FIFTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART IX. 653 



Resolved, That the state of Iowa should provide that competent en- 

 gineers and accountants be employed to look after the interests of the 

 people of Iowa, to the end that a just physical valuation of the railroads 

 be made, as the railroads have representatives to look after their interests 

 in the valuations now being made; and we believe that the interests of 

 Iowa should be equally well represented. 



Resolved, That .the state of Iowa should immediately provide the rail- 

 road commission with funds to employ special help and to incur necessary 

 expenses in the advance rate case now before the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission. 



Resolved, That we favor the appropriation, by the legislature of Iowa, 

 of funds sufficient for the manufacture of hog cholera serum to supply 

 the demands of the stock raisers of Iowa. 



Resolved, That we favor the enactment of a law providing for a long 

 term farm mortgage system, by which bonds may be issued, secured by 

 farm mortgages. 



Resolved, That there should be an official investigation of the condition 

 and practice at the live stock market centers, to ascertain whether such 

 violent fluctuations in the prices of live stock can be satisfactorily 

 explained. And in any such investigation, this association should be 

 represented. 



Resolved, That, deploring the condition of the quarantine for foot and 

 mouth disease, we believe that a more limited quarantine would have been 

 more effective, and would not have caused so much inconvenience and 

 loss. 



We here express to Mr. A. Sykes, who has been president of this asso- 

 ciation for eight years, our thanks and appreciation for his untiring 

 efforts in behalf of the association and the stock raisers of Iowa. We 

 again commend the faithful service of Secretary H. C. Wallace; and ex- 

 press our appreciation for the services rendered by the rest of the officers. 



President-elect Corrie was thereupon introduced by Chairman 

 Gunn. 



President Corrie : Gentlemen, I have felt like talking some- 

 times, but I thought it was best for you to thresh all this business 

 out yourselves. I did feel, however, as if I wanted to stand up 

 and face you fellows before I began the work of the year. It is a 

 work that has come to me very unexpectedly ; I had no thought of 

 such a thing when I left home. Mr. Sykes, as I said the other eve- 

 ning at the banquet, spent the evening with me a couple of weeks 

 ago, and we talked about association matters, but this matter of the 

 presidency did not come into my mind, nor was it talked of at all. 

 In fact, I had not thought of it until on the road up here Mr. 

 Drury said : ' ' Sykes is going to be president again ? " "As far as 

 I know," I replied; ''I don't know how he is feeling." Early the 

 next morning, Drury came to me and said they had had a meeting 



