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will go through. We waut a headquarters and we must have money in 

 order to have them. We appeal to you now. This is a good proposition 

 and I think it will meet with favor so I asli that the majority report be 

 concurred in. 



Mr. Hobbs: I am in favor of the majority report with this exception: 

 That is, let us tirst secure the appropiiation and then we can adopt 

 this open office method, but I think it unsafe to attempt to keep 

 an open office before we get the appropriation. My experience with the 

 Indiana Legislature in the last twenty-five years has lead me to believe 

 fliat they are very uncertain in regard to appropriations. I am in 

 sympathy with all progressive ideas. 



Mr. Zion: If you will read our report you will see that is what it 

 means. We suggested that a committee be appointed to petition for the 

 appropriation for this purpose. Of course if we do not receive the appro- 

 priation we cannot have an open office. 



Mr. Custer: There is nothing in your report that would indicate that. 



Mr. Swaim: Mr. Hobbs has the floor. 



Mr. Hobljs: If we can secure a sufficient appropriation from the Legis- 

 lature to keep an open hou.se during the year I am in favor of doing it 

 and I think therebj^ we Avill advance the horticultural interests of the 

 state. I am not in favor of the majority report unless it carries with it 

 the idea of the appropriation tirst. 



Mr. Custer: Neither report referred to the appropriation first. Neither 

 one of these reports says a word about the Legislative Committee and 

 the appropriation. 



Mr. Zion: If you'll read the report you will see. 



Mr. Custer: I can not find it in the majority report. Possibly you had 

 better find it for me. 



Sylvester .Tohnson: I seconded the motion to adopt the minority re- 

 port, and I had as I thought very good reasons for doing so. I think 

 the majority report very impracticable in the first place. That room 

 over there was set apart for the State Horticultural Society, but it does 

 not control it exclusively and other organizations in the state can have 

 their meetings there when they want to. ^Ir. Flick and I have met in that 

 room every Friday, and I thinlc that fully one-half of the time when we 

 have come tliere that room has been occupied. It is used for public meet- 

 ings, committee meetings, associations, etc. Other arrangements will have 

 to be made if we keep it open permanently. The State House Custodian 

 claims that it was set apart for meetings, etc. 



