Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1905-05-25
NEW YORK STATE GRANGE,
The Thirty-second Annual Session
Held Mt OGdensburE.

The Th1rty-secOnu Annual session
Held mt OGdensburg.
The thirty second annual session of
the New York state grange assembled
in the opera house at Ogdensburg, y.
V, Feb. I, Worthy Master Elliot b.
Norris presiding.
Secretary W. \. Giles report showed
that the total number of oranges ut
last report was 5GT. organized PC new
oranges during the past year, reorgan-
lied 3, disbanded and declared dormant
H. making the number of oranges on
the books Sept. 80, 1904, 1t which time
this report was made up, so. Several
new ones have since been organized
The total paid membership on that date
was J9,39S and members in arrears
but still on the books 2.136, making IL
total membership of 81 ,53l, IL gain of
o002 for the past grange year. Jcffer-
son county has the largest member
ship-viZ, 6,2J6. The next in order are
Chautauqua. t. 1913; st. Lawrence, 4,33T6;
Oswego, 1910; Monroe, 3,Sl2; Wayne.
3.706. There are. one Juvenile and for
ty-onc Pomona oranges in the state, and
fifty counties of the state have sub
ordinate oranges.
Treasurer L. A. yelling reported
total receipts for the year SIS, 1349l; ac.
crued interest. $34J.O5; total, l9,OI9.96;
balance on hand Jan. |, 1904 SO, ,412.2i,
making total of $34, 1920 Total dis
bulsements in 1904, $16.52tI7; balance
.on hand Jan. /. 1908. $11 961. .43.
Governor c. j. Bell OF Vermont,
master of the Vermont state grange.
usual honors. At later hour a recep-
tion was given i'll the hotel parlOrs to
Governor Bell, who was attended by
his two daughters and Colonel NJ Il.
Roberts of his staff and wife In the
evening IL public meeting was held ut
the opera house, at which the speaker
were Governor Bell and Past State
Lecturer Mrs. 5. \. Judd. There was
also an entertaining literary and music
al programme given under the direc-
ton of the lora, conimittee, of which
Major ~ IL. itauieis WAS tne efficient
chairman.
At the second days session there was
an increased attendance of delegates.
\ letter was read from J. +. Rice, pro-
feSsor of agriculture at Cornell uniyer-
sity, urging that the state grange re-
new its appropriation for scholarship
nd lat 70, in hn ion on
preparation of 500, unused the past
year, was made for this purpose.
The legislative committee reported
that there were no laws enacted during
1904 detrimental 10 the agricultural in
tercsts of the state. but several were
enacted that would work for the farm
ers' interests. The committee said they
are advocating as large an appropria
ton for good roads as Is consistent
with the revenues of the state. They
believe that the appropriation made
last year to establish Il state agricul-
tural college at Cornell will rebound
largely to the interests of the state.
The committee have used their best eff
forts to prevent what seems to them to
be the conSummation of a great injus
tice to the farming districts Of th
state in the enactment of the law f
the enlargement of the canals of tn
state. They then rehearsed several OF
the steps taken to prevent the letting
of contracts for canal construction and
also referred to the repeal bill intro
duced in the legislature. and they urged
every member of Il subordinate grange
and every taxpayer as well to write to
his senator and aSsemblyman urging
that they work for the repeal of the
canal act. The committee referred to
the work of the .Anticanal league. Of
which Hon. James Wood of Mount Kis-
90 is president and Hon. John l. Platt
| of Poughkeepsie is secretary. Through
| these officers the services of Hon Elihu
Root We're secured to investigate the
! question of the legality of the canal act
| With him was associated Hon. Charles
! Andrews of Syracuse. who together
| pronounced the act unconstitutional
| and advised taking further legal steps
! TO bring the matter into the courts.
At this session OF the grange ey-Gov.
elnor Bachelor of New Hampshire
was present and addressed a public
meeting of the members of the Order
and citizens OF Ogdensburg in the cven-
ing
Among the resolutions adopted were
the following: Relative to the grange
good roads bill, known as house bill
10T65, which provides for the distribu-
ton Of S24.O00.00O among the states
resolution asks that the pro rata share
coming to New York state amounting
to about 81, 100000. shall be divided be-
tween state. county and locality in tie
same proportion as money for same Is
now raised); asking the legislature to
enact such laws as may be II icessary
in establishing and operating stone
crushing plants for macadam roads
where suitable material is found with
ir reasonable distance ~ our priSouS