June, '10] SANDERSON : INSECTICIDE ACT 277 



Baltimore, Md., with the understanding that if any material amend- 

 ments were to be made that the conference be again called together 

 for their discussion. This committee met and organized as an 

 "Executive Committee" and proceeded to arouse public interest in 

 the measure and to do what was possible toward the passage of the 

 bill before Congress. 



An Advisory Board, consisting of one member from each state, 

 was appointed to aid in securing support for the measure in each 

 state and to these gentlemen the committee is greatly indebted for 

 the public-spirited interest. 



Certain changes in the standard of lead arsenate having been 

 desired by certain manufacturers, a meeting of the manufacturers of 

 arsenate of lead was called at the Belmont Hotel, New York City, 

 December 8, 1908, and after full discussion the committee was in- 

 structed to secure an amendment to that portion of Section 7 referring 

 to the standard for arsenate of lead so that it should read as in the 

 bill now law. 



The bill having been reintroduced in the Sixty-first Congress 

 another conference of the manufacturers was called by the Executive 

 Committee to ascertain if any further amendments were desired, 

 which met at the Hotel Woodstock, New York City, November 18, 

 1909. At this meeting there were thirteen firms represented, which 

 firms produce fully 80 per cent, of the insecticides of this country 

 and the larger part of the manufactured fungicides. It was voted to 

 recommend that the bill be amended so that the penalties prescribed 

 in Section 2 be the same in Section 1, with this amendment the 

 manufacturers present heartily endorsed the bill as amended and 

 pledged their support and cooperation toward its enactment into law. 



For the past two years the executive committee named above have 

 held frequent meetings at various places and visited Washington 

 several times in the interests of the measure and have sent copies 

 of the bill to interested parties thruout the country thus gi\ang the 

 measure publicity and calling the attention of Congress to the interests 

 of their constituents in the measure. The agricultural press has taken 

 a lively interest in the law and has given it considerable space. The 

 passage of the law would have been much more difficult had it not 

 been for the liberal financial support of the leading manufacturers 

 who contributed liberally to the expenses of the committee, the total 

 contributions amounting to $750.00 of which $206.67 still remains in 

 the treasurj'-. 



Altho during the Sixtieth Congress there was some slight opposi- 

 tion by a certain element among the insecticide manufacturers, this 



