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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
hearty congratulations of all those familiar with the business. We 
may go forward with the conviction that the future holds nothing 
worse than the past, with its below cost prices, scale scares, and hostile 
legislation ; and that at present our prospects are brighter than at any 
time during the past five years. 
Upon motion of Mr. Albaugh, who said the address was one 
of the most important the Association had heard, the sugges¬ 
tions therein were referred to a committee of three. Mr. 
Albaugh also suggested that the financial affairs of the Asso¬ 
ciation be referred to an auditing committe. The following 
committees were soon afterward appointed : 
On president’s address : Wilson J. Peters, Ohio ; William 
Pitkin, New York ; E. Albertson, Indiana. 
On association finances : A. L. Brooke, Kansas ; Samuel 
Lorton, Iowa ; J. H. Dayton, Ohio. 
MAYOR MOORES’ ADDRESS. 
Mayor Frank P. Moores, of Omaha, welcoming the members, 
said : 
I am glad to see so many members of this association from all parts 
of the country. I understand that this is a world association. We 
people of Omaha have just started in with our exposition and we feel 
a great deal of pride in it, and it is a compliment to us to have you 
come from your homes so far aw r ay to pay us a visit. I want you to 
know that the entire city is yours. Anything you want you can take. 
If you get into any trouble just call me up on the telephone. My num¬ 
ber is 55 and I am in my office most of the time. I will see that you go 
on your way rejoicing. 
We are proud of our growing city. Omaha is the small part of the 
big funnel which reaches away out to the westward and gathers the 
mighty products, delivering them at this gateway. In this section we 
do not raise so very much fruit yet, but last year our enormous wheat 
crop stood third or fourth in the country, and as for corn, it was king 
in Nebraska—we led the world. 
In the packing industry our city is the third—you all know the big 
packing centers—Chicago. Kansas City, Omaha—but we hope to over¬ 
take Kansas City soon and make Omaha second. We have at South 
Omaha five big packing establishments and Mr. Armour has just paid 
$1,000,000 for another immense plant. 
We have all come from eastern points if we are now westerners. I 
emigrated here from the United States of Ohio and I see here several 
old acquaintances. I was born at Hamilton and I lived at Cincinnati 
and Dayton, so I call myself a C. H. & D. boy. I served in three Ohio 
regiments during the civil war. I have met here to day a man from 
Baltimore and that reminded me of the war. I want to say this about 
the war : It has wiped out every foot of Mason and Dixon’s line 
(applause). It has made us all Americans, with one country and one 
flag. You remember how, when the Sixth Massachusetts passed 
through Baltimore during the war, they were hissed, stoned and egged. 
The other day they passed through again. Instead of hisses they got 
kisses; instead of stones, eggs, bullets and cannon balls they were 
received with open arms. I say, God bless Baltimore, and God bless 
the American people ! 
If you are at the city hall come in and see me. I have nothing very 
strong to drink there, but I have plenty of good cigars and will be 
pleased to see you. 
The remarks of Mayor Moores were received with applause 
and President Rouse thanked him for his cordial welcome. 
The mayor said it was a pleasant duty. 
STATE VICE PRESIDENTS. 
The following vice-presidents for the states were elected : 
Alabama, W. F. Heikes, Huntsville ; Arkansas, T. Wing, 
Nevada ; Colorado, George J. Spear, Greeley ; California, 
Thomas B. Bohlender, Chico ; Connecticut, J. H. Hale, South 
Glastonbury ; Delaware, Alexander Pullen, Milford ; District 
of Columbia, James Wilson ; Florida, George L. Taber, Glen 
St. Mary; Georgia, R. C. Berckmans, Augusta; Idaho, S. S. 
Lewis, Boise City ; Illinois, C. N. Dennis, Hamilton ; Indiana 
E. Albertson, Bridgeport ; Iowa, Silas Wilson, Atlantic : 
Indian Territory, W. B. Samuels, Ardmore ; Kansas, A. Willis, 
Ottawa : Kentucky, J. M. Samuels, Clinton ; Louisiana, L. T. 
Sanders, Plain Dealing; Maine, Herbert A. Jackson, Port¬ 
land ; Maryland, Howard Davis, Baltimore ; Massachusetts, 
J. W. Manning, Reading ; Michigan, C. W. Schriver, Benton 
Harbor : Minnesota, J. Cole Doughty, Lake City ; Mississippi, 
Dr. H. T. McKay ; Missouri, W. P. Stark, Louisiana ; Mon¬ 
tana, S. M Emery, Bozeman ; Nebraska, Peter Youngers, 
Geneva ; New Hampshire, John C. Chase, Derry ; New Jer¬ 
sey, Hiram T. Jones, Elizabeth ; New York, George S. Josse- 
lyn, Fredonia ; North Carolina, J Van Lindley, Pomona; 
Ohio, Frederick G. Withoft, Dayton ; Pennsylvania, Thomas 
B. Meehan, Germantown ; South Dakota, George H. Whiting, 
Yankton ; Tennessee, W. W. Baird, Humboldt ; Texas, E. W. 
Kirkpatrick, McKinney ; Utah, J. A. Goodhue, Salt Lake City; 
Vermont, D. J. Camp, Randolph ; Virginia, E. H. Bissell, 
Richmond ; Washington, C. L. Whitney, Walla Walla ; West 
Virginia, G. P. Miller, Romney ; Wisconsin, Z. K. Jewett, 
Sparta. 
SECRETARY’S REPORT. 
Secretary Seager’s report showed that the Association had 
on hand in cash $536.70. There is due the Association from 
the ex-treasurer, N. A. Whitney, Franklin Grove, Ill., $1,491.80. 
Counting this as good the Association has a fund of $2,028.50. 
Unpaid bills and the expenses of the 1898 convention will 
amount to about $950, leaving a balance of nearly $1,100,. 
The secretary stated that the average annual income of the 
Association is $1,100 and the expenses are about $r,ooo 
annually, making a net increase each year of $100. 
S. M. Emery, of the Montana Experiment Station, Boze¬ 
man, Montana, formerly a nurseryman at Lake City, Minn., 
and in 1890 president of the American Association, read a 
paper on “Fruit Prospects in Montana,” extracts from which 
appear on another page of this issue. 
LEGISLATION. 
C. L. Watrous, of Iowa, presented the following report of 
the committee on legislation at the afternoon session : 
“Your committee appointed to urge the passage by congress 
of the bill prepared and approved by this Association at its 
last session in St. Louis in June 1897, beg leave to report : 
“ During the interim between June and the meeting of con¬ 
gress in December, a friendly correspondence was undertaken 
with representatives of the Washington convention held in 
March 1897, which convention had also adopted a bill cover¬ 
ing the same subject and already secured its introduction in 
both houses of congress. This correspondence was fortunate 
in that it secured such substantial agreement between the 
representatives of the Washington convention and those of 
this Association that a joint meeting was held in Washington 
in January 1898, and the bill of this Association with very 
slight amendments was unanimonsly adopted as best represent¬ 
ing the views of all parties in interest. 
“The joint committee consisting of Messrs. Albaugh, Rouse, 
Wilson, and the writer, on the part of this Association, and of 
Messrs. Alwood, Webster, Johnson, and Wordall on the part 
of the Washington convention, secured an early hearing before 
the committee on agriculture of the house of representatives, 
and presented the case so forcibly as to secure an early and 
favorable report upon the bill, to the house of representatives. 
