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ester Chamber of Commerce; and their representative is here 

 and he wants to have a minute's time to talk to you. 



j\Ii\ Elwood introduced ]\Ir. Rohert Uey, l*rcsident of the 

 Syracuse Chamber of Commerce ; ]\Ir. Thomas Meacham, of the 

 Chamber of Commerce, and Mr. Robert Jones, who spoke briefly, 

 welcoming the convention to Syracuse, extending an invitation to 

 return next year and to make Syracuse the permanent meeting- 

 place of the Association, explaining that another year they would 

 be able to provide even better accommodations. 



'Chairman Smith : This subject has been brought up here so 

 that you may know what the feelings are of these different gentle- 

 men. It is something that cannot be settled here and the directors 

 must take it up and act at a future time as may seem, best after 

 getting all the information they can. 



The following resolutions, prepared by the resolutions com- 

 mittee and presented by Mr. W. IST. Giles, were adopted on mo- 

 tions duly made, seconded and carried : 



1. Whereas, The l^ational Dairy Union has prepared and had 

 introduced in Congress a bill, known as the Haugen bill, and 



Whereas, Said bill seems to protect the manufacturer of legit- 

 imate dairy butter as well as the manufacturer of oleomargarine, 

 and 



Whereas, This association is vitally interested in the passage 

 of this bill and the protection of their business from the un- 

 scrupulous competition of counterfeit butter, and 



Whereas, Hon. Geo. L. Flanders, of our state, president of 

 the JSTational Dairy Union, is doing such splendid work, 



Resolved, That we pledge to President Flanders and the of- 

 ficers of the l^ational Dairy Union our healthy support, and 

 further 



Resolved, That we, the members of this association, pledge our- 

 selves to indite personal letters to our United States Senators and 

 to the members of Congress from our respective districts, ex- 

 pressing our approval of and hope for the passage of said Haugen 

 bill. 



2. Whereas^ The dairy interest is by far the greatest agri- 

 cultural interest of the State of ]S[ew York, therefore, 



Resolved, That the New York State Dairymen's Association 



