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be carefully guarded, but he did fear that it might be administered 

 in a very strict manner by such a keen person as Doctor Marlatt (and 

 he mentioned him by name). The latter replied that he would not 

 accept such a thankless and difficult position. 



. However, when the bill did pass in 191 2, Doctor Marlatt was 

 induced to accept the chairmanship of the Board which he held with 

 very great efficiency and tact until the close of 1929. 



It is an interesting and somewhat sad commentary on the delay in 

 securing this legislation that during the interval of four years between 

 the original introduction of the bill and its final passage in 191 2 no less 

 than seven important pests, many of which are now the subject of 

 very considerable State and Federal appropriations, entered this 

 country and became established — such pests, for example, as the 

 European corn borer, the Japanese and related Asiatic beetles, the 

 oriental fruit moth, and the Citrus canker. 



The energetic enforcement of the provisions of the Act of 191 2, 

 brought about by Doctor Marlatt's intelligent energy, aided by Con- 

 gressional appropriations, has been undoubtedly of the greatest value 

 to the United States. 



In looking over some old papers, I have found some notes of a 

 lecture that I gave in the spring of 1912 before the Brooklyn Insti- 

 tute and before the Staten Island Academy of Sciences. I talked in 

 this way several times during the winter of 1911-12. In order to 

 convey an impression of the way we felt at that time and to give 

 an idea of the efiforts we were making, I think that it will be interest- 

 ing to quote from those notes : 



In most if not all European governments many laws are made in the form of 

 decrees issued by the ruler or by his council or by the ministry, and these may 

 or may not be subject to ratification by the parliament or house of delegates. 



In the United States, even in case of emergency, a bill must be carefully drafted 

 and must pass both the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United 

 States at a session always crowded with business and by Members and Senators 

 dependent for their places upon men representing many opposing business 

 interests. 



Partly for this reason and partly for others, the United States is the only 

 important agricultural country in the world today which does not have a national 

 quarantine and inspection law governing the introduction of plants and prevent- 

 ing the introduction of injurious insects and plant diseases. This country today 

 is the dumping-ground for plants which could not be sold in any other market 

 in the world, while the rest of the horticultural world is quarantined against us. 



This was followed by an account of the European legislation 

 against the Phylloxera, the German decrees against American pork, 

 the sending of Doctor Stiles to Germany to investigate the alleged 



