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asked the Legislature of Iowa to build a system of narrow 

 guage railroads in the State. The following resolution was 

 adopted with respect to the land-grant bill then before Con 

 gress : 



&quot;Resolved, By the State Grange of the Patrons of Hus 

 bandry, that the Worthy Master be requested to telegraph 

 to President Grant their earnest desire that he interpose 

 his veto on the bill recently passed by the House of Repre- 

 sentatives of the United States, making or confirming addi 

 tional grants of lands to railroads in this State.&quot; 



A memorial was adopted asking the legislature to regu 

 late railroad tariffs. Resolutions were passed appointing a 

 Grange agent for each railroad in the State ; and organiz 

 ing the entire Grange of Iowa into a company for the reduc 

 tion of express rates. 



The report of the Finance Committee, which was adopted, 

 recommended that the Master should receive a salary of 

 seven hundred dollars per annum, each member of the Ex 

 ecutive Committee one hundred and fifty dollars, and the 

 Treasurer two hundred dollars. 



A motion was adopted that the memorial of the Grange 

 in regard to railroad legislation be presented to the Presi 

 dent of the Senate and the Speaker of the House. 



At the meeting of the Executive Committee, there were 

 appointed a State Agent, and an agent for each of the main 

 lines of the East and West railroads in the State, whose 

 duty it should be to attend to all railroad interests of the 

 Granges, such as making freight rates, and seeing to 

 prompt and safe shipment of all Grange freights. 



A. B. Smedley, of Howard County, the newly-elected 



Master of the State Grange and Chairman of the Executive 



Committee, was appointed Grange Agent for the McGregor 



Western Railroad ; E. R. Shankland, of Dubuque, agent for 



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