236 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



President Ev^ans — There is one reason which Mr. Goodraaa has 

 not given yet. Mr. Gentry said that the opportuaity I had for adver- 

 tising uiy business was worth more than the amount of my expenses.^ 

 I asked Mr. Gentry if he paid for his advertising. He had some of his 

 fine hogs on exhibition at the World's fair, yet he got $G for every day 

 he spent attending the fair, or attending to the business of the Com- 

 mission. 



When the Legislature meets we will wake somebody up. They 

 owe me nearly $1000. The most of this was money that I actually- 

 paid out for collecting fruits, express, etc. They promised to 

 repay every dollar that I advanced to secure the best exhibit for 

 the State. All the others have been paid. They never paid me a 

 dollar. My whole six months and every dollar I spent are gone. One 

 of the members of the World's Fair Commission sent a young man 

 to Chicago, nominally to look after the horticultural exhibit, but really 

 as a mere figure-head. This young man was paid $100 a month to do 

 nothing. He knew nothing of fruits or horticulture, and did not have 

 sense enough to keep his secrets. He let it out that the salary of $100 

 a month was to be divided with the member of the Board who got him 

 appointed. I objected to this young man, and finally told Mr. Gentry 

 that I would go home and have nothing more to do with the exhibit 

 unless this young man was recalled at once. He was recalled, and of 

 course the member of the Board who had him appointed was offended. 

 I think this explains why I have not been repaid the money I spent to 

 advance the interests of the State. If this condition of things exists 

 between myself and the World's Fair Board when the Legislature 

 meets, we will stir them up. 



A COMMirrEE REPORT. 



Tkenton, Mo., December 6, I89t. 

 "We, the committee appointed to examine the Eclipse spray-pump, manufactured by 

 Morrill & Morey, Benton Harbor, Mich.', and exhibited by R. 11. Morrill, would submit the 

 following report: 



That In our judgment It Is the best spray-pump, all points considered, that has ever 

 come under our observation. A. II. Gilkesox, Chairman, 



S. W. Gilbert, 

 Arthur Patterson, 

 N. F. Murray. 



COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. 



Whereas, We have heard this evening, with both astonishment and amazement, that 

 the President of the Missouri State Horticultural Society has still outstanding a claim 

 amounting to nearly a thousand dollars against the State Commission of the World's fair, 

 for moneys spent out of his own pockets, authorized by the State Commissioner of the State 

 fair, and that after presenting his claim and pressing It moi'e than once, he has Anally been 

 informed by the said commissioner that he will not be paid another cent; therefore, be it 



