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be printed and transmitted with all convenient despatch to the several State 

 and Territorial Alliances, for consideration. 



"Resolved, 2d, That when as many as three-fourths of said State and 

 Territorial Alliances shall have ratified said proposed constitution and by- 

 laws, the president of the National Alliance and Co-operative Union shall 

 make proclamation to that effect; and when concurrent action shall have 

 been had by the National Wheel, the president this day elected by said joint 

 session shall make proclamation providing for the organic union of State, 

 County, and Sub-Alliances and Wheels respectively, in accordance with such 

 regulations as he may prescribe. 



" Resolved, That the present organization of the National Farmers' Alliance 

 and Co-operative Union of America be preserved intact, until such proposed 

 organic union shall have been effected. 



" Respectfully submitted, 



"ROBERT C. PATTY, 

 " Chairman, for the Committee. 



" REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL ORGAN. 



" The report of the Committee on National Organ was received and 

 adopted by unanimous vote. Their report was this proposition : 



" The undersigned hereby respectfully present the following plan and 

 proposal for your consideration and adoption : 



" We will organize a company, with ten shares of $1000 each, paid- 

 up capital, composed of good Alliance men, and will not increase the 

 number of shareholders, and will hold all the shares or any part of them 

 subject to purchase at full face value by the Farmers and Laborers' Union 

 of America, when that body has funds for investment in that enterprise. 

 Said company will start and run for a term o/ ten years, more or less, a 

 newspaper, to be not less than a four-page seven-column paper, issued 

 weekly, and devoted to the circulation of official news and the interests of 

 agriculture, and the general dissemination of the true principles of political 

 economy, strictly non-partisan in politics and non-sectarian in religion; to 

 be a clean and neat paper of high moral tone, such as will be a source of 

 true education to the youth, of emulation to those in active middle life, and 

 of congratulation and comfort to the aged. 



*' The company will execute a bond to the president of the order and his 

 successors in office, in the sum of $50,000, that all contracts by said , corpora- 

 tion with members of the order, either for subscriptions or advertising, 

 will be strictly carried out. Said company will, should you accept this prop- 

 osition, locate said paper in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, 

 and put it into successful operation on or before the first day of April, 1889, 

 and will furnish same to all yearly subscribers at one dollar per year. 

 " A. B. JOHNSON, Chairman. " BEN TERRELL, 

 " R. J. SLEDGE, " C. W r . MACUNE, 



"W. P. BRUSH, "R. J. SLEDGE, 



" J. A. TETTS, " HARRY TRACY, 



" ROBERT C. PATTY, Committee. 



