THE; COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT ORGANIZATION, through its Chair- 

 man, Hon. John W. Dwight, reported submitting the following 

 list of seventeen names for a Committee on Permanent Or- 

 ganization, and the gentlemen named were unanimously elected 

 members of such Committee; namely, 

 W. C. Brown, President, New York Central Lines. 



E. G. Miner, Rochester, N. Y. 



Geo. A. Frisbie, President, Chamber of Commerce, Utica, N. Y. 



R. A. Pearson, Commissioner of Agriculture, of the State of New York. 



F. M. Godfrey, Master of New York State Grange, Olean, N. Y. 



W. C. Barry, President Western New York Horticultural Society, Roches- 

 ter, N. Y. 



F. D. Underwood, President, Erie Railroad Company. 



Welding Ring, President New York Produce Exchange, New York. 



George W. Thayer, Rochester, N. Y. 



Chas. W. Larmon, State Labor Department, Albany, N. Y. 



Wm. McCarroll, President, New York Board of Trade and Transporta- 

 tion. 



W. W. Cocks, Member of Congress from Long Island. 



W. T. Noonan, President, Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad Com- 

 pany. 



E. B. Thomas, President, Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. 



Ralph Peters, President, Long Island Railroad Company. 



W. H. Truesdale, President, Delaware, Lackawa-nna & Western Railroad 

 Company. 



John W. Dwight, Member of Congress from Thirteenth District of New 

 York. 



The foregoing Committee to be subject to the call of Mr. W. C. 

 Brown. 



HON. JOHN W. DWIGHT: 



"The question of possibly some legislation from the Department 

 of Agriculture, or the Department of Commerce and Labor, should 

 be taken up briefly. I should like to hear from Mr. Larmon, of that 

 Department, as to bills pending, for a few moments." 



MR. CHARLES W. LARMON, Chief of Office of Farm Labor, State of 



New York, said: 



"Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: I regret very much that 

 the representative of the Department of Commerce and Labor failed 

 to go a little deeper into the great importance of the immigrant in 

 this movement for conserving soil fertility and producing greater 

 crops in the State of New York. When we consider the vast im- 



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