46 PROCEEDINGS OF TWENTY-SIXTH FRUIT-GROWERS' CONVENTION. 

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PROCEEDINGS OF SECOND DAY. 



Wednesday, December 4, 1901. 



President Cooper announced that the matter of the consular service 

 was laid over 3^esterday for the purpose of hearing Mr. Goodwin this 

 morning, but Mr. Goodwin not being present, the following business 

 was proceeded with: 



MR. RIGHTER. I have in mind that the President of the United 

 States has written a message to Congress, in which . he has recommended 

 a great many things for this Coast, in all of which we are deeply inter- 

 ested, and now I move that the President of this Convention appoint a 

 committee to draught suitable resolutions to that effect. 



PRESIDENT COOPER. I would say, in that regard, that the 

 province of this Convention is only to discuss and take up questions 

 which concern the fruit industry of the State of California, and that the 

 best plan — in fact, the only plan — of properly bringing that question 

 before the fruit-growers would be to appoint a committee to take that 

 matter in charge and to bring a resolution before this Convention 

 touching upon only those subjects in the message which concern the 

 fruit-growers. There are only two or three of those questions. One is 

 irrigation and forestr}^, and another is the oceanic canal. There may 

 be others also. 



MR. RIGHTER. Consular service also. 



PRESIDENT COOPER. Yes, those are three things that may 

 come before this Convention. You should separate those things, and 

 make it understood that this Convention meets only for the purpose of 

 advancing the interests of the fruit-growers. 



MR. MOTHERAL. I move that a committee be appointed to report 

 to this Convention covering those matters. 



Motion carried. 



DISCUSSION ON CONSULAR SEEVIOE. 



MR. ADAMS. There are certain things that can be had from con- 

 sular service. I know a great many people who are extensively 

 engaged in fruit-growing, yet with that knowledge were I to undertake 

 to get down and telegraph the exact condition of the prune or raisin 

 market here, the chances are sixteen to one that I would not get it 

 right. No one can get down to the business of the thing without 



