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others, but I think w are all heartily in 

 favor of the inspection bureau as well as 

 anything that has been brought before our 



iation in that line. I think we are able 

 and willing and that we will do all we can 

 in that connection. I believe that we are 

 reaching a point where we thought a few 

 years ago we would get to sooner, but we are 

 'there now. We are getting stronger daily 

 and I don 't know any reason why this money 

 should not be spent for the purpose for 

 which the organizatiou was originally 

 brought about uniform inspection. (Ap- 

 plause.) 



Mr. Wilkinson of Grand Rapids— Mr. Pres- 

 ident: There have been some remarks made 

 here regarding this matter that I am very 

 much in favor of. This is a position that 

 ought to be filled by a very competent man 



a man who should devote his whole time 



and energy in that direction— and I think the 

 hardwood lumber dealers ought to be able 

 to maintain a man in that position and pay 

 him for the time he spends at it. I think the 

 question of salaried inspectors is a good 

 thing, and we ought to have more of them. 



President Palmer— We have good talkers 

 here. We have heard from the South and the 

 Ohio river. There is one gentleman from 

 Wisconsin whom we are always glad to hear 

 at our meetings— Mr. B. F. McMillan. We 

 would like to hear from him. 



Mr. B. P. McMillan— I have listened to the 

 remarks of the chairman of the committee on 

 inspection and I have heard the other re- 

 marks. The chairman made the statement 

 that a large percentage of lumber was sold 

 on the national rules. I take issue that all 

 on that somewhat. I don't believe that all 

 members of this association are selling lum- 

 ber on those rules. I think it is essential 

 that every member should sell on those rules. 

 (Applause.) We have a bureau of inspection 

 that will stop the worst evil that ever befell 

 this association if we use it. You can stop 

 the evil of salting grades. You have- it in 

 your power to do that, and I would be in 

 favor of increasing our inspection bureau so 

 that the surveyor general could send out a 

 circular letter advising all manufacturers to 

 call upon our inspectors to inspect casual cars 

 as they come in— not wait until the car has 

 been inspected and complained of, but to call 

 them to educate the man who received this 

 lumber from the dealers of this association. 

 I believe that is one thing we want to look 

 after. There is no worse competition in God 

 Almighty's world than a misrepresented 

 cause. There are some men who think they 

 are the only pebble on the beach, or the only 

 can in the alley, but I want them to under- 

 stand distinctly that the manufacturers are on 

 to them and they are doing the same thing. 

 (Laughter and applause.) 



I believe in this inspection bureau. I be- 

 lieve that we ought to have salaried men and 

 that they ought not to work for any dealer, 

 either buyer or seller, but ought to work for 

 this association under a salary which will 



ort them well, and when you do that you 

 will have the confidence of the buyer and 

 when you have got the confidence of the 

 buyer you are it— you have got the whole 

 thing; but until you get the confidence of the 

 buyer, you haven't got it. 



The facts are these — you can make any rule 

 you are a mind to, but if you go out and cut 

 that rule or sell another grade by salting it, 

 you are simply making the man who receives 

 that grade distrustful of this organization, 

 and therefore you are an enemy to it. I 

 would be glad to be one to help select from 

 my neighborhood a man whom no one could 



oach and let him go among them, educate 

 our men, our private inspectors, what the 

 should be. The pine men and the hem- 

 lock I n have a grading bureau and they 



pay them to go around every day to see 

 whether the grades are being made too poor 

 or too good. They check them up in either 

 instance. I didn't calculate to say a word 

 here today but I have had this up my sleeve 

 for a number of years. (Applause.) 



President Palmer— The chair has got a lit- 

 tle confession to make and that is that we are 

 kind of killing time waiting for the revision 

 of the rules committee to bring in their re- 

 port, and it seems that we are doing profitable 

 work. We are glad to have heard from the 

 gentleman who last spoke, but in order that 

 he may properly understand that he is not 

 the only pebble on the beach or the only tin 

 can on the dump that can make a speech, we 

 have a gentleman from Boston whom we 

 would like to hear from, Mr. Gardner I. 

 Jones. 



Mr. Jones — That is a pretty hard subject 

 for a man from Boston to talk on — national 

 inspection. If we ever get it introduced down 

 there it will be in the millennium, I think. 

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it comes along slowly. It is hard to drive it 

 into an eastern dealer's head that he is not 

 the only one who makes rules for his part of 

 the country, and if he keeps national inspec- 

 tion out of New England that he is going to 

 get all the trade. I believe that is a false way 

 to look at it. Through Mr. Lawrence, Mr. 

 Litchfield and one or two others, we are try- 

 ing to educate them. Perhaps some day we 

 will have them properly educated. (Ap- 

 plause.) 



President Palmer — We knew that we were 

 going to be delayed a little while this after- 

 noon on account of these reports coming in 

 late, and the suggestion was made that we 

 have somebody who could get up and talk 

 half an hour and I have pretty good authority 

 for saying that Mr. Bill Russe can talk half 

 an hour. (Laughter and applause.) 



Mr. Russe — I'll tell yon what 1 have been 

 doing. I have been up in that inspection com- 

 mittee room. Talk about talkl I have talked 

 and talked and talked, until I can't talk much 

 more. I suppose when you all came in here 

 you saw a little circular about the town I 

 came from. The only thing (laughter) — 

 the only pebble on the beach. (Applause.) 

 Why, I can't entertain this crowd. I might 



ask you all to take a drink now, but I know 

 you will accept it. Finances a little low, 

 ami business dull — in Buffalo. 



Mr. Yeager — Finances are not low in Buf- 

 falo. 



Mr. Russe — Was that a Buffalo jnan that 

 said that? (Laughter.) That committee will 

 be down in about five minutes. 



Mr. Lloyd — I would like to present a mo- 

 tion. We expected to hear tomorrow morn- 

 ing from Mr. Pern of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealer-' Association on the 

 subject of the endeavors of that association 

 and some others to take up this car stake 

 question. I now move that the chair ap- 

 point a committee of three to confer with 

 Mr. Perry and bring in tomorrow morning 

 resolutions, if they think it desirable, on that 

 subject. 



The motion was seconded and carried, and 

 the president appointed as the committee on 

 the car stake question : C. E. Lloyd, B. F. 

 McMillan and W. H. Russe. 



Mr. Russe — While waiting for the commit- 

 tees to report, we have one here which, as 

 I understand, is just dying to report, the 

 committee on the Reports of Officers. 



The report of this committee was then pre- 

 sented by Mr. Stimson. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON REPORTS OF 

 OFFICERS. 



To the Members of the National Hardwood 



Lumber Association. 



Gentlemen — We, your committee on the re- 

 ports of officers, recommend that the ad- 

 dresses and reports of your president, secre- 

 tary and treasurer be spread upon the min- 

 utes of the association. 



We further recommend that the suggestion 

 offered by the president as to the revising 

 of the cypress rules be acted upon at this 

 meeting. 



We also recommend that the president's 

 suggestion as to the free distribution of the 

 rules of the association to all who may apply 

 for same be put into effect. 



We also would recommend that the excel- 

 lent address of your president be printed 

 and sent to all members. 



We further recommend that a vote of 

 thanks be given our very efficient officers for 

 the most excellent work during the past year, 

 and that their acts be indorsed by this asso- 

 ciation. 



Wo would also call your attention to that 

 part of your president's address recommend- 

 ing any improvement or changes to make the 

 rules more explicit, and think that this an- 

 nual meeting should consider such changes 

 in rules as may be offered to this end. 



J. V. Stimson, Chairman. 

 B. li. Thompson. 

 George D. Burgess. 



After some inquiry by Mr. Moffett and 

 others, and full and satisfactory explana- 

 tions by President Palmer, Mr. Stimson and 

 others, Mr. Moffett moved that, in accord- 

 ance with the president 's recommendation, 

 there be an unrestricted distribution of the 

 rules, but that all persons not members of 

 this association be charged 25 cents a copy 

 for same. This motion was seconded and 

 was subsequently amended, upon motion of 

 Mr. Thompson, that the price of the rules be 

 fixed at 10 cents instead of 25 cents. 



President Palmer — The question now re- 

 curs to the original motion as amended. The 

 original motion is to reject that part of the 

 committee's report recommending the free 

 distribution of the rules. 



A vote was then taken on the motion as 

 above stated by the president and the mo- 

 tion carried. 



Mr. Korn — The Cincinnati Lumbermen's 

 Club wishes to present a matter for discus- 

 ">" if this is the proper time. It has to 

 do with the adjustment of disputes or dif- 

 ferences between buyer or seller, the adop- 

 tion of a uniform clause to be inserted in 

 lumber contracts or printed on the back of 

 order blanks, or in some way made a part 

 of the selling agreement. In order to prop- 



