The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15

basis of representation and consider
change of place of meeting of delegates
from ali the cOnfederated organizations
on the 22d of February, 1892, for the
purpose Of agreeing upon demands
which all support. The basis of repre-
sentatiOn is twenty votes for each
national organization COnfGderatlng or
who may confederate by February 1st,
and one additional vote for every ten
thousand OF major fraction Of votes
belonging to such organization. The
manner of selecting and number OF
delegates was left to each body to az
range.
Your chairman is just in receipt Of
a letter from the National Patrons Of
Industry, asking the attendance of
your committee upon a conference to
he held in the city OF Lansing, Mich,
to be called the last of December next,
for the purpose of cOnfederating all
orders in that State looking to political
action. Your committee would con
mend that the President from Michigan
be requested to attend said meeting
representing the organization OF his
State. The expenses incurred by your
committee in discharge Of its duties
have been up to date $27.S and some
small bills for stationery, printing and
postage due the Economist Publishing
| Company, which have not been rem
dered. the exact amount Of which your
committee cannot state.
The chairman Of your committee is
in correspondence with other Organlza-
! tiOns who desire confederation, but he
has not felt authorized to proceed
without instruction from the body.
Partial report of the committee on
: 800 ---o-,-o1,II1DS %1D nINrfiNyO
of the following resolutions, was re
| ceived, and resolutions adopted as fol
lows:
WHEREAS, The State of Georgia has
| petitiOned the Congress of the United
States to complete at rs early a date as
! possible the Improvement upon the
river and harbor at Savannah, Ga.
therefore be it
ReSOlUcL, That the Farmers Alliance
and Industrial Union indOrse this
movement as Of Importance to the
| commerce of the entire country, and
! requests the National Congress tOgrant
the appropriation asked.
Resolved, That we, the National
| Farmers'A llianceaud Industrial Union,
in council assembled, request that the
Fifty second Congress appropriate %
per cent. Of the proceeds of the sale of
our public lands in the respective
States to be used for irrigation pur-
poses under State regulations.
Whereas the distribution Of seeds
and printed matter from the Depart
ment of Agriculture at Washington
does not produce results commensurate
! with the cost; therefore
ResOIUed, By the Farmers Alliance
and Industrial Union that it is the sense
Of 4hTc hNIr +ho+ tho IjStyIh1ltInT Of
| seeds and printed information relative
to the business of agriculture should be
done through the experiment stations
of the different States.
Motion by Brother Wardall, adopted
instructing delegates to the labor con,
ference t. be held February %, 1892,
to use all honorable means to secure
the Endorsement of the Ocala demands.
A resolution by Brother Stone, of
Georgia, was unanimously adopted;
WHEREAS, it is in the interest of good
government to place the pensioners Of
this country outside of the influence of
any political party, and thus lift the
entire pension system out of politics;
therefore
Resolved, That this National Council
is in favor of pensions to apply alike
to every needy, disabled, and honor
ably discharged Union soldier; and
that they be paid in United States
notes receivable for all dues, public
and private, thus adding to and dis
tributing the currency without detri-
ment to the business interests Of the
country.
Unanimously adopted.
Mrs. Gouger, representing the WO-
mans Christian Temperance Urion,
MO-, 0,,1r+o - H. ~A1~I - rO-Io -
few remarks.
On motion Of Brother Livingston, of
Georgia, a copy of the resolution on
pensions was ordered transmitted to
the Speaker of the House of Represen-
t~atives, the President of the Senate,
and the President of the United States,
with a request that they use all honor
able means to have the same enacted
into law.
Resolution by Brother Macune Great
ing a Legislative committee was offered
as follows:
Re8oIued, That there shall be a legis-
Iative committee of five members
authorized to represent the Supreme
Council upon questions of national leg
IslAtiOn indorsed by this body. The
president shall be ex-0fficiO chairman
Of this committee, and the other four
members shall be elected by this body.
2. That the State Alliances are here
by requested to pay the expenses of
their presidents whenever the presi-
dent of this body shall deem it best to
convene them for the purpose of cOun- !
sci and advice, and when so convened
they shall be known as the National
Council of State Presidents, and they
shall in that capacity be subject to the
call of the president, and may make
rules governing their own work.
Motion by Brother Livingston, of
Georgia, to sever the resolutions and
consider the two propositions separate