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Resolved, That such committee shall meet at an early date, and shall request the 

 attendance of all interested parties with the view of harmonizing such conflicting 

 interests as may exist ; and be it 



Resolved, That all commercial shippers, fruit-growers, and other persons be and are 

 hereby respectfully requested to respond to any request of such committee for attend- 

 ance, and lend to it their most earnest support. 



The resolutions were then adopted by a unanimous vote. 



APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEE. 



President Cooper named the following as the committee provided 

 for in the resolutions: H. Weinstock, of Sacramento; Joseph Martin, of 

 the California Green and Dried Fruit Company; H. A. Fairbanks, of 

 the National Fruit Association; Wm. Johnston, of Courtland; A. T. 

 Hatch, of Suisun; R. D. Stephens, of Sacramento; and Frank H. Buck, 

 of Vacaville. 



DISCUSSION ON MARKETING— RESUMED. 



Mr. Weinstock : I wish to take the floor to reply to some of the state- 

 ments made by Mr. Stephens. I am frank to confess that Mr. Stephens' 

 position is not clear to me. I do not know what he wants. He has 

 said that he is in favor of the one auction room. Then he has gone 

 back and dwelt upon the conditions of the season just closed, but he 

 does not, in any way, show us how mistakes, which he holds were made, 

 might be avoided, and how a betterment might be brought about. He 

 simply says he is not in sympathy with some of the things as conducted 

 last year, and further says, " I am in favor of one auction room," and 

 that is practically all he said. He has said that these resolutions are in 

 the direction of repeating the conditions of the past. There is where 

 he is wrong. The purpose of these resolutions is to avoid the repetition 

 of any errors which may have been made last year. Mr. Stephens has 

 touched upon certain points that are a reviewal of the conditions of the 

 past, and which, in the manner he has stated them, cast a reflection on 

 the managers of the California Fruit Growers and Snippers' Association, 

 and I cannot allow them to go uncontradicted. For the information of 

 the growers assembled here to-day, and in order to correct certain mis- 

 taken notions, and in order to contradict the statements which Mr. 

 Stephens has made, I shall beg of you to permit me to reply to the points 

 made by Mr. Stephens. The first point that Mr. Stephens made was 

 that the California Fruit Growers and Shippers' Association in 1895 

 was absolutely under the control of Messrs. Earl and Porter, and that 

 he, for one, was not prepared to place his business under their control. 

 I do not like to charge Mr. Stephens with insincerity. He and I have 

 been friends for many years, and I have a high regard for him, but I 

 must say that when he states that it would compel him to place his 

 business under their control, he knows better, because he knows it to 

 be a fact that every member of the association reserves the right to 

 select his own receiver and his own auctioneer. The grower who joins 

 the association gives up none of his rights; he unquestionably retains 

 the privilege of selecting his own receiver and his own auctioneer. Mr. 

 Stephens knows that it is impossible for Mr. Earl or Mr. Porter to have 

 things their own way. He knows he could select Brown & Secomb, 



