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Senate, there would not have been ten dissenting votes against the 

 bill. But when we came to sec the Governor (we went to see him 

 two or three times) we could not get any satisfaction from him. 

 Finally, when he gave his decision, we found that he would veto the 

 bill on account of the financial standing of the State. While I was 

 in Harrisburg the other day the thought occurred to me that there 

 wouldn't be quite as much fuss over the State deposits if we had a 

 little of the money. We have a surplus of $12,000,000, and it was 

 a flimsey excuse that there was no money. There was no changing 

 the Governor. Even Senator Penrose himself tried to argue with 

 him, but could not do it. He had set his mind he wouldn't sign the 

 bill, and that was the only reason he gave. He said it was a meritor- 

 ious measure, and the people demanded it, but he couldn't see his 

 way clear on account of the demand for the money for the hospitals 

 and the insane asylums. Those were the two institutions that he 

 seemed to base his argument on for not signing the bill. He could 

 not get it through his head that they could support us with money 

 from the State appropriation. A great many of the representatives 

 said "We will put it through any way." When we came to study the 

 matter over and look at it, we decided that it would be a hardship 

 for the incoming Governor to sign a vetoed bill: and we decided to 

 drop the bill where it was. I have no idea but a bill will go through 

 in the next session. The trouble will be with the Governor. There 

 is no use getting a State Fair Commission appointed unless we can 

 have a reasonable appropriation to start that fair with. 



There were some things occurred last winter I did not like. The 

 old State Agricultural Society officers came to me and wanted to 

 make an appointment, and because we wouldn't accept one of their 

 number, making it binding on us to put one of that number on the 

 Commission, they then said they would defeat the bill. We told 

 them to go ahead and do their worst if that was the spirit they were 

 working for — their $2,000 a year. I do not think they can do us 

 any hurt, but I do say I want nothing to do with the state fair that 

 is going to take up with the old Agricultural Society. We want a 

 live State Fair Association. We are going to have it or we don't' 

 want any. If the breeders here say there should be a State Fair 

 committee appointed to go on and look after this legislation in the 

 next session, we will do so, but there can be nothing done in the 

 special session. But a year from now if this thing is managed 

 rightly I don't see why we cannot get the law passed to go through 

 the House and Senate and the only question will lie with the Gov- 

 ernor. I think the postal card system would not be a bad idea. It 

 seems that that scandal connected with the old State Agricultural 

 Society we have to overcome. We have made up our minds not to 

 have anything to do with it, and we don't want to be connected with 

 it at all as an Association. If we do we have got that to fight, and 

 fight from the start. We intend to start clean. We want the 

 united effort, we want the help of every one, not only the breeders, 

 but the dairy people and any one interested in agriculture that is 

 not a dairyman or breeder, and we want the manufacturers. If the 

 manufacturers are with us and the railroads are with us, why the 

 Governor could not set himself up against the whole state I could 

 not see myself when these men in Harrisburg were in favor of the 

 bill. I have always felt we needed an appropriation so we could 



