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of this country should include provision for education and experimentation in 

 forestry by tile aj;ricultui-al colleges and experiment stations of tlie different 

 States and Territories. 



Second. That the Congress of the T'uited States I)e asked to ap])ropriate 

 adequate sums for the promotion of forest education and experimentation in 

 the agricultural colleges and experiment stations of the United States. 



Third. That the executive conunittee of this association l)e. and is hereby, 

 directed to prepare a suitable bill with this purpose in view, and strongly 

 urge its passage by Congress at its forthcoming session. 



The resolution was referred to the executive conunittee. (For further action 

 see p. 53.) 



IXSTKrcTIOXS TO THE EXECUTIVE^ COMMITTEE REG.\RniNCi CONGRESSIONAL 



LKfilSI-ATION. 



G. W. Atherton. of rennsylvania. offered the following resolution: 



Rf'Kolrcd. That the executive committee be, and hereby is. instructed to use 

 its best efforts to promote the passage of the Adams bill, and also to give such 

 assistance to the Mondell bill as in its judgment may l)e advisable and as cir- 

 cumstances may justify. 



G. W. Atherton. The resolution, I hope, is plain enough to explain its own 

 purpose and purport, which is to concentrate the intiuence of the association on 

 the passage of the Adams l>ill. But I would like to say. as explaining, and 

 interpreting the second clause, that there is a feeling on the part of those who 

 are interested in the INIondell bill that they will not get support enough from 

 this association. The Association of State Mining Schools is naturally pushing 

 the Mondell bill, and there is no reason to suppose that this asociation, from its 

 ])ast history and its past committal to this bill, would throw any obstacles in 

 the way of that bill, and that it had definitely decided to push for one thing 

 now. The purpose of the resolution is to concentrate the attention of the com- 

 mittee on the Adams bill and at the same time to leave it free to act. in view 

 of the contingencies that arise in the progress of legislation. 



The resolution was referred to the executive committee. (For further action 



see p. 42.) 



E. A. Bryan, of Washington. I think there is perhaps some misunderstanding 

 about a reference to the executive committee. As I understand, the one pur- 

 pose of such reference is to fix a suitable time for the consideration of the 

 matter, and not in order that the executive conunittee may make a report on 

 the advisability or inadvisability of this or any other resolution. 



The President. The provision is that resolutions shall be referred to the 

 executive committee without debate, to be assigned a place upon the programme. 



E. A. Bryan. And not for the puri)ose of eliciting their views. 



K. L. Buttertield. of Rhode Island, offered the following resolution :' 



Resolution Regarding a Department oe Agricultural Education in the 

 National Educational Association. 



Whereas this association believes that the questions involved in the general 

 and the technical education of the rural people are of sufficient importance to 

 warrant siiecial recognition in the great gatherings of American educators: 



Therefore, be it , . a. , i 



Rcsolrcd. That our executive committee be hereliy instructed to take such 

 steps as they mav consider necessary in an endeavor to secure the consent of 

 the National* Ediicational Association to add to its list of special departments 

 a department or dei)artinents on rural and agricultural education. 



The resolution was referred to the executive committee. (For action on it, 



see p. 47.) 



Thereupon, at 12 o'clock noon, the convention adjourned until S p. m. 



