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PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTH DAY. 



Friday, November 23, 1894. 



[Vice-President Buck in the chair.] 



Mr. Adams: I have obtained facts from the Southern Pacific Com- 

 pany and from the Southern California Railroad which enable me to 

 give statistics of all the shipments of dried fruit that have gone out 

 from the State this year, except those which went by sea, and which 

 will not materially change the result. There are two or three little 

 elements of error in the figures which have been given me, and which I 

 have had to make an estimate to cover. The figures arrived at are 

 these: In 1893 there were sent out in carloads of twelve tons, 1,744 car- 

 loads of raisins, and in 1894 there were 1,664 carloads — 80 carloads less 

 than in 1893. Of dried fruits in 1893, during that period there left 

 1,086 carloads, not including prunes. In 1894, during the same period, 

 there were shipped 1,829 carloads. None of the companies are able to 

 furnish the statistics of different kinds of fruit, except at stations here 

 and there. Shippers have not done as requested by the railroad com- 

 pany, and it is impossible to get figures as to the different kinds of fruit. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE. 



Mr. Kells, of the Committee on Resolutions, submitted the following 

 report, which was adopted: 



Gentlemen of the Convention: 



Your committee respectfully makes the following report upon the series of resolu- 

 tions referred to the committee for their consideration. 



We recommend the adoption of the resolutions referring to the "Nicaragua Canal," 

 the "Mining Debris Question," and "Government Foreclosure of the Mortgages held 

 against the Union and Central Pacific Railroads." 



Your committee refers back to the convention, without recommendation or prejudice, 

 the resolution referring to the " State building a railroad through the San Joaquin and 

 Sacramento Valleys." 



(Signed:) R. C. KELLS, Chairman, 



D. T. FOWLER, 

 P. E. PLATT, 



Committee. 



Mr. Sprague moved the adoption of the resolution providing for State 

 construction of railroads, which was reported to the committee without 

 recommendation. The resolution was read. 



Mr. Sprague: Such a proposition as this is startling, because it is not 

 in line with our train of previous thought. But if we will stop to con- 

 sider we will find that our thought is tending inevitably in the direction 

 of an industrial movement of this kind. Students of political economy 

 are now coming to the conclusion that competition as a means of regu- 

 lating trade has been a failure. We look forth upon this country and 

 we find a whisky trust, a Standard oil trust, a lumber trust, a coal 

 trust, and so on. We find railroad companies joining together for their 



