94 ANNUAL REPORT 



Mr. Harris, T would like to see that motion of Mr. Underwood's 

 carried. This law was passed in the interest of the agricultural por- 

 tion of this State, and if we simply turn around and ask to have it 

 repealed without giving it a fair test, it seems to me they will have no 

 further confidence in us 



Mr. Underwood. I make that motion. If we see after studying 

 the workiugs of the law that it is not what is desired, why then we 

 can recommend that it be amended so and so. But for us to take any 

 other action than that, it seems to me would be out of place, really. 

 And I would like to say, now that we have had a legislative commit- 

 tee appointed, in whom I have confidence to believe that they did the 

 best they could. The judiciary committees in the legislature consid- 

 ered the matter, and a prominent lawyer of St. Paul appeared before 

 one of the committees in opposition to the bill; and since both bodies 

 of the legislature have passed upon it, and it has been only about a 

 year since the measure was passed, I say— while I don't see any need 

 of the law, believing that every tub ought to stand on its own bottom, 

 and that people ought to be intelligent enough when they buy any" 

 thing to know what they are buying; still I am in favor now of en- 

 dorsing the action of that committee, and thus showing our confi- 

 dence in them in what has been done. If it ought to be amended, it 

 should not prevent endorsing the action of the committee 



Mr. Nobles. I second the motion, but I object to the amendment. 



President Elliot. I understand the amendment goes further than 

 the motion of Mr. Latham, and endorses the law. 



Mr. Gould. I want to offer an amendment to the amendment, in 

 order to protect my friend Pearce and others. I am candid in think- 

 ing the nurserymen of the State should be protected; outside of the 

 State I don't see anything wrong. 



President Elliot. They are protected in this way, that if they go 

 and file their bond they have a right to buy and ship as much as they 

 have a mind to. 



Mr. Harris. I suppose the filing of one bond is all that is necessary 

 in order to conduct the business according to the requirements of the 

 the law. 



Mr. Underwood. I hope we shall have confidence enough in our 

 committee to endorse their action. Because a few nurserymen down 

 east have made a howl that should make no difference. And because 

 some of our small fruit growers object to it is no good reason for 

 refusal to do this; the simple matter of paying a couple of dollars for 

 filing the bonds required, is a small matter, and it would have fixed 



