of
Art. :, Sec. 2, of the Constitution of the
National Grange as will allow State
Oranges to fix the periods of their regular
meetings. Adopted. .0.4lT-~l9 r..
The following is the Report of the
Committee on the Good of the Order: -.
Your committee recommend that the
following be referred to the Executive
Committee, with instructions to report
the same back to this body at its next
| session, in accordance with former res
olution of this body. $40
'We, the members of Aurora Grange,
ask that the State Grange use its influence
at our next Legislature, by petition or
otherwise, to have the school laws SO
| changed as not to include class schools,
pay all the teachers certain amount per
| month and then let the patrons who have
advanced students pay the teacher extra
| for their studies. We ask that the teach.
ers be employed to teach the primary
students such studies as are included in
| the sd class grade. This is what we think
| the government should do, and not edu-
cate those that have advanced to higher
| branches. -fr sl
| According to the present construction
of the law the teacher with a first class
certificate soon exhausts the Treasury;
absorbing the funds that have been set
apart for public free schools by teaching
a few students in the higher branches
and the primary pupils are deprived of
their just rights, and it seems to us very
wrong. We hope, therefore, that your
| BODY VIII make some eftOlt at our next
Legislature, by petition or otherwise, for
a change" .--aa -o@- ~
We recommend that the following do
pass as substitute for the preamble and
resolution offered by Brother w. Risley,
of Clay county, on the subject of Nation
al banks; also for the resolution offered by
| J. L. Caldwell: u 5000
I. That the Department of Agriculture
shall be made an Executive Department,
and the Commissioner Cabinet officer.
2. That the Agricultural Department
shall be sustained and supported by annual
appropriations commensurate with the
importance of the great and permanent
industry it represents. .-. rl5].-l n
3. That commercial treaties shall be
made with all foreign countries, giving to
| American products equal and unrestrict-
ed intercourse with the markets of the
world. -
| q. That governments be administered
in a cheaper and simpler manner, conso.
nant with the condition of the people
s. That more rigid economy in the
expenditures of public money be re estab-
lished. r.5.r, .g.sr.g-9
| 6. That the laws shall be plain and SIM
pie, to the end that justice shall be speedy.
crime punished, and good government
maintained. ---E +.. ~
| 7. That the creation or allowing of mo-
nopolies to exist is in violation of the spirit
and genius of free republican government
s. That the tariffs of freight and fare
over railroads and all transportation COM
panies shall be regulated and all unjust
determinations inhibited by law
Q. That the revenue laws of the United
States shall be so adjusted as to bear equal
ly upon all classes of property, to the end
that agriculture shall be relieved of the
disproportion of burdens it bears
10. That the patent laws of the United
States be so revised that innocent pur-
chasers of patent rights shall be protected,
and fraudulent vendors alone held respon-
sible for infringements Of rights and vio-
lations of law. ]ea
! II. That a system of elementary agri-
cultural education shall be adopted in the
common schools of the country.
II. That we are entitled to and should
have fair representation in the legisla-
tive halls of the country; chosen from the
ranks of the farmers. ? a0H 4
Brother T. F. Nash moved to amend the
report by declaring that monopoles. in
section 7 of the above is intended to in
clude the national banking system. 9 :
! The amendment was adopted and the
report as amended concurred in. 2s-'
Brother L. n. Dewitt, of Delta, offered
resolution requesting the Worthy Master
to urge such change in our constitutional
law as to make Fourth degree members
eligible as delegates to the State Grange,
which was adopted. 80 ~. - 50 ~, ~ {
| Committee on finance made the follow
| ing report to the Worthy Master and
members of the Texas State Grange:
| Your committee on finance respectfully
1 submit that they had under Consideration
the following resolution, offered by Bro
Their Nash, of Dallas; as..i, 81 It'd. s
/ Resolved, That brethren who have re-
organized Oranges in those districts in
which the lecturer has totally failed to dis.
charge his duty as prescribed by Tesolt-