[2] The members of the Resolution Committee were chosen by their respective State Delegations, and met at the call of a Temporary Chairman (and member-at-large), Ex-Governor George C. Pardee, of California, who was afterward chosen by the committee as Permanent Chairman. The full personnel of the committee follows:

ALABAMA, John L. Kaul, Birmingham
ARIZONA, B. A. Fowler, Phenix
ARKANSAS, John A. Fox, Blytheville
CALIFORNIA, Frank H. Short, Fresno
COLORADO, P. T. Coolidge, Colorado Spgs.
COLUMBIA (District of), W J McGee, Washington
CONNECTICUT, A. Fletcher Marsh, New Haven
FLORIDA, Cromwell Gibbons, Jacksonville
GEORGIA, C. L. Worsham, Atlanta
IDAHO, Jerome J. Day, Moscow
ILLINOIS, Alfred L. Baker, Chicago
INDIANA, William Holton Dye, Indianapolis
IOWA, Robert Hunter, Sioux City
KANSAS, Governor William R. Stubbs, Lawrence
KENTUCKY, C. C. Grassham, Paducah
LOUISIANA, Robert Roberts, Jr., Minden
MAINE, Cyrus C. Babb, Augusta
MARYLAND, Lynn R. Meekins, Baltimore
MASSACHUSETTS, C. A. Start, Boston
MICHIGAN, Francis King, Alma
MINNESOTA, E. W. Robinson, Minneapolis
MISSISSIPPI, H. L. Whitfield, Columbus
MISSOURI, George B. Logan, Saint Louis
MONTANA, F. L. Newman, Havre
Rudolph Van Tolbel, Lewistown
NEBRASKA, Woodruff Ball, Valentine
NEW HAMPSHIRE, Geo. B. Leighton
NEW JERSEY, Frederick W. Kelsey, Orange
NEW MEXICO, W. A. Fleming Jones, Las Cruces
NEW YORK, J. S. Whipple, Salamanca
NORTH DAKOTA, James E. Boyle, Grand Forks
OHIO, Charles Lathrop Pack, Cleveland
OKLAHOMA, Benjamin Martin, Jr., Muskogee
OREGON, M. A. Moody, The Dalles
PENNSYLVANIA, M. I. McCreight, Dubois
RHODE ISLAND, H. A. Barker, Providence
SOUTH CAROLINA, E. W. Durant, Jr., Charleston
SOUTH DAKOTA, P. H. O'Neill, Faulkton
TEXAS, S. H. Cowan, Fort Worth
UTAH, Harden Bennion, Salt Lake City
VERMONT, George Aitkin, Woodstock
WASHINGTON, George H. Emerson, Hoquiam
WEST VIRGINIA, I. C. White, Morgantown
WISCONSIN, William Irvine, Chippewa Falls
WYOMING, E. H. Fourt, Lander

[3] The corrected list appears elsewhere (page iv).

[4] The reports submitted by States as mentioned in the responses to the Call of States are printed in the Supplementary Proceedings, beginning on page 327, and are entered in the Contents and Index of the volume.

[5] The formal report for Ohio appears in the Supplementary Proceedings.

[6] In the opinion he held that the plaintiff was entitled to judgment, declaring the Brooklyn Cooperage Company and Cornell University contract void, and directed the University to convey to the State of New York the 30,000 acres constituting the College Forest.

[7] The relative prices of forest lands sixty years ago and now may be judged from the fact that in 1850 a Law (Chapter 250) was passed providing that the State should not sell public land on Raquette river for less than 15 cents an acre. The State is now paying over $7.00 an acre for the same kind of land.

[8] Declaration of Colonel David McClure in the Constitutional Convention of 1894.