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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
refusal to accept goods, lots of lawsuits and no profit to the nursery¬ 
man. 
It is a serious question now what the next movement shall he. I 
fully believe if this national bill should pass, that would quiet a very 
large part of the trouble that we are likely to have in the next three or 
four years on this very insect legislation. 
I shipped a bill of trees this spring, and the man sent me the money 
—trusting fellow—for the goods, before I shipped him the goods. I 
do not know how it is out West here, but in Ohio it is one of the sacred 
duties of a nurseryman never to return any money that is once given 
into his hands if he can possibly help it. Four weeks afterwards I was 
informed by this same customer to whom I had sent the trees, that the 
trees had not yet arrived, although they had only a little more than a 
hundred miles to travel, and w T ent by one of the oldest express com¬ 
panies in the United States. When I made that complaint to the 
express agent and asked him w r hy he did not forward these goods to a 
town some 25 miles from the state line, he said under the Michigan law 
he could not do it unless we sent with each consignment the original 
certificate that we had received from our state entomologist. As I 
wanted to send three or four orders out this spring, I have been in 
doubt as to which order I should send the original certificate of inspec. 
tion with. The end of it is that the express company would not pay 
me back; that the man did not get his trees in time to do him any 
good, and that I have to pay the man back his fifteen dollars, and that 
is the worst part of it all. That is a case of a little “ too much Kain- 
tuck.” And I think as nurserymen, while we have no right, and I 
have no disposition to condemn the good work that entomologists have 
done, we may, in having spent at least half our time for the last three 
years in our nurserymen’s conventions listening to dissertations upon 
insects, we may have overdone the business just a little, and got a little 
too much “ Kaintuck ” into our business. 
The committee on the president’s address reported in favor 
of following the suggestions in the address. First, that the 
treasurer of the Association furnish a bond, the cost of the 
bond to be paid by the Association ; second, that the Canadian 
exclusion act be referred to the committee on legislation, that 
committee to take such action as may be deemed advisable. 
The report was adopted and the recommendations were 
directed to be followed. 
THE NEW OFFICERS. 
Mr. Josselyn presented the report of the nominating com¬ 
mittee of state vice-presidents, recommending the following 
list of officers of the Association for the ensuing fiscal year: 
President—A. L. Brooke, North Topeka, Kan. 
Vice-President—E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Ind. 
Secretary—George C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y. 
Treasurer—C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; R. 
C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga.; F. H. Stannard, Ottawa, Kan. 
The vice-presidents decided to recommend that the Associa¬ 
tion meet in Chicago next year. 
The report as to officers and place of meeting was adopted 
by the Association without discussion, the secretary casting 
one ballot for the officers named. 
The following standing committees were afterwards appoint¬ 
ed by the new president, Mr. Brooke : 
Transportation—A. L. Brooke, ex-officio, chairman ; Wm. 
Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb., W. 
J. Peters, Troy, O., and R. C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; N. H. 
Albaugh, Tadmor, O.; Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la.; and Thomas 
B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa. 
Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; J. J. Harrison, 
Painesville, O., and N. W. Hale, Knoxville, Tenn. 
TARIFF ENFORCEMENT. 
Mr. Brooke, while engaged in committee work, sent to the 
president’s desk a resolution regarding the enforcement of the 
tariff schedule on nursery stock, condemning frauds on the 
government in the evasion of duties upon imported nursery 
stock, and providing that all known violations of the law be 
reported to the tariff committee It failed for want of a 
second to the motion for its adoption. Professor Emery, of 
Montana, thought it would be unwise for the Association to go 
before the world and admit that it had falsifiers among its 
members. 
Subsequently Mr. Brooke, returning to the floor of the con¬ 
vention said: “ Some time ago I offered a resolution relating to 
the tariff. It was presented and read while I was engaged in 
committee work in another room and 1 did no’ have oppor¬ 
tunity to speak upon it. I understand that it was not 
adopted.” 
The chair—“It was not seconded and therefore was not 
before the convention.” 
Mr. Brooke—“I desire to say to Professor Emery that I 
know of instances among foreign importers that meet just the 
conditions I sought in that resolution to guard against.” 
Professor Emery—“Give us the names.” 
Mr. Brooke—“I offered the resolution to back up the work 
of this Association on the tariff. If we have a tariff schedule 
on nursery stock as the result of our work and expense, we 
should have the courage to tell these men that they shall obey 
the laws of this country, names or no names. We asked for a 
tariff on nursery stock to protect us from cheap labor. Are 
we going to allow violations of that tariff after we have gotten 
-it? I say we should have the courage to tell the American 
authorities that we are ready to back them up in the enforce¬ 
ment of the tariff law. 
“Gentlemen, if we go out of this convention, not doing this, 
we shall make a great mistake. If this resolution is not what 
is wanted, we should have a committee appointed to draft a 
suitable resolution.” 
Z. K. Jewett—“We thought the resolution reflected upon 
American nurserymen. We did not understand that you 
referred to foreign concerns.” 
President Rouse—“ 1 sympathize with Mr. Brooke in his 
endeavor to secure the enforcement of the tariff law, but I 
doubt that it can be gotten at ini the way suggested. It is a 
delicate matter to handle. You cannot give the names very 
well. It is the plain duty of each member of this Association 
to expose immediately any violation of he tariff act that comes 
to his notice.” 
Mr. Brooke—“ Do you think any one would do it ?” 
President Rouse—“As a matter of business I would expose 
any such violation of law within 24 hours after it came to my 
notice.” 
ASSOCIATION’S FINANCES. 
A per diem allowance having been proposed in the case of 
some of the members of the committee on tariff who spent 
considerable time in Washington in getting favorable action on 
the tariff schedule, there was discussion on the subject in open 
convention The report of the auditing committee was as 
follows : 
“ Your committee has examined accounts as per report of 
treasurer and find that all paid bills have been certified correct 
by executive committee ; that balance is deposited, as reported 
