THE PRESIDENT.-That does not include the right to vote, by any means. MR. REMINGTON.-In participating in the deliberations they should not have the right to vote. THE PRESIDENT.-Only the courtesy of the floor? MR. REMINGTON.-Yes, sir. MR. MENNINGER.—I move to amend that they be invited to participate in the discussions on pharmaceutical subjects at this meeting. MR. REMINGTON.-I accept Mr. Menninger's amendment. THE PRESIDENT.-The amendment is accepted by the original mover, and the motion is that the delegates from the Western Wholesale Druggists' Association be invited to participate in the discussion of pharmaceutical subjects on this floor. MR. MCKELWAY, Philadelphia.-I move to amend by adding the words: On any subjects which may properly come before the Association. THE PRESIDENT.-This amendment is not seconded. MR. ROSENWASSER, Cleveland.-Do I understand you that this Association will not allow the wholesale druggists to be represented? I do not quite understand the ground taken. THE PRESIDENT.-We cannot receive them, according to our by-laws, as delegates. Delegates must come from pharmaceutical organizations. This delegation does not come from what might be called a pharmaceutical body, but from wholesale dealers; that is what they call themselves, and the association which they represent is virtually a wholesale druggists' association, not an association of pharmacists. MR. ROSEN WASSER.-The distinction between pharmacists and druggists seems to me to be one more in degree than one in actual fact, and on that account I cannot see how we can separate druggists from pharmacists. THE PRESIDENT.-Mr. Rosenwasser will pardon me for one moment. A society of wholesale druggists has no right to any representation in this organization, but the bylaws particularly state that delegations must come from pharmaceutical bodies, and the question has been time and again brought up, and that ruling has been adhered to. Unless overruled by a vote of the Association, I shall hold that ruling now. The question was then taken on Mr. Remington's motion that the representatives of the Western Wholesale Druggists' Association be invited to participate in the discussions on pharmaceutical subjects at this meeting, and it was carried without opposition. The report of the committee, thus completed, was, on motion of Mr. Diehl, seconded by Mr. Saunders, adopted, and the delegations of the various local pharmaceutical associations admitted. THE PRESIDENT.-The motion has been adopted, and the members present here from the Western Wholesale Druggists' Association are very cordially welcomed to participate in the deliberations of a pharmaceutical character on this floor. An invitation is also extended to the delegates from other associations who have not heretofore met with us. I am sure that we all are glad to see them and to welcome all new pharmaceutical organizations to our deliberations. MR. RICHARDSON, St. Louis (representing the Western Wholesale Druggists' Association).—Mr. President: As a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association I would say that there seems to be some little misunderstanding as to the purpose of the Western Wholesale Druggists' Association in sending a committee, of which I have the honor to be the chairman, here to meet you with a fraternal feeling. Being an organization working somewhat in the same field with yourselves, the Western Wholesale Druggists' Association thought fit to send a committee to you to convey to you our cordial and cheerful congratulations, to tender to you our kindly regards, to assure you of our great sympathy in the work in which you are engaged, and to urge you forward, if possible, to more persistent labors and to higher aims than you have already achieved. Our organization, Mr. President, is similar to your own, as I have just remarked. Our field of labor is somewhat the same as your own. Perhaps our work is in different paths, but in the same field, and we sympathize with you in the generous efforts which you are making to build up and make respectable the practice of medicine and pharmacy and the handling of the goods which are connected with our business. Our purpose has been in a business direction. In this branch of business we have endeavored to build up among the members of the Western Wholesale Druggists' Association,and I will say here that it is no longer a Western Wholesale Druggists' Association, but it has become virtually an association of the United States,-I say we have endeavored to build up in that association, where before was isolation and distrust, a generous feeling of confidence among men who are engaged in distributing the drugs of the pharmacist, and I am happy to say that the number who have not responded to this generous sentiment is comparatively insignificant. And now, gentlemen, looking at the whole field for a brief moment, we find you not combating with a business disagreement and entanglement which follow it, but your field is that of scientific investigation, where roads are difficult but not dangerous, and I congratulate you that you have none of those difficulties to contend with that we have to meet and contend with in our organization. We are sent here, gentlemen, to offer you our hearty congratulations, to cheer you on in your labors, and to hope that hereafter these two organizations, knowing each other, and that is the purpose of our coming here to-day,—we shall co-operate in all our labors, and that the goods which are carefully examined by your scientific skill shall be as carefully dispensed throughout the country. Before I sit down, Mr. President, I desire on behalf of the organization which I have the honor to represent, to express the hope that this organization will appoint a similar committee to meet us in a spirit of fraternal goodwill when we meet in Cleveland in November next. (Great applause.) The Secretary then commenced to read the roll, when Mr. Charles Bullock moved that the further reading of the roll be dispensed with. This motion was agreed to. The appointing of the Nominating Committee being next in order, the President called upon the various delegations accredited to this meeting, by whom the following gentlemen were selected to serve on this Committee: Toledo Pharmaceutical Association, Lancaster County Pharmaceutical Association, Alumni Association New York College of Pharmacy, C. S. Porter. John Ingalls. George W. Sloan. A. F. Wood. A. B. Huested. T. Roberts Baker. C. A. Heinitsh. Ernest Reusch. A. Mayell. Of the delegates of the Mobile County Pharmaceutical Association, Mr. P. C. Candidus alone was present, who had been named for representing the Alabama Pharmaceutical Association. No delegates appeared to be present of the Pharmaceutical Associations of Iowa, Kings County, Newark, and Monroe County; and a motion was agreed to that on the arrival of representatives of these societies, they should be permitted to name one delegate each to attend to the committee work. In addition to the above, the President appointed the following five members of the Association to act on the Nominating Committee : J. A. Lee, New Iberia, La.; J. F. Llewellyn, Mexico, Mo.; T. W. Schryer, Cumberland, Md.; W. S. Robinson, Yorkville, Ontario; C. M. Driggs, White Haven, Pa. The President likewise appointed the following Committee on Exhibits: William B. Thompson, Philadelphia, Chairman; Theo, Schu mann, Atlanta, Ga.; J. W. Caldwell, Detroit, Mich.; T. J. Casper, Springfield, Ohio; and George Eger, Cincinnati. MR. MENNINGER: I now move that we adjourn to meet to-morrow morning at nine o'clock. MR. CHARLES BULLOCK: Before that motion to adjourn is put I would like to express the great satisfaction we have had in listening to the remarks of Mr. Richardson, of St. Louis. Those who remember the early history of this Association and the labor connected with its foundation will recollect that it was largely done by men who were extensively engaged in the wholesale and importing business. Now after the lapse of nearly thirty years we have the wholesale trade coming to us from the far West asking the reception of delegates from them to represent their interests in this Association, and although we are precluded by the technical expression of our by-laws from accepting them as such I feel as if I could not let the occasion pass without saying that I am glad to find the wholesale trade is now coming to recognize the influence of this Association upon all which is good in its effect upon the drug trade, either in the retail or the wholesale departments, and I have been particularly struck with the fact that many of our founders were men who were engaged in that very department of business, although some of them combined with that business that of the retailing or dispensing of drugs also. (Applause.) THE PRESIDENT: Before that motion to adjourn is put I will make a remark. It has been observed that the arrangement for business and pleasure at this meeting is such as to call for only one session daily, and you will find upon the programmes that have been distributed that the meeting is to be called to order at nine o'clock each morning. It is earnestly hoped that whatever be the hour at which the meeting is called that the members will be present punctually in order that we may adjourn at such time as may be proper that other matters of pleasure may not be interfered with, and that we may also carry on the business satisfactorily for which we have assembled. A motion has been made by Dr. Menninger that we now adjourn until tomorrow morning at nine o'clock. The motion was seconded and agreed to. Second Session.-Wednesday Morning, September 13th. The meeting was called to order by the President, and the minutes of the first session were read by the Secretary and approved. Mr. Cowdrey read the following Report of the Nominating Committee: Your Committee met at 8.30 P.M., and, a quorum found to be present, the following nominations were made: |