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that the present incumbent of the office of 

 treasurer. O. E. Yeaser. h*' re-elected hy ac- 

 clamation. 



Mr. Bennett: Hold (.n. Wt- )..'(. pit- in ('in 

 cinnatl have been after sonioiliinj; and wi' 

 haven't got it. We are with you ^'entlemen on 

 everything. Mr. Yeager has made us a good, 

 htmest treasurer. There is no iUK'stion of that; 

 but we have a man at t'incinnali. and we want 

 something there. We have asiied for it and we 

 ought to get it. I nominate Mr. J. Watt (Iraliam. 

 of Cincinnati for the office of treasurer, and I 

 move you that the nominations be closed and 

 that Mr. (iraham be elected by acclamation. 



Mr. ralmer: With the consent of my second 

 I wish to withdraw my nomination. 



l^resident Uusse : I have great pleasnic in 

 announcing' the election of J. Watt (Jrahain tn 

 the office of treasurer, and T would further 

 announce that the money will be in Cincinnati 

 the next year. 



Election of Directors. 



Mr. Palmer: In order to expedite Ibis busi- 

 ness I move that a committee be appointed by 

 the chair to bring in the names of six persons 

 to act as directors, hve of them for three years 

 and one to succeed Mr. Husse for one year. 



Motion seconded and carried. 



President Rtisse : I will appoint on that com- 

 mittee the following : J. W. Thompson, Allen 

 It. Vinnedge. Gardner I. Jones, A. IT. Barnard. 

 B. K. Thompson. We have another question 

 that has to he settled and we want some sug- 

 gestions regarding the place at whirh the next 

 meeting is to be held. 



Place of Next Meeting Selected. 



G. J. Landetk : Mr. P.-esideni and Gentlemen. 

 Wisconsin is in the field. Wisconsin has a city 

 that has a product which made it famous. You 

 all have beard of that city^Milwaukee. Mil- 

 waukee invites you to hold your next annual 

 convention in that city. I have with me letters 

 and a telegram from the mayor of Milwaukee, 

 who invites you and herewith extends to you 

 Milwaukee's invitation. 



Mr. McMillan : Mr. President, when we were 

 at Buffalo we invited you then. We did not 

 succeed on account of our friend and president 

 of the association, who sits in the chair now. 

 but I am glad that we did not get you last 

 year, for if we had I would not have had a 

 chance to come to Memphis and see this glori- 

 ous city and accept your hospitality and drink 

 your good water. [Laughter and applause.] 

 We have the greatest number of hotels of any 

 city of its size in the L'nited States, and every 

 one of these hotels are homes, where you will 

 think you are right at home and under mother's 

 wing. There is no more hospitable people on 

 the face of the earth than in that good old solid 

 German town. She is the convention town of 

 the United States. She has them from one 

 end of the country to the other and frofn 

 Canada. Come to Milwaukee. We will extend 

 to you the open hand and we will take good 

 care of you, and the minute you drop your 

 grip you will be assigned to a rotjm and will 

 not have to sleep double. 



Mr. Lloyd : Mr. President and Gentlemen : 

 Next year will be the tenth annual meeting 

 of this association. Ten years is a decade and 

 means something. This association has much to 

 be proud of and still has much before it, and 

 I want to ask the members to consider the ad- 

 visability of entering a new field. We have 

 never had a meeting east of P.uffalo. I have 

 here a little button, which you have all seen, 

 whicu Slates that New York, Boston. Baltimore 

 and Philadelphia extend an invitation to you. 

 This is not an invitation from any one city ; 

 it is an invitation from all four of those cities. 

 We want you to go to a place where you will 

 he able to keep cool ; where you can have greater 

 accommodations than in any other place in the 

 world; a place where you can take your w-ives. 

 They will enjoy it, and so will you. Within 

 the last year the membership in the East has 



increased very largely, but it was only a begin- 

 ninir. We have a field there that has barely been 

 t4)uched. I know many of you do not ship 

 much lumber East, but millions of feet are used 

 in the East, and Ihey get it somewhere. Tliere 

 are many sawndlls there not represented in this 

 association. The influence of your going East 

 will reach not only the wholesale dealers in the 

 East, many of whom have money invested in 

 sawmills and factories, but will reach to ibc 

 souibeasleni part of the country, where we 

 buy mu<h of our lumber. This is a national 

 organization. We want the North, the East, the 

 Siiuth and the West, and we want you to give 

 the East a ciiance. In May. 11H)T, opposite 

 Fortress Atonroe. in Chesapeake Pay. will be 

 lu'Id an exhitdrion. and to that exhibition are 

 coming the navies of the world. The T'niled 

 States Government has invited them and they 

 are coming:. If you go East you will have an 

 opportunity of witnessing some of the finest 

 naval maneuvers the world has ever seen, and 

 this will all take place a few days after our 

 next annua! meeting. I want to name a point 

 for tile meeting that has been agreed upon by 

 our members in New England. Boston, the Cen- 

 tral states. New York. Philadelphia. Pittsburg. 

 Baltim()re — a point that is within an hour's ride 

 of Philadelphia, two hours of New York, three 

 liniirs of Baltimore, where you can Imve j)lenty 

 of loom, and you will not have a Ini of noise 

 to buthcr you in the convention hall. T notice 

 ii nnnilier of friends here wearing buttons on 

 wbicli there is something about a bright spot. 

 [Meaning the Milwaukee button.] I want you 

 to come to a brighter spot, on the Atlantic 

 ocean. 1 knew that our generous friends from 

 Wisconsin will not feel very badly if you change 

 your minds and vote to go east. Our friends 

 fnun Wisc<n>sin are the most generous we have 

 and we ask them to pardon us for trampling on 

 their (oes in this way. We are now opening 

 up in the East with new members and our in- 

 spectors are busy all the time. Every carload 

 of lumber that is inspected in the East by a 

 national inspector adds to the importance of 

 this association. I do not know that I can 

 add anything more. 



Edward .1. Young: Wisconsin pnidnccs muie 

 hardwood than any state in this country. At 

 our convention a year ago we modestly sug- 

 gested our willingness to honor this association 

 by permitting it to hold a meeting within our 

 borders. Hardwood was not the thing that 

 made Milwaukee famous, but had it not been 

 for hardwood we realize we would not have 

 had the other product which is sold by the 

 bottle. Milwaukee is famed as a convention 

 city, and is able to afford ample entertain- 

 ment. 



Mr. Palmei- : We owe it to Milwaukee. Mil- 

 waukee went to Buffalo and tried to get it, and 

 she came awfully near doing it, and we told 

 them we would go there next year. Gentle- 

 men, if you are going to keep the faith, go to 

 Milwaukee. 



T. .1. ^lott'ett : If you will let a lamb that has 

 biMMi brovigbl to slaughter speak a U'vc min- 

 utes I wcuild like to be heard. I think this 

 association owes it to the East to go there this 

 year. We are strong in the West and In the 

 South, and if we would fulfil the destiny of 

 this association we must get more members in 

 the East than we have. As I understand it the 

 National Association is to work toward the 

 ideal of universal inspection. You can never 

 bring; tills about in the United States unless 

 I'very section of the United States is properly 

 represented in our association. The East is 

 not properly represented, and has not received 

 proper recognition. Personally I much prefer 

 that the meeting go to New^ York City, but inas- 

 much as the four cities on the Atlantic coast 

 have agreed on Atlantic City I do not think 

 there is anything else for this association to do 

 but to go there, and I sincerely hope that we 

 go there. 



.\<iw. genlb'inen, there is not a ftore spot 



anywhere in Memphis. We came down here to 

 lick Bill liusse. but we didn't. We are just 

 as much in favor of the National Association 

 as we ever w-ere, and Mr. Uusse will find no 

 section of the country that will hold up his 

 hands any stronger tliau the people of Cincin 

 nati will do. The Cincinnati delegation made 

 this association. In the early days the greatest 

 interest was manifested In this association in 

 Cincinnati, and when Chicago, with its timid- 

 ity, sent out its invitation, the hoys were afraid 

 llu're would not be a corporal's guard there, 

 hut wben <Mncinnali with a full carload went 

 up to ( 'hicago they said, "Boys, you saved the 

 day," and Cincinnati is the originator of this 

 association, and will not desert it. T cannot 

 think that any one in the association would be- 

 lieve that we would weaken because of our un- 

 successful fight in this election. And right here 

 I want to thank the gentlemen who supported 

 me; but, in addition to that, I want to pay a 

 tribute to the loyalty of Cincinnati. It is an 

 honor to me to have had the support of the 

 Cincinnati deleg;ation. Those boys never wav- 

 ered, and it compares well with the election. 

 Next to the presidency itself, this loyal support 

 is better than anything else. [Applause.] 



President Uusse : I wish to say that Mr. 

 Moffett not only has the good will of those 

 gentlemen hut he has the good will of the 

 entire association. He had me very liadly 



scared. I do not believe that any two candi- 

 dates we could select who would run a race 

 of this kind would feel sore over the result. I 

 believe the only thing that we all look to is the 

 good of the association, and the interest that 

 has been brought al»out by this contest has been- 

 the saving of the Memphis meeting. It has 

 saved us a lot of money in booze — I am not re- 

 ferring to Mr. Mc^Iilian — but I appreciate Mr. 

 Moffett's remarks, and I was satisfied that, if I 

 could secure the honor of being president for 

 the coming yeai-. I would have his support, and 

 not only his but the entire Cincinnati delega- 

 tion, including mir nwn dear Billy. [Applause.] 



Mr. Curry : I dn not think 1 need tell you 

 what I am here for. The chief thing that Mil- 

 waukee has advanced in support of having the 

 convention there is the fact that it has a local 

 product wbi<-h made it famous. The reason 

 that we want you to come to Atlantic City is 

 not for the liquid refreshments dispensed there 

 but the fact that we think the East should have 

 some favor shown it. Von were compelled until 

 a short time ago to sell your lumber on Phila- 

 delphia rules of inspection ; in New York they 

 had standard New York inspection rules, and it 

 has only been liy the <*ombined efforts of the 

 eastern memln'is Dial it has been possible to 

 sell our product im the rules of the National 

 ilardW'Ood Lumlier Association. 



Theo. Fathauer: On behalf of the Chicago 

 contingency, believing that it is very important 

 that our next annual meeting should be held 

 at some central point, which can be reached 

 liy the greatest nunibei- in the shortest possi- 

 l)le time. I move ynu that we accept the invlta- 

 ti<m of Milwaukee. 



M(jti<ui secondetl. 



President Uusse put the motion to a vote, 

 but in the noise and confusion it was impossi- 

 ble to determine the result. 



Mr. Bennett : Mr. President. 1 think it would 

 be very nice to go to Atlantic City, if Atlantic 

 City was to entertain us. If the association, so 

 as not to be an expense on the city it goes to, 

 would cut out the banquet I would be in favor 

 nf Atlantic City. The lumbermen there cannot 

 take care <tf us. If the people in the lOast de- 

 sire to entertain us and will permit us to pay 

 for the banquet tickets, or if we cut out the 

 banquet. I say go to Atlantic City. I think 

 the best thing to do is to cut out the ban- 

 (piets. 



President Uusse: There is a motion before 

 the house. 



Mr. ^McMillan : Mr. Chairman, we ask you to 

 go to ^liiwaukee liecanse we want to entertain 



