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good deal better to devote our energies to getting the state laws somewhat 

 more uniform than to try to have a national bill passed." 



Another says: "There are some 'IFS' in it. 



"If all state laws were abolished or amended to conform to the national 

 law, that would be all right, but they will not amend or abolish because that 

 would be looked on as interference with that time-honored proposition of 

 'state rights.' 



"If we could have a good national law to cover the whole business and 

 all state laws out of the way, it would be a great gain, but as it appears to 

 me, it would make further complications just now to try to have a national 

 bill passed. We might have a national law to cover importations from for- 

 eign countries, provided it could be made to harmonize with the present state 

 laws. As the matter stands, I do not feel that there is much to gain in the 

 proposed legislation." 



SUMMING UP THE WHOLE MATTER: The last letter puts it in a nut- 

 shell and it is now for you to decide — 



First: If all state laws were abolished or amended to conform to a national 

 law, that would be all right. 



Second: They will not amend or abolish. 



Third: What are we to gain by adding another law? 



Fourth: Will it help the entomologists and inspectors in doing more effi- 

 cient work or help the fruit-growers by adding another inspection? 



I want to say I have given this some little time and quite a good deal of 

 thought, and, after doing so, I would recommend that a resolution looking 

 forward to making some definite arrangement for inspecting imported stock 

 be adopted. But further than that I have no recommendation to make other 

 than that based on the report. 



Orlaxuo Harrison, 



Committee on National Inspection Law. 



The members of the visiting committee were then called upon for 

 remarks. The purpose of the resohition which had previously been 

 endorsed by the Association of Economic Entomologists and the Asso- 

 ciation of Horticultural Inspectors was fully explained and national 

 legislation was pointed out as the best method of bringing about uni- 

 form regulations and practice in the inspection for stock received from 

 foreign countries or for stock passing into interstate commerce. A 

 motion was made and seconded that the report be accepted and, after 

 a general discussion of the matter in which several nurserymen ex- 

 pressed their opinion that any national legislation was undesirable, 

 it was passed unanimously. 



At the afternoon session a resolution was offered by Mr. Kelsey 

 of New York which was unanimously adopted and is as folloAVS : 



Rei^olved, That the vice-president of each state be and hereby is authorized 

 on behalf of this association to use all reasonable endeavor to have any dras- 

 tic legislation now in force in his state modified to conform to the laws of 

 other states, the practical workings of which have not entailed undue hard- 

 ship to the nurserymen or fruit-growers in their execution of such laws. 



