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should wait upon him and state their wishes, and so on, in such matters 

 as the Convention desires. I move that a committee be appointed for 

 that purpose. 



PRESIDENT COOPER. I want you to re-form your language a little. 

 It is not Southern California fruit-growers; it is the State of California. 



MR. BERWICK.. Well, I would say a convention of California 

 fruit-growers assembled in Southern California for the express purpose 

 of learning Southern California's wants and wishes. 



PRESIDENT COOPER. That is better. 

 * MR. KOETHEN. If that is the motion, I will second it. 



PRESIDENT COOPER. Mr. Berwick didn't name the number. 



MR. BERWICK. I leave it with the Chair. It ought to be an 

 imposing number. I should say ten or eleven. 



MR. DORE. I suggest, as an amendment, that the President of this 

 Convention shall be chairman of the committee. 



MR. BERWICK. I accept the amendment. 



Motion, as amended, adopted. 



MR. BERWICK. Mr. Chairman, I move that if possible, the State 

 Commissioner of Horticulture be requested to have continued by the 

 Commercial Museum at San Francisco the cablegrams and other 

 advices by mail from the various consuls abroad; that the Commercial 

 Museum be requested to receive them, to interpret them, and to send 

 them out to the fruit-growers as rapidly as possible. 



PRESIDENT COOPER. Well, why wouldn't it be better to attend 

 to that matter independently, entirely free from the Commercial 

 Museum or any other organization; to have the Horticultural Commis- 

 sioner get that news direct to the Horticultural Commission? 



MR,. DORE. I think, Mr. President, although I don't claim to be an 

 expert on this line, that it would be much better if we had our own 

 communications, and could get them direct and more speedily and with- 

 out sifting or changing or in any manner diluting. 



MR. BERWICK. I am willing to amend my resolution in accord- 

 ance with Mr. Dore's wishes, although I believe it has not been seconded 

 so far. 



The motion was seconded. 



PRESIDENT COOPER. The motion as amended is that this matter 

 be taken up by the Horticultural Commission, independent of any other 

 organization, for the benefit of the fruit-growers of the State of Cali- 

 fornia. 



MR. DORE. I suppose it will be more expensive? 

 PRESIDENT COOPER. It will cost more. 



MR. ROWLEY. I know personally that the subscribers of the Com- 

 mercial Museum at San Francisco don't care to have that information 

 given broadcast through the newspapers. They claim that they sub- 



