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Virginia : Mann Page, G. T. Barbee, G. Chrisman, Robert Beverley. 



West Virginia: S. A. Houston, T. R. Carskadon. 



New York : D. F. Allen. 



Minnesota : W. E. Fish. 



California: J. S. Barbee, D. C. Vestal. 



The report was taken up in sections and adopted seriatim. 



The report of the Committee on Credentials, where the dues were 

 paid, was adopted as a whole, and said delegates seated. 



Joseph S. Barbee of California handed in the application and fee for 

 the charter for California State Alliance. 



SECOND DAY. 



Resolution by Alonzo Wardall of South Dakota, adopted unani- 

 mously : 



Whereas, The National Council of the Colored Farmers' Alliance is 

 now in session in this city ; and whereas we are engaged in a common 

 cause, and our interests are mutual : therefore, 



Resolved, That a committee of five from this body be appointed to 

 wait upon them with our cordial fraternal greeting, and extend to them 

 our earnest invitation to join us in such action as shall tend to unite our 

 strength in forwarding the cause we love so well. 



The committee was appointed as follows : Alonzo Wardall, Chairman ; 

 George Chrisman ; W. C. Lightfoot. 



Resolution by Brother Beverley read and adopted, instructing commit- 

 tee on Constitution to consider the advisability of providing for congres- 

 sional district Alliances. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The following resolution was adopted : 



Whereas, The President of the United States, in his annual message 

 to Congress, recommends and urges the immediate passage of a meas- 

 ure known as the Lodge election bill ; and whereas, the said bill involves 

 a radical revolution in the elective machinery of this Union, both State 

 and national, and its passage will be fatal to the autonomy of the States 

 and to the cherished liberties of the citizens ; and whereas, in the holy 

 war which we have declared against sectionalism, the firesides of the 

 farmers of the North, South, East, and West are the citadels around 

 which the heaviest battles are being fought, and to the end that victory 

 may crown our crusade, let fraternity and unity reign : therefore, be it 



Resolved, By the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, in 



