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California that we cannot properly express our appreciation of this welcome. 

 I only wish that our brethren might have been here from that other Conti- 

 nent across the Atlantic and have seen what we people of the East have seen 

 the wondrous development of this Western land. I have never seen any- 

 thing in all my travels that at all compares with the wonderful development 

 in this State in one generation. 



"I cannot reply to this address of welcome without saying a few words 

 for our absent brethren. For four years I have been laboring over the pre- 

 liminaries of this Congress. Many of the best men of Europe interested in 

 viticulture were anxious to come to California, the land of wonder. 



"M. Prosper Gervais, of the National Agricultural Society of France, in 

 a letter a few days ago stated to me: 'My son, my only son, is dead on the 

 plains of Flanders. I cannot come.' Baron von Buhl, President of the German 

 Wine Association, hoped to take part in the Congress. He wrote a long 

 letter of regret. 'We cannot leave the Fatherland now; it is impossible,' he 

 says. Dr. Ludwig Basserman- Jordan of Neustadt, Rhein Pflaz, Germany, is 

 dead. Dr. Clemente Grimaldi of Sicily is dead. Mr. M. Battanchon, Inspector 

 General of Agriculture of France, is dead, and others whom I have not time 

 to mention. 



"Thus many of our former colleagues have fallen, and on the part of this 

 Congress I wish to express our sincere sympathy." 



President Alwood named the members of the following committees: 



COMMITTEE ON ENTERTAINMENT. 

 Mr. C. J. Wetmore, Chairman. Mr. V. Walsh. 



Mr. S. Federspiel. Mr. F. Frohman. 



Mr. H. F. Stoll. Mr. R. C. Dewey. 



COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION. 



Mr. William B. Alwood. Mr. E. M. Sheehan. 



Mr. U. P. Hedrick. Mr. H. F. Stoll. 



Mr. F. T. Bioletti. 



COMMITTEE ON PUBLICITY. 

 Mr. H. F. Stoll. Mr. L. J. Vance. 



COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. 



Mr. C. Bundschu, Chairman. Mr. E. M. Sheehan. 



Mr. S. Federspeil. Mr. L. W. Southwick. 



Mr. Lee J. Vance. 



COMMISSION ON ORGANIZATION. 



Mr. Dewey moved that the commission now sitting be elected as officers 

 of the permanent organization. Unanimously carried. 



COMMITTEE ON ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

 Mr. Hiram Dewey, Chairman. Mr. C. J. Wetmore. 



Mr. D. H. Maxfield. Mr. H, Gundlach. 



Mr. F. T. Bioletti. 



The presentation, reading and discussion of papers submitted to the 

 Congress followed. 



