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favorable to me to get conditions arranged and rearranged that I 

 never could have carried out if it hadn't been for your individual 

 efforts in seeing your representatives and senators. It would have 

 been absolutely impossible to have got the results that we did in my 

 own estimation if it hadn't been for that co-operation. 



I also want to thank at this time the Board of Agriculture for 

 their efforts in our behalf. They had troubles of their own and 

 they were as busy as they could be, but they lent us every assist- 

 ance that was available to them to help in getting this bill passed. I 

 have sometimes wondered that Corey didn't have me kicked out of 

 his office, because he worked his mimeograph and his girls there 

 for us, and I want to thank those people for the assistance that 

 they gave you through me in making this thing possible. 



I might cite you an instance of the difficulties we had to meet. 

 One day I was down here when the bill was going to come up be- 

 fore the appropriation committee of the House. When I went in 

 there they had this original bill drafted by the attorney general's of- 

 fice and they left out the enacting clause. I didn't know that it 

 was absolutely necessary for an enacting clause to be a part of the 

 bill, but they promised to take it up if I had it changed. I had it 

 corrected and they took it up arid passed it out of the appropriations 

 committee. It came up for a vote just before noon, and by wise 

 manipulation one of the fellows on one side of the house offered 

 an amendment, which was a matter of a readjustment of the per- 

 centages, and it did sound good to the people there, but it meant 

 practically everywhere from $10 to $100 less aid to the smaller fairs, 

 and you can see just what condition a fellow would be in with that 

 before him, but it went through and was adopted. When they ad- 

 journed for dinner I met a number of them and they said, "We have 

 done better by you than you expected," but some of the fellows be- 

 gan to figure out what would be the result and found that it meant 

 the difference of from fifty to a hundred dollars on certain fairs, and 

 then they got together and circulated a motion to reconsider the 

 amendment, and at the next session they reconsidered the bill and 

 passed it as originally drawn. And so they took it over to the 

 Senate. It was getting along close to the end of the session, and it 

 was finally located over in the appropriations committee of the 

 Senate, but there were three members of that committee that opposed 

 it, and that's where I really got discouraged, and things did look 

 dark, and I said, "She's gone as sure as thunder," but I came down 

 here and commenced telegraphing to folks on the outside to bring 

 pressure on their senators, and we got the bill passed. 



