AID OTHER GOOD BILLS AND HELP KILL BAD ONES 



tative McCarthy for House Bill 509 in- 

 troduced by him. The contents of the 

 two bills were the same. This bill was 

 on the order of third reading in the 

 House on that last memorable night of 

 the session, and although Representa- 

 tive McCarthy tried many times to get 

 recognition during those last hours of 

 the session to bring this bill up for 

 final passage, he failed to do so and 

 this bill died, with many other good 

 pieces of leg^islation. This bill sought 

 to amend Section 15 of the Coopera- 

 tive Act of June, 1923, and would have 

 clarified and streng^thened the Act. 



Corn Borer Bill* 



S. B. 553 also introduced by Senator 

 Lantz was another good measure. This 

 bill sought to make a special appro- 

 priation to the University of Illinois in 

 the amount of $30,000 for special re- 

 search work in corn borer control and 

 eradication. This bill easily passed 

 the Senate and was referred to the 

 Appropriation Committee in the House, 

 where it hit a formidable snag -in the 

 person of Tom Curran, Chairman of 

 that Committee, who refused week 

 after week to allow the measure to be 

 brought up for consideration. After 

 several efforts on the part of associa- 

 tion representatives, it was finally 

 voted out of the Committee with rec- 

 ommendations that it do pass and was 

 advanced on the calendar to the order 

 of third reading. Due to this delay 

 it remained there at the close of the 

 session although Representative Gus 

 Johnson made strenuous efforts to have 

 the bill considered. ,. . ■:■■:. 



House Bill 208 introduced by Rep- 

 resentative C. M. Turner, is known as 

 the corn borer bill. This bill provides 

 the regulations for the Department of 

 Agriculture to cooperate with the Fed- 

 eral Department in the control and 

 eradication of the corn borer. With 

 the consent of the Director of the 

 State Department of Agriculture, we 

 succeeded in amending this bill so 

 that the farmer can in no instance be 

 held responsible for costs exceeding 

 $1 per acre for measures put into ef- 

 fect for such control. This bill as 

 originally drawn provided that the 

 farmer could be responsible up to $1.50 

 ner acre. ■•■:.-•:.._. ;^ :•' 



Secondly, we list those bills to which 



-/e have referred in connection with 



the State Department of Agriculture. 



Association representatives aided in 



he passage of these measures, all of 



/hich were signed by the Governor 



.nd became law. 



T. B. Measure Passes 



Under this division is S. B. 186 intro- 

 'uced by Senator Lantz. This bill is 

 I \ Hn amendment to the Tuberculosis 

 1 Eradication measure clarifying the 



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present act and extending the power 

 of the Department of Agriculture en- 

 abling it to clean up the herds in the 

 counties under State and Federal Su- 

 pervision more promptly, and to place 

 such counties in the accredited area 

 list. 



House Bill 471 introduced by Rep- 

 resentative O'Hair, seeks to regulate 

 the sale of commercial fertilizer. 

 Your Legislative Committee together 

 with Mr. Bent of the I. A. A. and Dr. 

 Bauer, University of Illinois, sat in 

 with representatives of the State De- 

 partment of Agriculture and succeeded 

 in having amendments adopted to the 

 bill which excludes from the provisions 

 of the law, raw rock phosphate, agri- 

 cultural limestone, marl, gypsum, ani- 

 mal manure and burnt and hydrated 

 lime. 



Aided Other Good Bills 



Thirdly, are listed those bills intro- 

 duced by others and which subsequent- 

 ly passed both Houses and became law 

 which the association Legislative Com- 

 mittee felt were good bills and so aided 

 as best it could in their passage. 



Senate Bill 181 introduced by Sen- 

 ator Flagg was one of these. This bill 

 provided for an appropriation to re- 

 imburse farmers in the wheat section 

 of Southwestern Illinois for straw de- 

 stroyed in the control of flag smut. 



Senate Bill 89 introduced in the Sen- 

 ate by Senator Abt and House Bill 

 106 introduced in the House by Repre- 

 sentative Petri both sought to amend 

 Section 24 of Article 3 of the fish and 

 game law. The law as it stood, per- 

 mitted hunting on any land unless th. 

 owner posts or publishes notices. These 

 amendments provided that the hunter 

 must procure permission of the owner 

 before hunting. The provisions of 

 these bills were placed in S. B. 572 

 known as the fish and game act and 

 thus became law. '••'.', 



House Bill 276 introduced by Repre- 

 sentative Foster included swine among 

 the animals for which reimbursement 

 is made from the dog tax fund with a 

 maximum allowance of $25. 



House Bill 314 introduced by Repre- 

 sentative Foster was a bill to aid in 

 the control of rabies. Both of these 

 bills passed and became law. 



:■:::.. Aid Anti-Chicken Thief Bill 



House Bill 325 introduced by Repre- 

 sentative Whitely and known as the 

 anti-chicken thief bill. This bill was 

 mainly sponsored by the Prairie Farm- 

 er and Anti-Horse Thief and Detective 

 Associations. The Illinois Agricultural 

 Association's Leg^islative Committee 

 was called upon to sit in with repre- 

 sentatives of the Prairie Farmer and 

 Anti-Horse Thief Associations in fram- 

 ing this bill. After its introduction, 



Sen- 



the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 lent every effort to aid in its passage. 

 This bill was signed by the Governor 

 and became law. 



House Bill 511 introduced by Repre- 

 sentative Arnold creates a commission 

 of five members composed of the Di- 

 rector of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Superintendent of Waterways, 

 one Senatoi^, one Representative and 

 one citizen residing in the Illinois 

 River Valley to be appointed by the 

 Governor. The duties of the commis- 

 sion are to study the cause of floods 

 and contnol of same in the Illinois 

 River Valley and report the status 

 of its wotk to the 56th General As- 

 sembly. I I |- , ;■ ■■ "J; •; 



Senate Bill 414 intr'oduced b^r 

 ator Forrelster and Senate Bill 257 in- 

 troduced by Senator Hicks, passed both 

 Houses with the understanding that 

 whichever one of these the Governor 

 decided upon to be the best should be 

 signed by him and the other one 

 vetoed. Both of these bills create a 

 commission to study the revenue sit- 

 uation in the State. Your Committee 

 feels that S. B. 257 is the better of the 

 two, and accordingly President Smith 

 has written Governor Small our in- 

 terest in his Signing Senate Bill 257 in 

 preference to Senate Bill 412. 1 '| 



Anotheri'piece of legislation in which 

 your representatives took a part was 

 embodied first in S. B. 254 introduced 

 by Senator Flagg and afterwards in 

 S. B. 419 by Senate Motor Vehicle 

 Committee. Early in the session the 

 attention ot your Committee was 

 called to the extra license fee collected 

 from farmers on small trucks used in 

 carrying their own produce to market 

 with U e produce of a few of their 

 neighbors. Slaving in mind the cor- 

 rection of the law to cover such in- 

 stances. Senator Flagg introduced S. 

 B. 354. l*hi$ bill, however, was tabled 

 in Committee and its provisions in- 

 cluded in S. B. 419 as stated above. 

 This bill passed in the Senate and was 

 upon the brder of second reading in 

 the House where it remained until tht 



close. 



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Klill Bad Legislation 



Fourthly, one of the tasks of the 

 Legislative Committee of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association is to watch 

 for legislation detrimental to farmers. 

 In addition to Senate Bill 446 as de- 

 scribed among our major projects were 

 the following : 



House Bill 394 introduced by Repre- 

 sentative Rush was placed in this 

 group. This bill sought to amend the 

 Bovine Tuberculosis Act permitting 

 Farm Advisers to administer the tuber- 

 culin test to cattle. Because of the 

 fact that Representative Rush is the 

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