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iu a low i)la('(' and wlicii it rained the water ran into it. The 

 stall should be elevated high and dry. 



Another thing I wish this body would carry to the legislature 

 and that is the exorbitant prices charged for stallions. I asked 

 one person, "Why do you charge more for a stallion?" He said, 

 "Because he is a stallion." I said, "Well, then, why do you not 

 charge more for a man than for a woman?" "I haven't time to 

 argue that just now," he said, "but that is the law." Now, we 

 would like to have that changed. Down east they don't charge a 

 cent, and I think those things ought to be looked after. 



The President : I just rise to ask a personal privilege. I 

 suppose probably I will have to apologize for the Fonda well; 

 but, connected with the statement that there was plenty of good 

 w^ater on the ground in many places, of course, looking at it as a 

 matter of levity, we thought those fellows were accustomed to 

 worse things than that. 



Delegate from Marshalltown : Mr. President, so far as the 

 IVIarshall County fair is concerned, I fully realize the benefit of 

 the horse racing that we have at our fair, both as a source of 

 entertainment and as a source of profit to us, and we are willing 

 that the horses bring us a profit. Now, we have been discussing 

 up there to some extent; that is, Mr. Bennett, superintendent of 

 speed, and myself, the state races another year, and this thought 

 came into my mind : The plan of allowing the owner to make 

 two or three entries, name two or three horses on the first of May, 

 when these dates closed. If he named three, give him the privilege 

 of dropping out one of those on the first of June and drop out 

 a second one on the first of July, paying 1 per cent, on the 

 first, July 1st, and the other 2 per cent, at the time of starting his 

 horses. Whether such a plan as that would be feasible or in con- 

 flict with the rules of the American Trotting Association — that is, 

 for a man to name three horses, say, the first of May, pay 1 per 

 cent., and the first of June he can drop out one of these and leave 

 the other two in ; the first of July he could drop out the other one — 

 that, is take his choice, after two months' additional training, as 

 to the horse he wanted to enter in that race. Whether it w^ould 

 be feasible and in accordance with the American Trotting Asso- 

 ciation. 



Mr. Woods: Suppose that a man only had one horse, then he 

 gives somebody three chances to his one. I do not approve of that 

 plan at all; it is very bad. 



