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SECRETARY ROOT: Another report from the Executive Committee. 

 Minority report of the Executive Committee of the Trans-i\Iissouri 

 Dry Farming Congress: 



The undersigned begs leave to submit and recommend the following 

 change in the majority report: 



Place of ^sleeting. — To substitute- the words "Douglas, Arizona," in 

 place of "Cheyenne, Wyoming." 



Respectfully submitted, 



GEORGE J. M'CABE. 



CHAIRMAN BOWMAN: Gentlemen, you have heard the reading 

 ■of the report of the Executive Committee. What is your pleasure? 



MR. BUFFUIM, of Wyoming: I move the adoption of the majority 

 report of the Executive Committee, as read. 



^IR. COOK, of Cheyenne, Wyo.: I second the motion. 



CHAIRMAN BOWMAN: It has been moved and -seconded that the 

 majority report of the Executive Committee be approved. Are there any 

 remarks? 



;MR. FRED J. KIESEL, of Utah: I wish to substitute a name in place of 

 Cheyenne. I have another place in view that I know can well take care of the 

 next Trans-]\Iissouri Dr}' Farming Congress. I have a city in mind and I 

 am sure that I will be backed by the whole delegation when I name the 

 place — Ontario, Oregon. This is a place situated nearly in the middle of 

 Snake River. I am trul}^ sorry to hear our chairman take back the name 

 of Idaho Falls, because I am satisfied from what I know of that country 

 that they could have very well taken care of and maintained the Con- 

 gress. Still, to maintain the honor and glor}' of the Snake River, I will 

 sa}', Ontario, Oregon, and invite the Congress there the same as my 

 friend Cleveland has done with the Irrigation Congress. I know there 

 w?s a time and a da}- when it was said that we could not have an irriga- 

 tion congress and make a success of it at all. I believe all will admit that 

 this time we did make a tremendous success of it. 



Now, then. I propose Ontario, Oregon, advisedly. I know we can 

 take care of the Congress there and do justice to the cause in a section 

 tremendously interested in the movement of dr}' farming, because there 

 are people of Oregon who have come some five or six hundred miles to 

 attend this Congress. That is because they are interested in it. It needs 

 it more. Now, Cheyenne is naturalh' a dr}' farming country. The}- have 

 got springs and have a lot of water to farm it. That is a natural dry 

 farming country. The people down there understand it. I want this 

 Congress to go to a place where none of these conditions exist. For this 

 reason, I ask you, gentlemen, .to second my motion to take the Congress 

 to Ontario, and I will ask. you to come there, and I promise you a 

 Congress equal to any. 



:\IR. GEORGE J. M'CABE. of Arizona: I feel that no one here feels 

 remorse more than I do today. I feel that my constituents at home have 

 made a mistake in choosing a farmer to come to this Congress instead 



