THIRTY-THIRD BIENNIAR SESSION 
237 
President Lupton : Mr. Goodman desires to make one or tiwo an- 
nouncements before the meeting closes. 
Mr. Goodman: Before I make the announcement I want to say to you 
men that out in Missouri, the western part of the country or the Middle 
West, we would no more think of shipping! anything individually now than 
we would think of jumping to New York, Practically all of cUir business 
is done cooperatively; very little done through the commissions; nearly 
every farmer ships through the cooperative society, which has a unit of 
twelve, or fifteen or twenty towns; with one head or center which controls 
all the shipments — -and we have no further trouble. 
The Michigan Agricultural College people will please take dinner at the 
Harvey House, Eleventh and Pennsylvania Avenue, at six o’clock P. M. 
Thursday night. 
Mr. Taber: Mr. President, I wish to make a statement and an expla- 
nation, in connection with the meeting that was held yesterday of the vice- 
presidents at 2 o’clock. It seems that there has been some criticism, and 
perhaps, justly so, of the fact that other officers (including the Exe- 
cutive Committee and myself as First Vice-President), met with these 
state vice-presidents to do work which as I now understand thesej fetate 
vice-presidents were expected to do by themselves. Therefore, Mr. Presi- 
dent, I would like you to make the statement to this Convention that the 
work done, the action taken, by the meeting yesterday is null, and that you 
call together the state vice-presidents, who will hold another session by them- 
selves without any of the other officers of this Society present, and transact 
the business which belongs to them properly. 
President Goodman: In further explanation of the matter presented by 
Mr. Taber, I may say; the vice-presidents of the different states and provinces 
have a peculiar duty all their own. In the first place they are nominated 
or chosen, by the state delegations attending our regular biennial sessions; 
by their state membership, or by authorized state organizations, or as a 
last recourse by the president of this society, and are then approved by the 
same body. The other officers and executive committee of this organization 
are elected directly by the membership as a whole. Thus the two sets of 
officers are quite separate in their relationship to the society. 
It is an old and time honored custom for the vice-presidents of the 
society to act as a nominating committee and therefore in accordance with 
the announcement by Mr. Taber. I will designate tomorrow morning at 9 : 
as the time, and room 45 as the place at which this nominating committee — 
the vice-presidents — will meet to organize and to nominate a set of officers 
to preside over the affairs of this society for the next biennium. Then it 
will be understood that at this meeting, no elected official is eligible to attend ; 
no person may hold a vice-president proxy except he be a bona fide resident 
of the state from which the proxy is issued; if there are some states with- 
out vice-presidential representation at this meeting then the members from 
that state may determine who shall represent the state at the meeting of 
the vice-presidents ; should there be only one person present from any state, 
such person may represent said state on the nominating committee. 
