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part of the Wheel, to confer with a like committee, con- 

 sisting of L. L. Polk, G. B. Pickettand C. T. Smithson, 

 on the part of the Alliance. The committee met early on 

 the first day and agreed upon the following report : 



"We, your joint committee, appointed to consider a 

 plan for the consolidation of the National Agricultural 

 Wheel and the National Fanners' Alliance and Co-opera- 

 tive Union of America, beg leave to submit the following 

 report : 



i st. We most heartily recommend the proposed con- 

 solidation of the two Orders. 



2d. We recommend that the name of the consoli- 

 dated Order shall be the National Alliance- Wheel and Co- 

 operative Union of America. 



3d. We recommend that the two bodies meet in the 

 Court House, in this city, at three o'clock this afternoon 

 in joint session, or in committee of the whole, to be pre- 

 sided over by the President of the National Alliance. 



4th. We recommend that on all questions or matters 

 relating to the organic laws of such consolidated body, each 

 body shall be entitled to an equal number of votes, and on 

 all committees appointed to perfect such consolidation, the 

 two bodies are to have equal representation, to be deter- 

 mined by their respective Presidents. ' ' 



The report was adopted by both bodies, and at the 

 stated time they met in joint session. President Macune 

 appointed the following committee on Constitution and By- 

 Laws: G. B. Pickett, S. B. Alexander, R. T. Love, J. P. 

 Buchanan and A. T. Hatcher; and President McCracken 

 appointed W. S. Morgan, R. H. Morehead, J. M. Coulter, 

 T. W. Rogers and H. C. Brown to serve on the same com- 

 mittee. 



The committee reported a Constitution and By-Laws, 

 which were adopted with but little change. The Consti- 



