Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-12
CONGRESS or
Reports Made and Subjects Discussed
Mt Yesterdays Session.

at Yesterdays Session.
SEDALIA, Mo-, Nov. 1.-THE National
Farmers congress reassemblGd at IL o'clock
this morning. A number of resolutions were
introduced end referred.
Congressman Heard of Missouri delivered
an address on railway transportation. This
subject, he declared, was of supreme import
ance to the farmer. One solution Of this
vexed question, he said, was found in state
railway commissions, another, the method of
controlling railroad corporations in the in
terests of the people through the National
Railway commission. Some professed TO be
heve that railroads should be placed under
government management. A government
railroad, Heard believed, would be a gigan-
tic failure. In the first place the government
would have to buy railroads, and
that would cost siO, 900. 900, 900. That
would be an impossibility, practic-
ally because there is in circulation
only 81, 500, 900, 000.. The purchase of the rail-
roads would necessitate mourning 4 debt of
gigantic proportions, and he did not believe
the farmers or any one else wanted to go
down into their pockets and pay any more OF
a debt than they were now paying. Another
great objection TO railway government con-
troll was the increase of federal office holders
which it would necessitate.
Ii. G. Brown of Georgia endorsed every
thing Heard had said.
Martin Mohler, secretary of the Kansas
State Board of Agriculture, read a pape + on
'The kace Under Condition of High Civil
zatlons.''
The convention then adjourned until 2
o'clock.
At the afternoon session the committee on
resolutions presented for adoption the follow
ing preamble and resolutions, which were
adopted:
Whereas, The government of the United
States has established as u cabinet office a
secretaryshipo of agriculture, which action we
Whereas. The honorable j. NJ. Rusk occupies
that distinguished position in the r resent ad-
ministration and has been faithful and eau
tious and diIigentin consulting the best III
~tcrests of the farmers; therefore. be it
Resolved. That he is entitled to and has the
approval and thanks of this, the eleventh
annual sess on of tire National Farmers con-
gress of the United States in convention as
sembled in the city of Sedalia Mo-,
The committee, also submitted its formal
report through its chairman, Colonel Daniel
Needham of Boston, the 1T port being read by
Captain d. S. Purse of Georgia. The report
the adoption of resolutions
pledging the organization to MAINTAIN it's non
partisan character: requesting the national
congress TO imprQvt, the river and harbor at
Savannah. Ga; demanding the passage of
laws distributing equally upon all classes the
burdens of taxation; = declaring that the pub
lie domain should De reserved for settlement
by citizens of the United States to the exclu-
sion of foreigners; declaring that national
taxation should be limited to the wants OF the
government, economically and honestly adj
ministered; requesting the secretary of agri-
culture to increase the number OF represent
atives in foreign countries to push the work
of introducing American corn as food, be-
lieving that tho marked success in that dlrec-
tiou attained already is a warrant for such
request, and requesting congress TO appro-
pirate sufficient money to cover tho expense
of this increased representation abroad; de-
handing the systematic and thorough I'M
provement by the federal government OF the
waterways and haroors of the United States;
requesting the extension of the free delivery
of mails among the farmers; demanding the
control of all trusts and combinations and
monopolleS, so that they shall work no harm
to the people; recommending that the presi-
dent of the United States and the United
States senators be elected by a direct, or
popular, vote; demanding the extension of
the signal service reports issued by the Agri-
cultural department; requesting the federal
government to aid the states in the irrigation
of ard lands.
The resolutions were considered seriatim
and were all ADOPTED with the exception OF
the latter, which the congress struck from
the report by II vote Of A to l76.
The resolution asking congress to improve
the harbor at Savannah. Ga, was loudly ap-
plauded and unanimously adopted, as was
also the resolution demanding the election or
the president and vice president OF the United
States and United States senators by popular
vote.
The committee on finance presented a re-
port, requesting the various state legislatures
to make appropriations for the expenses OF
the state delegations to future congresses OF
this character in order that each state may
have a full and proper representation. The
report was adopted.
The convention then adjourned until to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock.
This evening the delegates were entertained
at various receptions ana by a parade of the
Sedalia Flambeau club,