tion, be canceled, and in future the executive committee shall pay their own expenses. This motion was put to vote and carried. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 9 THE PRESIDENT: The report of the secretary and treasurer will now be presented. The secretary presented the following report: Sale of Report of Twentieth Convention.. $275 00 30 00 Stenography and typewriting (including report of twentieth convention)........ 1,097 95 Printing and stationery (including proceedings and papers read at meeting).. Postage and telegrams... Traveling expenses.. Sundry expenses. Badges... Furniture .. Committee on data.. Municipal statistics. Balance January 1, 1898.... 754 70 Balance in bank January 1, 1898.... $1,136 83 $1,147 53 ASSETS Cash as above statement.... Cash in hands of finance committee.... Office furniture, as appraised by finance committee..... Accounts receivable.. LIABILITIES Bill of James Kempster Printing Com pany.. Net assets.. Respectfully submitted, . $1,147 53 267 00 635 00 $2,955 50 808 77 $2,146 73 GEO. F. PORTER, Secretary and Treasurer. Approved September 23, 1898. H. H. FAIRBANKS, W. S. BARSTOW, Finance Committee. MR. STETSON: Has the report of the treasurer been audited? THE PRESIDENT: No; because none of the members of the auditing committee are here. MR. STETSON: I move that the report of the secretary and treasurer be accepted upon its approval by the finance committee, and spread upon the records; further, that the finance committee be requested to turn into the general bank account of the association the sum of $915.97, shown on the report of the secretary and treasurer, and also a further sum of $472.91, which they have in hand as the proceeds of the Montreal exhibition. This motion was carried. COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE POLICY THE PRESIDENT: You may remember that at our last executive session a motion was passed that a committee of five on legislative policy be appointed by the chair, with the chair as chairman of the committee. I will appoint the committee to consist of the following members: SAMUEL INSULL, Chicago, Chairman ERNEST H. DAVIS, Williamsport, Pennsylvania REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE THE PRESIDENT: The next report is that of the executive committee. The executive committee have had only one meeting during the year. The matter that the executive committee was called to discuss was the subject that we discussed in executive session the day before yesterday, namely, the question of the legislative policy of the association. I have no formal report to make, and will, therefore, call for the report of the committee on nominations, as the election of officers is the next business in order. REPORT OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE AND Mr. Robertson presented the following report: CHICAGO, June 9th, 1898. National Electric Light Association, GENTLEMEN: Your committee, to whom was referred the matter of nominating officers of this association and members of the executive committee to be elected at this meeting, begs to offer the following nominations: For president, A. M. Young, Waterbury, Connecticut. For first vice-president, E. W. Rollins, Denver, Colorado. For second vice-president, F. A. Gilbert, Boston, Massachusetts. For members of the executive committee, Samuel Insull, Chicago, Illinois; Samuel Scovil, Cleveland, Ohio; H. M. Atkinson, Atlanta, Georgia; F. A. Copeland, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Respectfully submitted, A. M. ROBERTSON, JAMES I. AYER, JAMES R. DEE, Committee. MR. HUNTLEY: I move that the report of the nominating committee be accepted, and that the secretary cast the ballot of the association for the gentlemen named. Carried. The secretary cast the ballot, and the president declared the gentlemen duly elected. THE PRESIDENT: I am sorry that none of the officers elected are here to acknowledge their election. Speaking for Mr. Young and Mr. Gilbert, I assure you that they were very much disappointed at not being able to be present, and nothing but the most pressing business in connection with the large business. interests with which they are charged, kept them away. They wished me especially to inform the association to that effect. It is a great pleasure to me personally to see another western man elected among the officers of the association. I take a great personal interest in the association, and I know that much can be done in the future by having an admixture of eastern, western and southern men on our staff of officers and executive committee. So far as I am personally concerned, I wish to thank you all for what you have done toward making this convention the success it is universally conceded to have been. I am gratified that such a meeting should have taken place in the city in which I reside. I hope to do all I can in the future to carry this association to still further success. MR. ATKINSON: There is one thing that I think we can hardly adjourn without doing-I am not going to make any lengthy speech, but the company in which I am interested has been a member of this association for quite a number of years, and I have, unfortunately, not been able to see my way clear to come to a previous convention; we have always been represented, however. I got up to say that, judging by this, my first convention, I am extremely sorry I did not begin to come sooner. I have been very much interested, and have learned a great deal, and I have an earnest feeling that this convention has been a great success; in my opinion it could have hardly have been a greater success. It has been a very business-like convention in every way. I want to express as earnestly as I can what strong feeling I have for the work; it is important work, and we can hardly put too much enthusiasm into it, and it is going to be of untold good for every member. In closing I |
