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Mr. C. H. Pickard: I Avoiild like to second Mr. Clark's resolu- 

 tion. I think Iowa is as much entitled to state help as any of 

 the states around it and does not receive nearly as much as some 

 of them do. 



Chairman: Gentlemen. Yon have heard the motion. Are you 

 ready for the question? 



Motion put and carried. 



Chairman: What is your further pleasure, gentlemen? That 

 finishes the program. 



JMr. Holcombe, of Illinois, Avas here introduced and spoke as 

 follows : 



Mr. Holcombe: Mr. President and Gentlemen — I do not feel 

 like I ought to be called upon, as this is my first meeting in Iowa. 

 Still, coming from. Illinois where we have a law, I would like to 

 explain to you that law. 



The state of Illinois has an appropriation of $85,000. That is 

 put in the hands of the agricultural department to pay to the 

 fairs in the following manner : Sixty per cent of the amount paid 

 in cash premiums, fifty per cent of the second thousand, forty 

 per cent of the next two thousand, and thirty per cent on the 

 balance. Up until two years ago the last year the appropriation 

 was $65,000. At that time through the efforts of Mr. Leonard 

 Small and several others — of course I helped a little — we got the 

 appropriation changed from $65,000 to $85,000. The reason of 

 that was that $65,000 was hardly enough to go around, and after 

 all the fair statements were all in it was very evident that they 

 would have to pro rate the amount, and a good many fairs re- 

 ceived a fraction less than they were entitled to. At that time 

 they had a limit of $2,500 for each county. The bill went through 

 without any trouble, and $85,000 is sufficient to take care, I be- 

 lieve, of all of what it is intended to do. The system employed 

 is that they send their statements to the financial chief so as to 

 make a financial statement of the year's business, the amount of 

 indebtedness, if any, the value of the property and so on, and a 

 list of all premiums paid out, who paid it and the address of the 

 one who paid it and the name of the department in which they 

 were paid, together with an affidavit to the fact that there was 

 no intoxicating liquors or gambling allow^ed on the ground. Those 

 statements must be in by the fifteenth of December, or between 

 that and the first of the year. It makes it very difficult in com- 

 ing into Iowa to convince some of the people of Iowa how to 



