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RECORD 



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CCL TUBAL ASSOCIA 



RECORD 



To mdomncm thm parpotm for mhich tho Fmrm Burmmu wa« orgmnizod, 

 nomoiy to promoto, protect and ropro—nt thm buainmam, «conom<Cp 

 politicol, and odueotionat intmrmata of tiim farmora of iiiinoia and thm 

 nation, and to dmomiop agricufturm* 



Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Horria, 

 IllinoU, by the Illinoii Acrieoltnral Auoeiation. Edited by Department 

 of Informatioo, E. G. Thiem. Director, 608 South Dearborn Street, 

 Chicaco, tllinoia. Entered a* •econd-clam matter October 20. 1926, at 

 the poet office at Mount Morris, Illinois, under the Act of March S, 1879. 

 Accepted for mailins at special rate of postage provided for in Sec- 

 tion 412. Act of February 28. 192S. authorized October 27, 192S. The 

 Individual membership fee of the Illinois AKricultaral Association is 

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 acription to the Illinois Aobicultural Association Record. Post- 

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OFFICERS 



PreaMent, Earl C. Smith i ; Detroit 



Vice-President, Franl< D. Bartoa J Cornell 



Trcaaurer, R. A. Cowlca 1 Bloomincton 



BXECUTIVE COMMITTEB 

 (By Con«reaaianal Diatricta) 



.H. C. Vial, Downers Grove 

 . , .G. F. Tullock. Rockford 

 . . .C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



M. G. Lambert, Ferris 



. .A. N. Skiimcr. Yates City 



A. R. Wright. Varna 



. . . .Geo. J. Stoll, Cheatnut 

 R. F. Karr, Iroquois 



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19th , J. L. Whisnand, Charleston 



20th Charles S. Black, Jackaonvillc 



21at Samuel Sorrclls, Raymond 



23ad Frank Ocxner. Waterloo 



ntd W. L. Cope, Salem 



M(h Charles Marshair Belknap 



2Sth Fred Diets, De Soto 



DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMEr4TS 



Bualneas Service Geo. R. Wicker 



Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch 



Llnnestone-Phosphate J. R. Bent 



Finance R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Lceper 



General Office J. H. Kelker 



Information E.G. Thiem 



Insurance Service 4 V. Vaniman 



Legal Counsel L Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing f. Ray E. Miller 



Organization i G. £. Metzger 



Produce Marketing' , F. A. Gougler 



Taxation and Statiatica J. C. Watson 



Transportation L. J. Quaaey 



The Proposed $20,000,000 Bond Issue 



The Executive Committee of the I. A. A. wnanimoualy adopted the fol- 

 loKnng report of ilt Public Relationt Committee toith reference to the 

 proposed bond tame of ttO.OOO.OOO for acguiring a atate-wide ayatem of 

 fiahing and hunting grounds at its reifidar meeting on Sept. 7, 1918: 



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IN THE general election in November of this year, 

 the people of Illinois will vote upon a proposition 

 submitted by the Fifty-fifth General Assembly authorizing 

 the State of Illinois, through the Governor and Depart- 

 ment of Conservation, to issue, sell, and provide for the 

 retirement of bonds of the State to the amount of twenty 

 million dollars for the purpose of acquiring and estab- 

 lishing a state-wide system of fishing and hunting 

 grounds. 



"It is provided in the Act submitting the bond issue 

 that, to be approved by the people, it must receive a ma- 

 jority of the votes cast for members of the General As- 

 sembly in the November election. 



"If the Act is apprpved by the people, it is provided 

 that the rate of interest on any bonds that may be issued 

 shall not exceed four per cent per annum, and that no 

 bond shall be issued for a period of more than thirty 

 years. 



"If the issue of bonds for the purpose stated is ap- 

 proved by vote of the people, the state officers will be 

 authorized to levy a tax on property from year to year 



sufficient to meet interest on the outstanding bonds and 

 to retire the bonds as they become due. It is provided, 

 however, that moneys in the Game and Fish Fund be first 

 used for such payments and requires the omission of a 

 direct tax on property in any year in which sufficient 

 money from other sources of revenue has been appropri- 

 ated to meet such payment for such year.. 



"The Act also declares its intent that the state-wide 

 system of fishing and hunting grounds, including all fish- 

 ing and hunting grounds, fish and game preserves, 

 refugees, rest grounds, and sanctuaries now owned by the 

 State of Illinois, shall be spread out over the entire state 

 roughly proportionate to population, so that all the people 

 shall have approximately the same opportunity to partake 

 of its benefits. 



"The officers and the Committee on Public Relations of 

 the Association have been urged to endorse and to give 

 public notice of their position on the proposed bond issue. 



"Due consideration has been given to the arguments 

 and figures presented by supporters of the bond issue, and 

 to additional figures compiled by our Department of Tax- 

 ation. The Committee has reports for recent years giv- 

 ing the receipts from hunting and fishing licenses into the 

 Game and Fish Fund of the State, and appropriations and 

 expenditures therefrom by the former Division of Game 

 and Fish of the State Department of Agriculture, and, 

 beginning in 1925, by the State Department of Conserva- 

 tion. 



"All of this information has been analyzed by the 

 Department of Taxation for the purpose of determining 

 as definitely as possible whether the proposed bond issue 

 involves serious danger of requiring a state tax on gen- 

 eral property either for the payment of interest on out- 

 standing bonds and the retirement of the bonds as they 

 become due, or for the expense of administration by the 

 Department of Conservation. 



"If the bond issue is approved, the extensive system of 

 hunting and fishing lands purchased with the proceeds of 

 the bond issue will require very large additional expense 

 for improvement, maintenance, stocking with game and 

 fish, and protection, and for administration by the De- 

 partment of Conservation. All such expense must be paid 

 out of the Game and Fish Fund of the State derived from 

 hunting and fishing licenses alone, or out of appropria- 

 tions therefor out of the general or other funds of the 

 State. 



"The Committee does not believe that the number of 

 hunting and fishing licenses issued in the state, or the 

 schedule of fees therefor, will be increased to such an 

 extent as to meet all the expenses of the Department and 

 the principal of the bonds and interest thereon. The Com- 

 mittee is convinced, therefore, that approval of the bond 

 issue by the people of the State will soon result in the 

 levy of a state tax on general property for these purposes. 

 Once levied, such a tax, like other taxes, is likely both to 

 become permanent and to increase in amount. 



"Following the well defined policy of the Association 

 to give information on all state and national questions in- 

 volving agriculture, we are here giving our conclusions on 

 this matter. The Illinois Agricultural Association is not 

 opposed to a state-wide progrrani of conserving and de- 

 veloping natural resources for hunting and fishing; how- 

 ever, with all the information available, the Association 

 does not believe it possible to establish, improve, main- 

 tain, and protect so extensive a system without a further 

 increase in general property taxes. 



"The Illinois Agricultural Association is definitely com- 

 mitted to a program of resisting any tax increases at 

 least until assessments of property in this state are made 

 upon a uniform basis and the state constitution is amend- 

 ed in such a way as to permit a fair taxing system." 



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