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each National and State agricultural and industrial organ- 

 ization in the United States be requested to assemble in 

 the city of Washington, on 22d day of February, A. D. 

 1890, to consider and agree upon a basis for a federation 

 of such organizations for the purpose of securing needed 

 reform and remedial National and State legislation, and 

 for the promotion of such other objects as may be found 

 to be of common interest to such organizations; it being 

 understood that such plans as agreed upon shall be sub- 

 mitted to the various National and State organizations 

 participating therein for ratification and adoption. 



"2. That an Executive Committee of two each on 

 the part of the National Fanners' Alliance and the 

 National Farmers' and Laborers' Union be appointed, 

 with authority to take all necessary steps to carry out the 

 foregoing resolution, and to arrange for an immediate 

 federation of said organizations, if same be now possible. 



"3. That the President of the National Farmers' 

 Alliance and National Farmers' and Laborers' Union and 

 the General Master Workman of the Knights of L,abor, 

 now in this city, be authorized and requested to take all 

 necessary steps to carry out the foregoing resolutions, and 

 to arrange for an immediate federation, if the same be 

 now possible." 



The following resolution relative to taking census 

 was read and adopted: 



" WHEREAS, Statements are often made and the belief 

 is growing, that we are becoming a nation of landlords 

 and tenants, and that the homes and farms of the country 

 are very largely under mortgage, and 



u WHEREAS, Exact knowledge on this subject is of 

 great importance in the study of the social and economic 

 questions of the day; therefore, be it resolved by the 

 National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, 



<( i. That Robert P. Porter, Superintendent of the 



