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AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS. 



considered approved security; and that the circulating medium be 

 increased to at least $50 per capita, keeping the volume equal to the 

 demand. 



For this the following substitute was adopted, to which Wade of Ten- 

 nessee had his name withdrawn from this portion of the report : - 



i. a. We demand the abolition of national banks. 



b. We demand that the government shall establish sub-treasuries or 

 depositories in the several States, which shall loan money direct to the 

 people at a low rate of interest, not to exceed two per cent per annum, 

 on non-perishable farm products, and also upon real estate, with proper 

 limitations upon the quantity of land and amount of money. 



c. We demand that the amount of the circulating medium be speedily 

 increased to not less than $50 per capita. 



The vote by States, on the first proposition, was as follows : 



YES. No. 



Alabama 4 



Arkansas Alliance 2 



Arkansas Union 2 



Indian Territory 2 



Florida 3 



North Dakota 2 



South Dakota 3 



Kentucky 4 



Pennsylvania, not voting. 



Michigan 3 



Louisiana 4 



Mississippi 2 I 



Indiana 2 



Illinois 2 



Missouri 2 4 



Georgia 7 



North Carolina 4 



YES. No. 



Virginia 4 



West Virginia 2 



New York I 



Kansas 8 



South Carolina 4 



Texas 4 



Colorado, not voting. 



Tennessee I 3 



Maryland 2 



California 2 



L. L. Polk, President . . . . I 



B. H. Clover, Vice-President . I 

 J. H. Turner, Secretary . . . I 



C. W. Macune, Chr. Ex. ... I 



E. Jones, Judiciary Com. . . . Absent. 



A. Wardall I 



Tennessee, in voting i aye and 3 no, explained that they would have 

 voted 4 aye on the section as it came from the committee before it was 

 amended. 



2. That we demand that Congress shall pass such laws as will effectu- 

 ally prevent the dealing in futures of all agricultural and mechanical 

 productions; providing a stringent system of procedure in trials that 

 will secure the prompt conviction, and imposing such penalties as shall 

 secure the most perfect compliance with the law. Adopted. 



3. We condemn the silver bill recently passed by Congress, and 

 demand in lieu thereof the free and unlimited coinage of silver. 

 Adopted. 



