22 SUPPRESSION OF INSECT PESTS AND PLANT DISEASES. 



committee, whose duty it shall be to represent the general committee and the conven- 

 tion before Congress iu securing such legislative action as may be recommendedbytlie 

 general committee or the convention, and the chairman of the general committee 

 shall have power to fill vacancies in either committee. 



Resolutiox Relative to Adjournment. 



Mr. Brown, of Conuecticut, offered the following resolution, wliicli was 

 also adopted: 



Resolved, That when this convention, adjourns it shall adjourn to meet at the call 

 of the president, vice i)resident, and secretary, who shall notify the associations and 

 institutions now represented m the convention and other associations of similar 

 character. 



The convention then adjourned to meet at 10 a. m. Saturday. 



Morning Session, Saturday, March 6, 1897. 



Resolutions Relative to State Legislation against Insect and Fungous 



Pests. 



The convention was called to order at 11 a. m. The following as to 

 State legislation was reported by the committee on legislation and was 

 adopted : 



(1) That each State should provide for the proper inspection of nurseries and other 

 premises for the detection of the presence of the San Jose scale or other dangerously 

 injurious insects or plant diseases. 



(2) That each State should i)rovide for the proper and timely application of the 

 most approved remedial or preventive treatment when found necessary. 



(3) That should packages of nursery stock, etc., be shipped into a State contrary 

 to law, i. e., without proper inspection certificates attached, it ought to be so han- 

 dled as to receive proper inspection and not be destroyed unless condemned by proper 

 and competent authority. 



(4) That each State should cooperate in securing the passage and enforcement of 

 a national law providing against the introduction and dissemination of San .lose 

 scale and other dangerously^ injurious insects and plant diseases by means of inijiorts 

 or through interstate commerce. 



Discussion of Bill Relating to Interstate and International Legislation 

 AGAINST Insect and Fungous Pests. ^ 



The same committee then reported the draft of a bill relating to 

 interstate and international phases of the subject. It was agreed that 

 the proposed bill be read, discussed, and adopted by sections. (The 

 bill as adopted is given on p. 29 in full.) 



Section 1 was read by the secretary, and was discussed as follows : 

 Mr. Alwood. What I say now I should have said before the taking 

 up of this section, but I failed to rise at the time. It is simply a word 

 of outline. The committee thought it unwise to provide for any specific 



iNo full official report of this discussion was made by the secretaries, but learning 

 that Mr. Howard had made a stenographic report for his own information, the editor 

 has asked his permission to publish it'in the proceedings, as the discussion'was inter- 

 esting and important. 



