REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COM- 

 MITTEE, FIFTEENTH CONVENTION, 



1901 



IMMEDIATELY following adjournment of the last conven- 

 tion, the new executive committee met and organized for 

 the year, making choice of E. B. Voorhees for secretary 

 and H. H. Goodell for chairman. 



To the nine measures referred to it for consideration 

 careful attention has been paid, and such action taken as 

 the circumstances in each case seemed to warrant. First 

 in importance was the bill for the establishment of schools 

 or departments of mining and metallurgy in connection 

 with the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the me- 

 chanic arts. It will doubtless be remembered that during 

 the last session of Congress (Fifty-sixth Congress, First 

 Session) the Senate Committee on Mines and Mining re- 

 ported a bill (S. 3982) entitled "A bill to apply a portion 

 of the proceeds of the sale of the public lands to the endow- 

 ment, support, and maintenance of schools or departments 

 of mining and metallurgy in the several States and Terri- 

 tories, in connection with the colleges for the benefit of 

 agriculture and the mechanic arts, established in accord- 

 ance with the provisions of an act of Congress approved 

 July 2, 1862." 



The committee gave a very careful and detailed consider- 

 ation to all the provisions of the bill, and unanimously re- 

 ported it to the Senate with a favorable recommendation, 



