1 62 AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS. 



sonal and official reputation of our worthy president, L. L. Polk ; but we 

 regret the writing of the Norwood letter. 



2. That as to Brother Livingston, president of the Georgia State Alli- 

 ance, we do not find anything derogatory of his personal or official high 

 standing or integrity, but your committee is not quite prepared to indorse 

 the course of Brother Livingston in the Georgia senatorial contest. 



3. That in the case of Brother Macune nothing has been found, after 

 the most rigid investigation, to lessen our confidence in his personal 

 integrity and loyalty to the order ; however, we regret his official con- 

 nection with the Georgia senatorial contest. Adopted. 



ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 



L. L. Polk was elected President ; B. H. Clover was elected Vice- 

 President; J. H. Turner was elected National Secretary. Moved that 

 the election of Treasurer be deferred until a report from the Committee 

 on Constitution is received. Carried. J. H. Willits of Kansas was 

 elected Lecturer; J. Fount. Tillman was elected to fill vacancy on 

 Executive Board; A. E. Cole of Michigan was elected member of 

 Judiciary Board. 



The following were elected to constitute the Committee of Confedera- 

 tion with the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association, and other organiza- 

 tions : Ben Terrell, L. F. Livingston, R. F. Rogers, H. L. Loucks, W. J. 

 Talbert. 



FIFTH DAY. 

 AFTERNOON SESSION. 



Various amendments to the constitution were offered and adopted. 



Resolved, That this Supreme Council reindorse the National Econ- 

 omist, and actions of Brother C. W. Macune and his associates in said 

 paper, and will do all we can to urge them onward in the good work of 

 education. 



Adopted unanimously, by rising vote. 



Report of Committee on Salutation and Fraternal Relations between 

 the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union and Colored 

 Farmers' National Alliance and Co-operative Union : 



Your committee n above beg leave to report that we visited the 

 Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Co-operative Union committee, 

 and were received with the utmost cordiality, and after careful consulta- 

 tion it was mutually and unanimously agreed to unite our orders upon 

 the basis adopted December 5, 1890, a basis between the National 



