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than east. I want to submit this to the asso- 

 ciation for action, and I -n-ould malse a motion 

 that a transportation committee of three be 

 appointed to handle this matter. 



Mr. McMillan : I would like to ask Mr. 

 Humphrey if be knows anybody who. in the 

 last six months or year, has shipped a carload of 

 hardwood on that rate west. 



Several members : Xes. 



Mr. Humphrey : Yes, we have shipped several 

 cars ; I thinV between three and four million 

 feet of hardwood lumber and maple flooring 

 has gone west out of Wisconsin, Michigan and 

 Minnesota within the last twelve months on this 

 85-cent rate. We could increase that five hun- 

 dred per cent if we had an opportunity. 



Mr. Clark : I want to express my sentiments 

 in line with Mr. Humphrey. We are in exactly 

 the same position as the Wisconsin lumbermen. 

 We ought to work together. He gave the exact 

 conditions that exist in our territory. 



President Palmer : Is the committee to be 

 a regular standing committee? 



Mr. Humphrey : Yes, a standing committe to 

 which any of these problems can be referred. 



Mr. Pritchard : I think the first step is to 

 appoint a committee to report on the ad- 

 visability of appointing a regular standing com- 

 mittee. 



Mr. Humphrey : If yon make that as an 

 amendment I will accept it. 



President Palmer : The motion by Mr. 

 Humphrey has been amended by Mr. Pritchard, 

 in substance that a committee be appointed to 

 report on the advisability of the appointment 

 of a standing transportation committee. We 

 will vote on the amendment. 



A vote on the amendment was taken, and the 

 amendment was carried. 



The president then appointed J. M. Pritchard, 

 A. B. Klise and W. A. Bonsack as such com- 

 mittee. 



President Palmer : I believe there is a little 

 explanation due the association owing to cer- 

 tain misrepresentations that have gotten into 

 the papers regarding the position of the presi- 

 dent of this association on the Pacific coast rate 

 question. The report was circulated that at the 

 Marshfleld meeting of the Wisconsin Hardwood 

 Lumbermen's Association the president of that 

 association, Mr. Arpin, made the statement that 

 the president of the National Association was 

 very indifferent to this matter, and in proof 

 thereof he read one or two extracts from a 

 letter that I had written in regard to the rate 

 question. I believe that it is due to the presi- 

 dent of this association that Mr. Humphrey 

 make a statement of just about what occurred 

 at the Marshfleld meeting. 



Mr. Humphrey : Well, the thing has already 

 appeared, I believe, Mr. President. Mr. Arpin, 

 in reading your letter, did not read all of the 

 letter, but simply extracts from it, and I think 

 the members of that association got the wrong 

 impression of what your ideas were, and I tried, 

 In my own weak way, to straighten the matter 

 out. That is about all I can tell you. 



Mr. McMillan : Mr. Chairman. I was there 

 and really I did not get that impression. I 

 think we should consider the advisability of 

 whether it would-be good policy for this asso- 

 ciation to take up some of these excessive rates 

 to the Pacific coast and sue the railroad com- 

 panies in behalf of the association and see if 

 we can come to an understanding in some way 

 that will make them believe that we amount 

 to something, that we are bigger than one indi- 

 vidual. I believe that we are today suing the 

 railroads on over-charge rates in Wisconsin. 

 We have all the law necessary to prosecute any 

 railroad for over-charge. 



President Palmer : if there is nothing fur- 

 ther to come before the meeting a motion to 

 adjourn will be in order. 



Upon motion, duly seconded, adjournment was 

 taken until Friday morning. 



FBIDAT UOBNING SESSION. 



The meeting was called to order by President 

 Palmer at 10 :50 a. m. 



The first business was the reports of com- 

 mittees. 



Thos. J. MofEett, chairman of the Committee 

 on Officers' Reports, read a report, as follows : 



Report of Committee on Officers' Reports. 



To the president and members of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association : Your committee 

 on officers' reports has carefully considered 

 the president's address and the report of your 

 secretary in detail. These papers are well 

 worthy of the most particular attention and 

 your committee recommends them to every mem- 

 ber for careful consideration." In an association 

 of this character such reports are practically 

 tlie only means of giving to the members a 

 statement of the work accomplished and of the 

 developments contemplated. For this reason, 

 and in view of the fact that the oflicers have 

 given their time and labored hard for the wel- 

 fare of the organization, it is certainly incumbent 

 upon every member of this association to give 

 these reports the consideration that is due. 



We recommend that the association endorse 

 the design now being used upon the stationery 

 of the association and adopt it as the othcial em- 

 blem, and that every member be urged to use 

 it upon stationery and in such other ways as 

 to popularize it and make of it a trade mark of 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Association. 



As to the question of the removal of the 

 headquarters of the association, we feel that this 

 is a matter for the board of managers to con- 

 sider, as has always been done in the past. 



Thos. J. Moffett, Chairman. 



It was moved and seconded that the report 

 be accepted, printed and circulated among the 

 members, and the motion carried. 



O. O. Agler, chairman, road the report of the 

 Committee on Rules and Credentials, which, upon 

 motion duly seconded, was adopted. The report 

 follows : 



Report of Committee on Credentials and 

 Rules. 



We, your committee, recommend that the elec- 

 tion of officers be held in the following manner : 

 Two tellers for each candidate to be appointed 

 by the president, who shall receive the ballots 

 and certify to the vote. The secretary shall call 

 the roll of complete list of members, and as each 

 is called one member of such firm or corporation 

 or dui.v authorized representative connected 

 with said firm or corporation, who shall identify 

 himself to this committee, shall deposit his bal- 

 lot, announcing to tellers name of firm or corpo- 

 ration and voter's connection with same. Should 

 any question arise as to the eligibility of anyone 

 offering a ballot, same to be decided by this 

 committee. 



O. O. Aglek, Chairman. 



T. R Stoxe. 



O. E. Yeagee. 



G. J. Laxdeck. 



R. .T. Daenell. 



M. M. Wall : I would like to ask if it is the 

 intention to vote on every office at one time. 

 There are five hundred names here to be called 

 off. and it will take a good deal of time to do 

 that. 



Mr. Agler : The idea was to vote separately 

 on each candidate, unless otherwise ordered. 



Mr. Wall : It would take us two days, with 

 five hundred names, to vote on each office to be 

 filled. 



President Palmer : The chairman recognizes 

 that this remark is entirely pertinent to the 

 subject, but I think the gentlemen present recog- 

 nize the fact that there will be but one con- 

 tested office, and the chair is of the belief that 

 the report of the Rules and Credentials Commit- 

 tee was intended to cover that. The chair has 

 no authority for the statement, and it is merely 

 his assumption. The question is on the adoption 

 of the report. 



Upon vote, the report w'as adopted. 



President Palmer : The next business is the 

 report of the Auditing Committee, but I am 

 informed the committee has not had time to 

 prepare its report. We will pass this. 



The hearing of the report of the Committee 

 on Forestry was also temporarily postponed. 



President Palmer : We have also a commit- 

 tee on the San Francisco relief fund. That com- 

 mittee is not ready to report. There have been 



a great many pledges made that have not yet 

 been redeemed, and until those pledges are 

 paid it will be impossible for the committee to 

 report. We have been unable to get enough 

 money pledged to do justice to the association, 

 and I w^ould like to see every gentleman come 

 forward a little more liberally. There are prob- 

 ably forty or fifty who were not here yesterday 

 morning, but before this session adjourns there 

 will be opportunity given them to subscribe to 

 this fund. It is important that the National 

 association should be properly represented in 

 this matter. I am not asking you to do God s 

 work in this matter, but I am asking you to do 

 man's work. That is all there is to it. There is 

 nothing doing. We must have some more money. 

 New business will be in order while we are 

 waiting on the reports. 



Secretary Fish then read the following letters 

 from E. F. Perry, secretary of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association : 



Letters from National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers' Association. 



New York, April 30. 1006. 

 F. F. Fish, Sec'y, National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, Memphis Tenn. : Stress 

 of circumstances has just compelled me 

 to cancel my hotel reservation and forego 

 the pleasure of meeting with you at your an- 

 nual meeting in Memphis. I had expected to go 

 right up to the present moment, but matters 

 have come up this afternoon which keep me from 

 being away from New York on Friday of this 

 week. I desire to thank you for your kind in- 

 vitation and regret my inability to be with you. 

 I wish for you, however, a very successful and 

 pleasant meeting, and hope for a visit from 

 you in New York. Yours very truly, 



E. F. Perry, Sec'y. 



New York. April 30. 1D06. 



F. F. Fish, Sec'y, National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association, Memphis, Tenn. : I am sending you 

 under separate cover a few copies of the joint 

 report of the railroad and transportation and 

 legislation committees, w'hich was given at our 

 annual meeting in Washington. A glimpse at 

 this will show you that it is largely in connec- 

 tion with car stake equipment matters, and on 

 page 23 is a little report of the conference at 

 Pittsburg on April 12. Possibly your officers 

 and directors will be interested in this letter. 

 Later we hope to send copies to each of your 

 members. 



1 am also sending you a few copies of the 

 complaint that has been filed before the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission against the western 

 roads. Yours very truly. 



E. F. Perry, Sec'y. 



Secretary Fish ; Mr. Perry further calls at- 

 tention to some literature which the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, in the 

 joint report of the transportation and legislation 

 committees is getting out. He says that all 

 our members will receive a copy. He has a 

 limited supply of these booklets, which the 

 members can get by calling for them after the 

 meeting. 



Mr. Pritchard was then called upon to read the 

 report of the committee on interstate commerce 

 transportation, which, upon motion duly sec- 

 onded, was adopted. The report was as fol- 

 lows : 



Report of Couunittee on Transportation. 



Matters. 



Gentlemen of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association : We, your committee, appointed to 

 consider the advisability of this association cre- 

 ating a standing committee on interstate com- 

 merce transportation of lumber, beg to report as 

 follows : 



We believe that thei-e are many questions on 

 interstate transportation of lumber of vital im- 

 portance to all members of our association which 

 should have the attention of the regular stand- 

 ing committee, and further that such a commit- 

 tee duly authorized by this association could se- 

 cure much better results than individual mem- 

 bers : therefore, 



Resolved, That this association authorize a 

 permanent standing committee of three to be 

 known as the "Interstate Commerce Transpor- 

 tation Committee'' and that the president be di- 

 rected to appoint the members of same annually. 

 J. M. Pritchard, Chairman. 

 A. B. Klise. 



W. A. BONSACK. 



President Palmer : If any member has any 

 business to be introduced while we are waiting 

 we would like to hear from him. 



