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next move is to pass your judgment upon the 

 report o£ the committee. I would urge that 

 vou consider it carefully, as a member of this 

 association, and I have been a member for a 

 long time. I am willing to abide by the result 

 of the majority vote, let it lead us where it 

 may, and I will support the association after 

 that just as loyally as I support it today. [Ap- 

 plause.] We are not wanting to take the other 

 fellow's thunder. Not a bit of It. But there 

 are conscientious lumbermen in this body who 

 desire as nearly as possible a universal system 

 of inspection of lumber and a universal and 

 practicable system of applying the same. 



Mr. Scatcherd — How long? 



Mr. Stimson — As long as the majority wills 

 it to be. [Applause.] I am willing to trust 

 the people and abide by the result. This com- 

 mittee who presented this report drafted rules 

 and made a system of applying the same that 

 attracted the attention of the gentleman from 

 Buffalo and caused him to come into this asso- 

 ciation three years ago. This committee is just 

 as earnest in what it propQses to do today as 

 it was then. At the time the gentleman's atten- 

 tion was attracted to the association nobody 

 told him then how long^ and he didn't ask. 

 Vote according to the dictates of your conscience 

 and we will stand by the result. 



Mr. Thompson — We have made our contract 

 and said we would not cliange it for three 

 years. If we made that contract why not stand 

 good? 



As illustrative of his position. Mr. Thompson 

 related numerous personal experiences. 



Mr. Woods — I am all the time learning some- 

 thing and I have learned something since com- 

 ing here this afternoon. Mr. Chairman, I think 

 everybody in this convention knows my atti- 

 tude. T.'p to three or four years ago I fought 

 National inspection rules because we had in 

 our own commonwealth a law that governed this 

 matter absolutely. But like Paul on the road 

 to Damascus I have seen a great light. I want 

 to say, representing as I believe I do every 

 man who handles hardwood lumber, at a meet- 

 ing of the Metropolitan Lumber Exchange there 

 were unanimously adopted the rules of National 

 inspection of hardwood lumber. That js a won- 



W. E. DOUGLASS, COLUMBUS, O. 



derful change in the attitude New England took 

 up to a year or two ago. We realize that con- 

 ditions have changed, and if any man did not 

 find that out before he came here he hasn't 

 had much experience in the lumber business. 

 We realize it. We have to adapt ourselves to 

 these changed conditions. We believe we should 

 keep step with the situation as it is, realizing 

 that conditions have changed altogether in the 



last three or four years. So far as we are con- 

 cerned we are satisfied to get lumber of any 

 kind. 



So far as the Buffalo agreement is concerned, 

 it seems to me idle and useless to argue that. 

 This was no iron-clad agreement, not like the 

 laws of the Medes and Persians. Two thousand 

 years ago the whole religion changed from an 

 eye for an eye and the laws of Moses to the 

 teachings of .Jesus Christ. We want to recog- 

 nize changed conditions. [Applause.] 



Mr. Scatcherd — Has the committee recom- 

 mended a time when this will apply? 



Mr. Fathauer — ITie committee recommends 

 that the rules go into effect December 1 of this 

 year. This committee does not recommend how 

 long they shall be operative. [Applause.] 



Mr. Underbill — Whether manufacturers or 

 wholesalers, or retailers or consumers, the most 

 desirable condition that could exist would be to 

 agree on a standard that would apply to all 

 shippers. I wish further to say that whilst 

 some of the changes appeal to me as rather 

 radical, yet, the adoption of them is not going 

 to be such a great hardship after all, judging 

 from a recent experience. 



I think the adoption of the rules proposed, 

 while I don't agree to all of them readily, yet, 

 it is bringing us close to the place where we 

 are willing to sell on National inspection. [Ap- 

 plause.] 



C. A. PHELPS, GRAND RAPIDS, MJCII. 



Amended Inspection Rules Adopted. 



The yuestiou being on the adoption of the re- 

 port of the committee as a whole, the yeas and 

 nays were called, and were as follows : 



Yeas 93 



Nays 45 



[Applause.] 



Mr. Lloyd — I have here a resolution which 

 I have been requested to read, on the line of 

 remarks made yesterday afternoon. 



For a School of Inspectors. 



Resolved, That the president appoint within 

 thirty days a committee of Ave. to be known 

 as the Inspection School Committee, to take up 

 the question of the establishment of a School 

 for Inspectors, under the control of this asso- 

 ciation. This school committee shall fully can- 

 vass the possibilities, cost and income from such 

 a school, and report to the Board of Managers, 

 and also to the next annual convention. 



It is further resolved that the Board of 

 Managers have authority to accept and act on 

 such report at any time they lind it desirable, 

 and mav start a school for inspectors if in their 

 judgment it can be done to the benefit of this 

 association. 



And be it further resolved, that the Board 

 of Managers is authorized to appropriate the 

 sum of twenty thousand dollars for this pur- 



pose to be used during the first twelve months 

 if said school is started. 



Dr. Schenk — I think Mr. Currie's paper ap- 

 pealed to all of us. We need educated in- 

 spectors and we need them in the yard and the 

 mill as well. The boys should know inspec- 

 tion. We should establish a school for inspect- 

 ors, where our youngsters, the young men in 

 the trade and in whom we have confidence, can 



ROBERT D. McI.EAN, BUFFALO. 



be trained to insi)ect lumber. I move the reso- 

 lution be adopted. 



Motion was seconded and carried. 



Mr. Thompson — I move a vote of thanks be 

 extended to the Inspection Rules Committee, 

 of which Mr. Fathauer is chairman, for their 

 untiring efforts and the extraordinary amount 

 of work done in bringing about this change in 

 the rules. I said if there is any change to be 

 made I shall be willing to trust myself to Fat- 

 liauer. 



Motion was seconded and unauimously agreed 

 to by a rising vote. 



Mr. Thompson — I wish to offer a vote of 

 thanks for the excellent entertainment given the 

 nicmbers of this association by the members 

 who have had charge of that matter, especially 

 the entertainment for the ladies and the smoker 

 last night, as well as other arrangements for 

 our amusement. 



President Russe — It gives me great pleasure 

 to ask you to vote on that proposition. I think 

 the members of the East who have taken charge 

 uf us have given us a grand and glorious time. 

 I am only sorry the railroad would not give 

 us special rates from different parts of the coun- 

 try, for we would have had at least- 50 per 

 cent more present than there are. I will ask 

 you to rise in voting on this motion. 



The motion was unanimously agreed to by a 

 rising vote. 



John M. Woods then offered the following 

 resolution : 



Strong Resolution on Lumljer Trust Con- 

 troversy. 



Whereas, Certain newspapers and persons havt 

 published and circulated statements that the 

 National Wholesale Hardwood Lumber Dealers' 

 Association has met in convention to discuss 

 subjects in connection with the lumber trust ; 

 therefore, be it 



Resolved, By the aforesaid association in con- 

 vention assembled, that we denounce as abso- 

 lutely false such statements and brand the au- 

 thors of them guilty of deliberate misrepresen- 

 tation. And we proclaim the principal object 

 of this association is the uniform inspection and 

 grading of hardwood lumber throughout the 

 United States, to the end that manufacturers, 

 dealers and consumers of lumber shall alike 

 have a square deal : that the questions- of rais- 

 ing or lowering the price of lumber or of in- 



