The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-02-22
MAKERS MEET
Big Gathering of Creamery Men
at St. Paul.
The Convention Gets Well Under Way.=-=
Strong Resolutions Favoring
The Circuit Bill Adopted.

st. Paul, Feb. 2O.-The first bust
ness done by the. ninth : annual con
vention of the National Creamery But
termakers' association, which convened
in st. Paul yesterday, was the pass
age of a resolution favoring the Circuit
bill, which is now before congress.
The bill, which. is designed to help
the dairy interests of this country, has
passed the house, and has been recon-
mended for passage by the senate COM
mittee. Only IL days are left of the
present session of congress, and the
buttermakers are afraid thatZ.the bill
may not be taken. up at this session.,
and that would.-mean that it would
have to b~e--fought over again at the
next SESSION Through both branches
of congress.
w. K. Boardman, Nevada, : Ia,
chairman of the executive committee
and an of the association,
urged the members of the association
to do all in their power to help get the
bill through at the present session,
now that it has gone so far, and he
recommended that the associations send
a telegram to Senator Spooner, who
is working for the bill, asking him to
do all in his power to have it brought
up during this session.
Yesterday afternoons session at the
auditorium comprised simply the
opening exercises of the convention.
No other business aside from the mat
ter referred to above and the appoint
ment of a couple of committees was
done. The exercises consisted only of
addresses of welcome by Gov. Van
SAINT, R. A. Smith, mayor of st. Paul,
and H. A. Boardman, president of the
st. Paul Commercial club, and the re-
spouse by J. G. Lombard, Omaha.
G. E. Haskell, president of the as
ISOLATION, made a brief address on the
history of the buttermakers' ~associa-
ton during the past year, and sug-
gested that the name of the organiza-
tion be changed. He said that the
supply men, machinery men, trans
probation men and many others pro-
perly belong to the association, and he
thought that the name should be
changed to something more general in
order that they might be included.
A motion was made and adopted to
the effect that a committee be- ap-
pointed to consider the question chang
ing the name and the bylaws of the
association, and President Haskell APP
pointed F. P. Fulmer, of Wisconsin
Joseph Newman, cf Illinois; F. A.
Geighton, of Iowa 81. T. Sondergard,
of Minnesota, and f. p. Urner, of
New York. Ex-Gov. Hoard, of Wis
consin Charles Harding, of Nebraska,
and A. E. Anderson, of Iowa, were
appointed a committee on resolutions.
Buttermakers from all parts of the
country a~rrived.by thousands yester-
day morning, and it is estimated that
before evening there were more than
3, 600 visitors in thestwin cities. More
than 60 persons from New York, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia and Chicago,,r.came
in" on the Great Western train at s 80
o'clock yesterday morning, and they
were given a rousing reception as soon
as they stepped off the train.
In the afternoon aside from the open
ing exercises at the auditorium, the
most important event was the grand
parade. Notwithstanding the unpleas-
ant cold weather more than 1, 500 men
turned out of the grand parade, headed
by the band and a platoon of mounted
police.
The delegates are already busily en-
| gagged trying to decide upon the place
for holding thhe next meeting. There
are only two cities in the fight at the
present time, Milwaukee and Kansas
City, with the chances in favor of
Milwaukee. The Milwaukee contin-
gent thought that everything was 60
ing its own way, but they kept hard
at work, and were not very much dis
appointed to find that Kansas City had
entered the field. They still feel alb
solutely confident of having enough
support to win out.