Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
CHICAGO SCORES A POINT.
National Farmers Congress Vote on
the Fair Location.
A Big Majority of the Ballots Cast
For Chicago.
1t Favors the Repeal of the Internal
Revenue Law.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Nov. 15-The
National Farmers congress adjourned to-
day, and the delegates left this evening
for New Orleans. The new officers are:
President, R. F. Kolb, Alabama; vice
president, A. W. Smith, Kansas; secre-
tary, B. T. Clayton, Iowa; treasurer, VIM.
Lawrence, of Ohio. Vice presidents were
elected from each state The congress de-
cided to hold its next meeting in Iowa,
the place to be hereafter designated A
committee was appointed to report to the
next meeting suggestions of national
flower
A resolution to remove the tax ON tobac-
co, and one declaring that the government
does not need the money raised by internal
revenue taxation, and that congress favor
the repeal of the internal revenue laws,
and that the taxes raised from whiskey
and tobacco be relegated to the different
states to relieve them of local taxation,
were taken up and adverse reports con-
Cured IN.
A resolution offered by Pabor, of Colo
RADIO, asking congress to name Chicago as
the best point for the location of the
World fair of 1892 Kelly, of Kansas,
offered an amendment striking out Chi
cago and inserting St. Louis, which was
lost. The question coming up ON locating
the fair at Chicago, the vote stood 26l
ayes and 63 nays. The resolution favor
ing the unlimited coinage of silver met
with the adverse report and was indef-
nitely postponed. The following was In
troduced by Dreper, of Illinois, and I'M
animously adoted:
Resolved. By the Farmers congress,
that it favors the comprehensive scheme
for the improvement of the Mississippi
river and the building of ship canal
across the state of Illinois connecting the
Mississippi river and Lake Michigan; and
it is recommended to the United States
congress to make a liberal appropriation
therefor.
The majority of the resolutions on the
tariff question adopted last night, states
substantially that while congress main
tains a policy of protective tariff, we de-
mand that all farm products be as fully
protected as the most favored
of the manufacturing industries; that
while the tariff protects importations
OF foreign carpets and many other articles.
We demand that duties on mutton, sheep,
and wool of all kinds be so increased as to
equally prohibit the importation
OF mutton, SHeep dHu WOoi VI
every kind which can, under
protection be sufficiently produced at
fairly renumerative prices to supply all
America wants. That if protection to
this extent be denied we shall call upon
the farmers of the United States to assert
their power at the ballot box and otherwise
to right the wrong and injustice of the dis
elimination against them. The resolu-
tions declare that the farmers of the Uni
ted States are not called upon to support
the nomination of any man for
president, United States senator
or representative who will not to his ut
most ability aid in carrying out the OBJ
iects of these resolutions. The sill
yer resolution adopted reads:
THAT we favor the commercial
treaties which will discriminate in favor
of nations which accept the silver OF legal
tender money as gold, and against those
which have demonetized silver.
On motion of Clayton, Secretury Rusk,
and Statistican Dodge, of the department
of agriculture were unanimously elected
honory members.
Adjourned sine die.
ATLANTA, Nov. 15.-The federation of
the Knights of Labor with the Farmers
alliance is foregOne conclu-
sion. 1t is stated the ends for which
both parties are working are identical,
and asserted that together they could form
an irresistible power, and what each SIN
ely is obliged to struggle for, united they
could demand and obtain.