262 ANNUAL KEPOBT. 



months ahead are going to be incurred. I have been a member of 

 this Society for a good many years, and a good many others here will 

 join me in the assertion that we many times have had to "put our 

 hands in our pockets" to accomplish anything; our funds were not 

 suiEcient. It has been one constant effort of the Society to get out of 

 debt. If we have any unexpended balance, as I understand, in the 

 treasury, they are willing under the rulings of the Attorney General, 

 to pass it to our credit, and we can keep it until we can see intelli- 

 gently what use we may desire to make of it for the best advantage 

 of the Society, and that will redound to the best good of the people of 

 Minnesota. 



Mr. Harris. I don't see any necessity for it, and I am opposed to 

 binding the Executive Committee as Mr. Smith's resolution would bind 

 them. I don't want it to be hampered by any such resolution, and it 

 is unnecessarv. 



Col. Stevens. If I understand it the original resolution is not before 

 the house at all. 



The Chairman. I think it is. 



President Smith. I will withdraw my motion for the sake of letting 

 the original motion come before the Society. 



Col. Stevens. Vote on the amendment, and then if the amendment 

 is carried, vote on the resolution as amended; that is the parliamentary 

 rule. All this discussion is out of order. 



The Chairman. I shall have to decide that the original motion is 

 before the house, as the amendment offered was entirely distinct from 

 the resolution. 



Col. Stevens. That don't make a bit of difference; the resolution 

 and the amendment may be as far apart as the heavens and the earth, 



Mr. Underwood. I can't agree with Col. Stevens; you might make 

 a motion to build a flour mill; it wouldn't have anything to do with 

 this motion at all. I am certain that the chairman should rule the 

 amendment out of order. 



Col. Stevens. I have been a member of both houses of the legisla- 

 ture, and I have seen a member bring in a resolution and an amend- 

 ment would be offered to it which was entirely foreign to the subject 

 of that resolution, and I have seen it passed. 



The Chairman. I will call for the reading of the resolution, and if 

 there are no further remarks I will put the motion. 



The resolution was again read. 



President Smith. I think under the law that would be out of order; 



