154 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Mr. Shipman (Muscatine) : I move that the chairman appoint a com- 

 mittee of three for that purpose. 



E. T. Austin (Marshall) : Second. 



The Chairman: Is there a question? 



J. P. Mullen: I am not sure that I am fully informed on this ques- 

 tion, but I have never learned what the Board of Agriculture has to do 

 with the American Trotting Association or the votes cast by the state 

 of Iowa members of the American Trotting Association, or any of their 

 transactions in Chicago.^ I believe that each county and district fair 

 has a vote at that convention. It is true that we have the president of 

 the state fair here, who is a member of the American Trotting Associa- 

 tion, but he does not derive that from his connection with the Board of 

 Agriculture, he derives that by being elected at Chicago by the votes 

 of the members of the American Trotting Association from all over the 

 west and central west. 



I am not opposed to this motion, understand, but the idea, if the 

 county and district fairs of Iowa take advantage of their membership 

 in the American Trotting Association, and they have the right to be rep- 

 resented at the annual election in some way, either in person or by proxy, 

 that is the only way you can have your wishes made effective. Of course, 

 the State Board of Agriculture will meet your wishes in the matter, but 

 as a State Board of Agriculture, they have nothing to do with the Amer- 

 ican Trotting Association. If you should designate somebody to vote 

 your proxies for you, that would be another thing. 



The Chairman: As members of the American Trotting Association, 

 we have a right to be represented at their annual meeting and have a 

 voice in framing all these things. I don't see where any particular good 

 could be done by appointing any special committee, although I don't 

 want to criticize these resolutions. It says: 



Be it further 



Resolved, That this convention appoint a committee to confer with the 

 State Board of Agriculture at their meeting December 11th relative to 

 having some representation at the Horsemen's meeting in Chicago De- 

 cember I 



Mr. Shipman (Muscatine) : I made the motion, and possibly I didn't 

 understand what was wanted. I understand that there is a meeting of 

 the Horsemen called, I think, for Wednesday of next week at Chicago, 

 and my idea was that we might possibly want to be represented at that 

 meeting. The American Trotting Association meets in February. You 

 are all entitled to go there — I go myself every time, and the secretaries 

 are missing a lot if they do not go; but if that is the meeting that is 

 meant, I want to withdraw my motion. 



The Chairman: This says at the Horsemen's meeting, which is the 

 meeting proposed for Chicago next week. 



George White (Mills): I made the suggestion to the committee ].ny- 

 self, with regard to that. 



The Chairman: This is a meeting to be held in Chicago next wee\<., 

 and it is the desire of the Resolutions Committee that we appoint a 



