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Resolution No. 4. Resolved, That each county of the State should 

 and that they be asked by this Congress to appropriate a sufficient amount 

 of money to assist in making a creditable showing at the St. Louis Ex- 

 position. 



Resolution No. 5. Resolved, That it is the sense of this Farmers' 

 Congress of Indiana that we ask our representatives in Congress to use 

 due care in making appropriations for the improvement of such rivers as 

 are of little value to the State in a commercial way as carriers of 

 commerce. 



Resolution No. fi. Resolved, That we recommend to the favorable 

 action of the Indiana delegation in Congress the good roads bill of Rep- 

 i-esentative Brownlow, or some other bill of equal merit. 



Resolution No. 7. Resolved, That this Congress recommend to its 

 Legislative Committee to exert its influence in matters that will continue 

 to foster the Farmers' Mutual Insurance Companies. 



Resolution No. 8. Resolved, That the Legislative Committee of this 

 Congress be instructed to propose and forward a measure providing for 

 town or city mutual insurance companies. 



Resolution No. 9. Resolved, That it is the sense of this Congress that 

 there be legislation providing for State united cyclone insurance com- 

 panies, and that the same is hereby recommended to our LegislatiA^e 

 Committee. 



Resolution No. 10. Resolved, That the interests of the agricultural 

 classes of Indiana in regard to laws enacted concerning iuterurban lines 

 should be qarefully guarded, and the attention of the Legislative Commit- 

 tee is directed especially to this. 



Resolution No. 11. Resolved, That it is the sense of this Congress 

 that our license law for the sale of intoxicating liquors should be so 

 changed that the applicant for license to sell liquors shall secure the sig- 

 natures of a majority of the voters in the township or ward to a petition 

 stating that the petitioners desire a saloon in their midst and that the 

 applicant is a fit and proper person to conduct it. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS. 



JOSHUA STRAXGE, PRESIDENT. 



Members of the Congress — This being the first annual meeting of this 



Congress, and having but one year of existence as a new organization in 



this State, the organizers feel proud of the general interest manifested in 



the timely organization of this Congress, with its broad principles, for 



Uhe promotion and welfare of the agricultural interests of our State. 



This organization is political, but non-partisan. The functions of this 

 Congress are to extend our resources, find new and better markets, raise 

 our voices in behalf of wholesome legislation in behalf of the chief in- 



