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which he belongs, and to use his influence in behalf of the 

 best men, regardless of professions or occupations." 



A resolution making the members of the Agricultural 

 Press League honorary members of the Congress was unani- 

 mously adopted, as was a resolution thanking the people of 

 St. Paul and the State of Minnesota for their cordial welcome. 



Secretary Stine of the Commercial Club gave a cordial invi- 

 tation to the delegates to make the club rooms their head- 

 quarters during the session. 



A committee of three, of whom Mr. Candage of Massachu- 

 setts was one, was appointed on the president's address; a 

 committee of five was appointed on credentials, which 

 exhausted the morning hour ; and Congress took a recess 

 for dinner, to reassemble at 2 o'clock p.m. 



At the afternoon session the committee on credentials 

 reported thirty-one States and two Territories, represented 

 by upwards of three hundred delegates ; New England being 

 represented by Mr. Moody of Maine, by Messrs. Avery, 

 Candage and Porter of Massachusetts and by Mr. Stockwell 

 of Rhode Island, — New Hampshire, Vermont and Connecti- 

 cut having no delegates. 



A committee of one delegate from each State and Territory 

 was appointed on resolutions, Messrs. Moody, Candage and 

 Stockwell being the New England members of that com- 

 mittee ; a committee of five on finance ; a committee of seven 

 on location of the next Congress, of which Mr. Avery of 

 Massachusetts was one ; and Mr. Avery was also appointed 

 sergeant-at-arms . 



After the completion of routine business, the reading of 

 papers was taken up, and the reading and discussion was 

 opened by Mr. Candage of Massachusetts, by a paper on 

 " The value of river and harbor improvements and shipping 

 to agriculture." 



After its reading, an animated and interesting discussion 

 followed ; its arguments were duly considered and agreed to, 

 and later were unanimously adopted, under suspension of 

 the rules, in two resolutions embodying the gist of the 

 paper. 



Other papers followed : " The best methods of further in- 

 creasing the usefulness and practical value of agricultural 



