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ResoJrcd, That its executive conimittoe be instructed to safeguard the inter- 

 ests of all these measures at every point, but to concentrate its efforts at any 

 particular session upon the bill or bills which may seem to be in the most 

 favorable condition for passage. 



The resolution was adopted, and. after some further discussion, the resolu- 

 tion of President Atherton. as amended by the executive committee, was laid 

 on the table. 



G. T. Winston offered the following resolution and asked its immediate con- 

 sideration, which was agreed to by the executive conmiittee : 



Resolrcfl, That the executive committee be instructed to secure, if possible, 

 such changes in the Mondell bill as will ajiply the funds appropriated thereby 

 according to the previous i)olicy of Congress in establishing and developing 

 colleges for industrial education, such policy being outlined in the Morrill bill, 

 the supplemental Morrill bill and the Hatch Act. 



President Winston said, in support of the resolution : 



The purpose of this resolution is that, if the committee can do it, they should 

 get us back again the ^Nlondell bill as originally introduced in Congress. It was 

 then acceptable to the Association of Mining Schools and this association, and 

 it was acceptable to everybody except the State universities. My motion is 

 simply that we ask a continuance of the policy of the National Government 

 as outlined in the three bills I have mentioned — the Morrill bill, the supple- 

 mental Morrill bill and the Hatch Act.- We have those three laws already 

 passed by the National Government, and my motion is that we ask Congress 

 not to change the policy established by them. It is nothing new I am asking 

 for; I am resisting something new, and something which will be the entering 

 wedge in controlling any future appropriations that the National Government 

 may make. 



At the suggestion of President Thompson, President Winston amended his 

 resolution to read as follows : 



Resolved. That the executive committee be instructed to request Congress to 

 continue the policy that it has adopted in the Morrill bill, the supplemental 

 Morrill bill, and the Hatch Act, according to the lines there laid down. 



The question upon the motion as amended was taken, and the motion was 

 agreed to. 



Claims of the Experiment Stations to the Consideration of Congress. 



H. C. White. The second reconnuendation of the executive committee is : 

 It is recommended that the association instruct the executive committee to 

 take apiiropriate action to secure, if i)racticable, the presentation of the claims 

 of the experiment stations to the proper support and consideration of Congress 

 at the next session of that body. 



This recommendation of the executive committee was adopted. 



Standing Committees. 



H. C. White. The third and last recommendation of the executive committee 

 is in regard to the matter of the standing committees of the association. The 

 executive committee offers the following resolution and recommendations: 



Resolved, That all matters affecting the relations of the association to the 

 Government departments and to National legislation be assigned to the execu- 

 tive committee or to special connnittees raised from time to time to meet 

 special exigencies, and that matters relating to the work of the association 

 itself be assigned to the standing committees of the association. 



It is recommended (1) that the standing connnittees of the association be as 

 follows : 



(a) On bibliography. 



(b) On methods of teaching in the land-grant colleges. 



