52 Tzi'ciity-si.vfli Annual Meeting 



Mr. i'cahod}-: I ni<n'c to anu'iid hy making' it the second 

 week in Jul}-. I think lousiness men, as a rule, after the 4th of 

 July feel more at liberty to take the time. During June there is 

 a sort of a closing up of affairs and getting ready for vacations, 

 going into the ccnuitry or wliatever it luay l)e, and it strikes me 

 the second week in July \\(ndd suit more people than anv other 

 time. 



Mr. Clark: When I was on ni\- feet l)efore, I had in mind 

 to offer a motion that we meet the third Tuesday in July. Your 

 motion or suggestion of the last week in June must necessarily 

 shut out a great majority of the sui)erintendents of the United 

 States h'ish Conuuission. We are here on borrowed time 

 really now. The United States l^'ish Cc^nuuission superintendents 

 at the close of the fiscal year are very busy in making up their 

 reports. Our rules and regulations require us to have our re- 

 ports in the Washington of^ce on the loth dav of July, and 

 business nowadays is very prompt in the Ignited States Fish Com- 

 luission, and it must ])e. If vou want those men here you must 

 liave it a little earlier or a litMe later, and the state su]~)erintend- 

 ents, ] presume, are busy in the same \\a\-. perhaps not so much 

 so, lint to a certain extent, and 1 had in mind to move to make it 

 the third Tuesda}- in July. 



A Meml)er: I will second Mr. Peabody's motion for the 

 sect:>nd week in Jul}-. 



j\Ir. Peabodv: I am willing to leave it to the E.xecutive Com- 

 mittee, to put it any time after the loth of July. 



Chairman Whitakcr: It woidd be an unsatisfactory thing to 

 leave a matter of that kind to the l-'xecutive Comiuittee. The 

 societv ought to settle this date itself, and it seems to me 

 this is just the time to get the consensus of opinion as to what 

 time we want to fix. 



Mr. Clark: There is no ver\- good reason, it seems to me, 

 for haxing it so early. We are all aware that all the expositions 

 we have ever had in this country, during the first two months did 

 not amount to much. 



Mr. Peabody: With the consent of the second, I will Avith- 

 draw my motion. 



Chairman Whitaker: The question now is on Mr. Clark's 

 luotion. The luotion l:)efore the society is that we lueet in Omaha 

 on the third Tuesday in July, 1898. 



