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disease has become exterminated in the country where such fruit is grown, when he 

 may withdraw the quarantine, and this shall operate to relieve all such fruit from further 

 restrictions as long as the conditions of freedom from injurious insects or diseases shall 

 continue. 



Sec. 6. That the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces- 

 sary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury of the United States not 

 otherwise appropriated, to carry into effect the provisions of this Act. 



Sec. 7. This Act shall take effect on and after the first day of July, nineteen hundred. 



Upon motion, the bill was adopted, and the Secretary of the Conven- 

 tion requested to forward copies to our Senator and Representatives at 

 Washington for introduction in Congress. 



NICARAGUA CANAL. 



Judge AIKEN. The Committee on Resolutions beg leave to report 

 that they have carefully considered the resolution on the Nicaragua 

 Canal, introduced by Mr. Edward Berwick, and recommend its adop- 

 tion by the convention, as follows: 



Whereas, Half a century has already been devoted to a succession of surveys by 

 various commissions without any decisive steps being taken towards actual construc- 

 tion ; and 



Whereas, The Nicaragua Canal Commission headed by Admiral Walker has 

 reported favorably as to the entire feasibility of such construction at a reasonable 

 outlay; and 



Whereas, The prosperity of the whole agricultural and horticultural interests of the 

 Pacific Coast, involving many millions of dollars annually, depends in the future on 

 improved transportation facilities ; therefore, be it 



Resolved, That this convention of the fruit-growers of California most urgently 

 petitions the Congress of the United States to proceed at once to enact such legislation 

 as will enable the Government of the United States to proceed to the immediate con- 

 struction of the Nicaragua Canal upon the basis of the Walker Commission. 



Resolution adopted. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION. 



R. D. Stephens, chairman of the Committee on Transportation, 

 submitted the following report: 



Your Committee on Transportation and Marketing beg leave to make the following 

 report : 



Whereas, The railroads entering California and engaged in transporting fruit 

 therefrom have made traffic arrangements and agreements under which special 

 privileges and benefits accrue to certain shippers that are denied to others; and 



Whereas, Under the agreements above referred to shippers of green and citrus fruits 

 from California are forced to make their shipments in cars controlled by private 

 individuals or corporations, under which arrangement exorbitant and extortionate 

 tribute must be paid by the fruit-growers to private parties or corporations, and by 

 which arrangements the green fruit shipments from California are practically forced 

 into the hands of two shipping firms, thus giving to them privileges that are denied 

 to others and by which all competition is in effect cut off ; and 



Whereas, Under the arrangements and agreements above referred to, favored ship- 

 pers, by reason of carline benefits accruing to them both on their own shipments and 



