TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART III 169 



as it should be. I think the resolutions committee have that under 

 advisement now and will present such a resolution. Can we hear 

 from somebody on that subject? 



Mr. Oleson: Did you pay the revenue tax that they asked for? 



The President : Some paid it and some did not. So far as I was 

 concerned, I did not pay it. 



Mr. Oleson : I don't think any of them should have paid it. We 

 paid it down in Humboldt because he said he had the authority, but 

 I don't think some of those collectors have as much authority as 

 they think they have. (Laughter.) 



The President: I used to be in the business myself, so I appre- 

 ciate the joke. (Laughter and applause.) I was so strongly of the 

 opinion that they were wrong that when they sent four of them to 

 me, I told them to go off and chase themselves. 



Member : How many have been called upon to pay it ? 



The President : I think every fair in the state has been called 

 upon to pay a tax on their admissions to the grandstand both after- 

 noon and evening. 



Mr. Shores: The last I heard we put on a stock show every 

 night, and for that reason we expected to get by the tax, and I think 

 the boys did, but I know at the time that was their idea. We put 

 something on in the way of an agricultural parade at the grandstand 

 during the last hour, and I heard they would not bother us for the 

 tax. 



Mr. Clarke : We have a man in our town like our worthy presi- 

 dent who is a deputy revenue collector, and we thought we were 

 caught one night. In fact, like the gentleman from Waverly, we 

 put on six stock parades in front of the grandstand, three afternoon 

 and three evening, but Tuesday afternoon and evening we thought 

 we were without the stock show, and we left the matter to him and 

 asked him to take it up with the revenue department in Dubuque, 

 and he reported to me the other day that he had an interview with 

 them the other day and thought we were going to be forgotten. As 

 near as I can find out, the ofifice in Dubuque is going to forget the 

 whole thing. 



Mr. Failor: I was one of the suckers who paid it. I was advised 

 by an attorney to pay it under protest, and I was also told that Mr. 

 Corey was going to pay the stock show tax under protest and that 

 we would likely get it back. I understood there was a penalty that 

 might be attached, and I didn't care to pay the penalty, and we 



