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vention are perfectly willing and rather anxious to meet together 
and listen to this important subject. I think it would be rather 
gratifying to the convention, and it would to me that both sides of 
the money question may be presented. 
Mr. Eaton: I don’t understand that our worthy secretary pro¬ 
posed any discussion between us and the academy of sciences. He 
only proposed to meet jointly and hear certain papers read that 
have been prepared. Those papers appertain to the same subject, 
and all of them could be read jointly. 
Mr. Orledge: I suppose discussion was invited here. If these 
papers are not to be discussed, I don’t know the object of having 
them read. 
Mr. Wood: There has been but little of late but discussions on 
the financial question, and I should hardly do myself justice if I 
did not say that I came up to this convention more to get away from 
them than to get into them, and it would be refreshing to me, 
while I remain here, if we would attend more particularly to the 
business of the agricultual convention, and get away from this 
everlasting din of politics which we hear on every side, and I should 
prefer myself to confine ourselves more particularly to the subjects 
which our name indicates—agriculture. 
Secretary Field: It will not take one minute more to discuss 
this question after three papers are read than after one paper. Mr. 
Benton is going to read a payer on finance, and I supposed the con¬ 
vention was going to give him a fair opportunity. If Mr. Wood 
expects to get away from a discussion of the currency question, I fear 
he will have to leave not only this convention, but the State and 
nation too. I trust the finance papers will be read before the joint 
conventions. 
The motion for a joint convention prevailed. 
