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committee to confer with the State Fair Board who, in turn, will send 

 a committee to Chicago to represent our interests. 



The Secretary: I wonder if a committee of one will not be sufficient 

 instead of having three? 



G. B. Bliss (Adams) : That was the idea that the committee had. 



E. T. Austin (Marshall) : I don't understand that the committee of 

 three will go to Chicago, but the committee of three will confer with the 

 Board of Agriculture, and then I suppose they would be the ones that 

 would pick out the men to send to Chicago. 



L. R. Pike (Harrison) : I think the idea of the Resolutions Commit- 

 tee was that there are two or three members of the State Board at the 

 meeting that expect to go to the Chicago meeting. The idea of the Reso- 

 lution Committee was to have this convention appoint a committee to 

 take it up with those members tomorrow and appoint one of the boys 

 that are going in there to represent this body. Now, Mr. Cameron, I 

 believe, is going in, and two or three others are going in. Any one of 

 them can represent the convention here, and that is the idea of the reso- 

 lution. Not the meeting of the Trotting Association, but the meeting of 

 the Horsemen, to discuss the fourteen points brought up. I think the 

 representation can be secured by appointing some of the members that 

 are going anyway, without any expense. 



C. E. Cameron (Buena Vista) : You understand that this call that has 

 been made by Mr. Magnus Fl&ws in Chicago is to the Horsemen, it is not 

 to the associations, and whatever action this body takes in Chicago on next 

 Wednesday will have to be submitted to the American Trotting Asso- 

 ciation for adoption. Now, we are all members of the American Trot- 

 ting Association — we are the American Trotting Association. Every 

 member here who is a member of the American Trotting Association has 

 a voice in . the rules and regulations governing the American Trotting 

 Association. This body that will meet in Chicago next Wednesday no 

 doubt will formulate certain rules to recommend to the American Trot- 

 ting Association, where action will be taken, but it is at the American 

 Trotting Association meeting where we want to be represented. Whether 

 the rules asked will be a detriment to the fairs of this country I do not 

 know, but we will say whether we are in favor of those rules or that 

 we are not in favor of them.. Where we want to be represented is at 

 the meeting of the American Trotting Association in February, and each 

 and every man here holds a membership in it. I don't think I shall go 

 to Chicago for this Horsemen's meeting. Mr. Curtin was talking of 

 going, and I am only sorry that he is not here to read his address on the 

 subject to you. The object of the Chicago meeting is that they have got 

 to make these rules and then take them up with our body before they 

 can be put in force. Our body is the American Trotting Association and 

 that is where we have -got to make our stand against any unjust laws. 



J. P. Mullen (Pocahontas) : That is just the point I had reference 

 to in my talk, that the American Trotting Association is the legislative 

 body under which we race and under which the Horsemen race, and 

 the men should go from Iowa to that convention — as stated before all 

 have the right to go — but if you don't go, see that your proxy is sent by 



