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a rising vote of the delegates of this Convention be given in^the affirma- 

 tive of this motion. 



VICE-PRESIDENT STABLER. Gentlemen, those in favor of the 

 motion will signify it by rising. 



Carried unanimously. 



MR. McINTOSH. I return thanks to the Convention for its extremely 

 courteous and emphatic manner of thanking me. 



RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO THE FRUIT-GROWING INDUSTRY OF 



CALIFORNIA. 



GENERAL CHIPMAN. Mr. Chairman, before we adjourn I would 

 like to offer the following resolution expressing the general feeling of 

 the members of this Convention : 



Resolved, That it is the sense of the California fruit-growers, in convention assembled, 

 that the fruit-growing industry of California is in a generally satisfactory and prosperous 

 condition. 



Motion seconded. 



MR. STEPHENS. I desire to say, Mr. Chairman, that, as I have 

 already stated, in a general sense, so far as raisins are concerned, so far 

 as dried fruits are concerned, this resolution is all right; but I am not 

 willing to vote for such a resolution, not willing it should pass without 

 a protest, under the circumstances, until these reliefs have come which 

 it is said are coming. The organization referred to by Mr. Judd can 

 not come to California and buy fruit, it can not receive from anybody 

 here fruit consignments, except by and with the confirmation of the 

 Armour Car Company alone. No man. General Chipman or any one 

 else, would dare to enter into competition with it. You can't do it. 

 We want that power taken away from it. We want the Southern 

 Pacific Company to remove that incubus which hangs, like a pall, over 

 this great and glorious State. General Chipman has said that the pro- 

 portion which the green fruit shipments bear to the whole of the fruit 

 shipments is small. That is true, but if we could dispose of three or 

 four times as much green fruit as is now being disposed of you would 

 relieve the pressure of the dried fruit market, you would not be com- 

 pelled to resort to the drying of your fruits as you are now. 



VICE-PRESIDENT McINTOSH. Excuse me, Mr. Stephens. The 

 Chair will certainly have to rule as regards this resolution that it can 

 not be segregated for the purposes of discussion. To get the propo- 

 sition down to a single product, and one that is comparatively small, is 

 certainly taking advantage of the man who introduced the resolution. 

 If in your judgment the resolution as a whole is erroneous, it is your 

 privilege to controvert it. 



MR. STEPHENS. I wish to argue against it from this standpoint, 



