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collect information on the best means of providing limited water supplies 

 for dry farms and report the results of its labors at the next annual meeting. 

 By appointing these standing committees on these subjects, these standing 

 committees would keep in touch with certain branches of the work from the 

 time you meet here, say until you meet in some other state next year, and 

 I would suggest, Mr. President, that you appoint a standing committee 

 of five members, whose duties it shall be to collect information on, these 

 subjects and report at the next annual meeting. 



I thank you, gentlemen, for the attention you have given me. (Ap- 

 plause.) 



CHAIRMAN DERN: The next thing in order will be the report from 

 the chairman of the committee on resolutions, Mr. Chilcott. 



MR. CHILCOTT: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: We seem 

 to be up against a condition. Professor Fortier, who has just addressed 

 you, found it necessary to leave, and therefore he took my place on the 

 program. I was very glad to be able to do him this courtesy, but you 

 know there is one thing about the people down there at Washington, when 

 they get agoing they are very apt to talk and consume more time than 

 they figure on. The time that was to be used by Professor Fortier and 

 myself previous to the election of officers has been consumed, and in 

 order to expedite matters, it occurred to the resolution committee that if 

 a committee were appointed, a nominating committee, that could receive 

 the nominations from the delegates from the various states and could 

 get them in such shape to present to this body it would save much time. 

 While that committee was in action we could go on with the regular 

 program. It is not the purpose of this resolution to take from the dele- 

 gates from the several states the power of appointing their representatives 

 on the executive committee nor to interfere in any way with their views 

 in the nomination of the officers of the convention. It is simply a part 

 of the machinery to expedite the business of this Congress. Therefore 

 your resolutions committee wishes to submit this report for your con- 

 sideration, and hopes that you may adopt it in order to expedite matters. 



RESOLVED, That it is the sense of your committee on resolutions 

 that owing to the short time for preparation for the selection of your 

 officers and executive committee under the amendment to the constitution, 

 it would avoid confusion in the convention to have such officers and com- 

 mittee selected by a committee on nominations, consisting of five accredited 

 delegates to be named at once by the chairman of the Congress, such 

 committee to receive nominations from state delegations as proAnded by 

 the Constitution, nominations to close at 12 o'clcock noon, and to be 

 reported back to the Congress before the close of this session. 



MR. CHAIRMAN: I move the adoption of this committee report by 

 the convention. 



MR. ATKINSON: T second the motion. 



CHAIRMAN DERN: You have heard the motion. Are you ready 

 for the question? 



The motion was then put to a vote and declared carried. 



