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Mr. Appleton was chairman, to present the compliments of 

 the Congress to the Ex-President, and invite him to address 

 the bod}'. 



Resolutions were offered and referred as follows : susi:- 

 gesting S. AV. Allerton of Illinois as secretarv of agricult- 

 m'e ; asking the United States Congress to appoint a corps 

 of engineers to examine and report the feasibility of a ship 

 canal from the lakes to the Mississippi River, connecting 

 the Atlantic with the Gulf by internal communication ; that 

 women should be entitled to full suffrage ; for ecjual and just 

 taxation of all property ; for the restriction of undesirable 

 immigration ; regulating foreign immigration by a per cajoita 

 tax ; for more stringent regulations regarding cattle with 

 tuberculosis ; that all farm products be exempt from taxa- 

 tion ; in favor of a referendum and a graded land tax ; 

 favoring the use of latest and most improved machinery in 

 road building, cities and towns to bear a just proportion of 

 the expense of road building ; that the Congress demands 

 that the laws against trusts l)e enforced and inadequate laws 

 be strengthened. 



The committee on resolutions reported favorably' on most 

 of these resolutions later, and they were adopted hy the 

 Congress. 



Papers were read as follows : By A. W. Livingston of 

 Ohio, on " Seed adulteration and its remedies." He urged 

 the farmers to use none but the best seeds, if they expected 

 to gather good crops. Otto Dorner of Wisconsin, a member 

 of the national committee of the L. A. W., read a paper on 

 the subject of good roads, giving illustrations of the benefits 

 to city, town and farm by good roads. Mrs. Katherine 

 Stahl of Illinois read a paper on the " Citizenship of woman." 

 She urged that women are competent in all spheres of life, 

 and her success in the business world as one proof of her 

 proposition ; another was the patriotic interest taken by 

 them in the affairs of government, and that it would be wise 

 governmental policy to recognize Avomen. Miss Ada M. 

 Ewing of Iowa read a paper on " The advancement of agri- 

 culture in the north-west," which was well received. 



An important feature of the day was the introduction to 

 the Congress, by the President, of Seiior A. M. Sotaldo, a 



