Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-04-22

and after its first meeting shall elect the
members Of the State Executive Commit
tee, two OF whom shall be taken from each
congressional district.
Section .. The Farmers Assembly shall
annually elect twelve members to the Farm
ers' Congress of the United States.
ARTICLE IV.-County Organization.
Section l. There shall be appointed in
the manner hereinbefore directed county
committee for each county and city of the
State; such committee to be composed of
two members from each magisterial district
OF county and each ward of city, to
hold office for the term of two years.
Section 2. The county committee shall
select its own chsirman, and shall have
charge of all executive business pertaining
to the ends proposed to be accomplished BY
this organization within their respective
counties and cities.
chairman of the Executive Committee of
each county and city to preside over the
meetings to elect delegates to the Farmers
Assembly, and as such chairman he shall
furnish to each member a certificate of his
election.
Section 4. 1t shall be the duty of the
Executive Committee of each county and
city to collect, by voluntary contribution,
funds necessary to carry on the business of
this organization. One-half of the funds
SO collected by each committee shall be
turned over to the State Executive Com
mittee to be used for publishing the pro-
ceedings of the Farmers Assembly and
other necessary purposes, the other half to
be used by the respective county or city
committees to be by them applied to the
objects proposed to be accomplished by this
organization.
Section 8. 1t shall be the duty of the
county and city executive committees to
appoint secretary and treasurer to have
charge of the funds collected, keep an &C
count of the same and disburse them on
the order of the committee.
ARTICLE V.-Amendments to Constitution.
Section 1. Amendments to this constitu-
ton may be proposed at any regular session
of the Farmers Assembly, and if agreed
to shall be published, and at the next regu-
lar session of the Farmers Assembly, held
after a general election of members, may
be adopted by two thirds vote of the
members elected.
The report of the committee on agricul-
ture and technical education was presented,
which favored the teaching of practical
farming in the schools of the Common
wealth, to which ono hour in each day
should be devoted.
RAILROAD DISCRIMINATION.
The following offered by Chas. Grattan,
we're adopted:
/ That the discrimination shown by
steamboat companies and the railroads
crossing the State to deep water in favor
of through freights is a direct blow to the
success of agriculture within her borders.
2. That such discrimination is Contrary
to those principles of public policy upon
which their charters rest and under which
the Commonwealth, in the exercise of its
powers, took private property for public
uses.
8. That the farmers of Virginia at the
coming election for delegates to the Gene
raj Assembly are urged to select men
pledged to right this wrong. and to hold
said delegates to a strict accountability for
their action in the premises.
4. That a committee of three be ap-
pointed by the Chair to memorabilia the
General Assembly upon the subject, and
suggests such measures as may seem to
such committee reasonable and just to the
railroads, the public, and the shipper.
A recess was taken until P. NJ.
ORGANIZATION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
When the Convention met in the after
noon the following executive committees
we're announced from the various congress
sional districts in this State:
First District-James P. Corbin, Caro-
line, and DR.. w. F. Bland, King and
Queen.
Second District-Henry Warning, Charles
City, and David Shriver, Nansemond.
Third District-Normand Smith, Henri
co, and F. Guy, Chesterfield.
Fourth District-T. F. Rives, Dinwiddie,
and E. B. Goode, Mecklenburg.
Fifth DISTRICT. j. Wilkinson, Pitt
sylvania, and James P. Critz, Patrick.
Sixth District-Thomas Fauntleroy,
Campbell, and W. Taylor Thorn, Roanoke.
Seventh District--H. D D. Lewis,
Clarke, and Il. L. Lyman, Albemarle.
Eighth District-W. B. Lynch, Lou
doun, and James L. Stringfeliow, Gull
pepper.
Ninth District-R. E. Withers, Wythe,
and John NJ. Preston, Smyth.
Tenth District-Joel W. Flood, Apo
mattox, and G. Julian Pratt, Augusta.
SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY.
In lieu of the report of the committee
on agriculture and technical education, q
substitute was adopted calling upon the
Legislature to establish school of tech
nology.
EMPLOYMENT OF CONVICT LABOR.
A report favoring the employment of
convict labor in repairing the public roads
of the State and directing the attention Of
the Legislature to the subject was adopted.
STATE ExHIRTIoN HALL.
A resolution, offered by Mr.. John L.
Hurt, requesting the General Assembly of
Virginia to appropriate sufficient sum of
money to build State exhibition hall in
the city of Richmond for the benefit of the
citizens of the State, provided the said
city will furnish an accessible lot free of
cost, was adopted.
TARIFF DISCUSSION.
A resolution asking the reduction of the
tariff to revenue basis and opposing the
tobacco tax was taken up and discussed at
considerable length.
As this was not considered proper
question for the action of the convention,
a motion to lay the resolution on the table
was adopted by vote of SO to SO.
The State Executive Committee organ
lied by electing Col. H. L. D. Lewis, of
Clarke, chairman; and Mr.. George W.
Mayo. secretary and treasurer.
On motion the chairman of the Execu-
tive COMMITTEES was requested to publish
in the month of June, 1885, an address
setting forth the claims and aims of this
convent on.
A resolution was adopted that each