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tion. The member so provided has no authority, so far as the future is 

 concerned, by his membership. He does not carry the authority that 

 comes with the delegate. Do I make the difference clear? The Governor, 

 or Mayor, or other duly authenticated person according to the constitu- 

 tion appoints a delegate. That man may also be a member of the Con- 

 gress by the payment of his dues. He may be a member without being a 

 delegate, or he may be a delegate without being a member. They are two 

 distinctly different things. 



MR. RIEPE, from Nevada: I myself am a mining man, but I am in- 

 terested in this proposition. In that association I believe the delegates 

 are appointed on the same proposition as here, or on some proposition 

 like this, and there not being anything in their constitution still members 

 are admitted. The Mississippi Congress charges five dollars a year, and 

 they have members and they have delegates, and as I understand this 

 it is on the same proposition. Therefore I hope that this resolution will 

 pass and one and all of you will come up and pay your little dollar in 

 order to keep the business of the Congress running. We can't do any- 

 thing without money. (Applause.) 



MR. ATKINSON: I believe that the gentleman from Utah was cor- 

 rect when he said that this would require an amendment to the constitu- ^ 

 tion. I believe, as I understand, the proposition has been an entirely de- 

 sirable one, and the constitution can be amended to cover this new feature 

 of membership. I therefore move this matter be referred to the committee 

 on resolutions and reported back to the house here at the earliest possible 

 date. 



Motion duly seconded. 



MR. ADNEY, of Utah: I am very much in favor of both the resolu- 

 tion and the motion, but I think that some suggestion as to the feeling 

 of the house should be indicated to the committee on resolutions. Indi- 

 vidually it seems to me that an amendment which will* provide that all 

 delegates become either affiliated or life members should be added. (Ap- 

 plause.) 



CHAIRMAN BURRELL: That can be taken up as soon as this ques- 

 tion is disposed of. Are you ready for the question? 

 Question called for. 



The motion was put to a vote and declared carried. 



MR. ADNEY, of Utah: I move you that for future conventions of 

 the Dry Farming Congress each and every delegate to that convention be 

 either an affiliated or a life member of this Congress. 



Motion duly seconded. 



CHAIRMAN BURRELL: I believe that the gentleman from Utah 

 intends to have that as the sense of the convention conveyed to the Com- 

 mittee on Resolutions. Isn't that it? 



MR. ADNEY: I accept the suggestion of the chair. 



CHAIRMAN BURRELL: You have all heard the question. Are you 

 ready for the question? 



