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and wish you unbounded success. We are glad to state that our organi- 

 zation was never in a more flourishing condition. We are pushing the 

 work of organization and education; our membership is encouraged 

 and hopeful, and we will heartily join you in any effort you may make, or 

 plan you may devise, for the amelioration of the condition of our people, 

 or to redress the wrongs of the long-suffering and patient, but over- 

 burdened farmers and laborers of the country, and that our committee 

 on co-operative trade be, and they are hereby, charged with the bearing 

 of this communication to said meeting. 



Given under my hand and seal of said association, the day and date 



above written. 



JOHN P. STEELE, Secretary. 



From the National Farmers' Alliance : 



ST. Louis, December 3, 1889. 

 To the Farmers and Laborers* Union of America : 



GENTLEMEN : The National Farmers' Alliance, in convention assem- 

 bled, have duly elected a committee of conference, consisting of nine 

 members, to meet with a like committee from your organization. 



Respectfully, 



J. BURROWS, 

 President National Farmers 1 Alliance. 



Committee from the National Alliance of the Northwest was then 

 announced in waiting. Brothers L. F. 'Livingston of Georgia, Mann 

 Page of Virginia, and L. L. Polk of North Carolina were appointed a 

 committee to receive the visiting committee and seat them on the plat- 

 form. After an interchange of views, the committee retired, and on 

 motion, the following Committee on Conference was appointed to confer 

 with the National Alliance of the Northwest : H. W. Hickman, Missouri ; 

 Mitchell, South Carolina ; Page, Virginia ; Clover, Kansas ; Lybrand, 

 Arkansas ; Patty, . Mississippi ; Tucker, Tennessee ; Anderson, Texas ; 

 and Morgan, Louisiana. 



Also the following committee was appointed to confer with the Mutual 

 Benefit Association : Davis, Missouri ; Clayton, Louisiana ; Gowan, 

 Tennessee ; Bird, Alabama ; and Worth, North Carolina. 



On motion, a committee of conference on cotton tare and bagging, 

 consisting of one from each cotton State, was appointed. 



The Committee on Conference then made a report as follows : 



The joint committee agree to recommend to our respective organiza- 

 tions the adoption of the following resolutions, to wit : 



