THE I. A. A. 



RECORD 



I LiEilNOIS 



CCJLTVRAL ASSOCIA 



RECORO 



To aJvancm the purpowe for which the Farm Bureau waa organiz d, 

 namely to promote, protect and repreeent the bueineae, economic, 

 political, and educational intereatm of the farmere of lllinoia and the 

 nation, and to develop agriculture. 



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

 Illinois, by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Entered as second- 

 class matter October 20, 1926, at the post office at Mount Morris, 

 Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at 

 special rate of postage provided for in Section 412, Act of February 

 28. 1925. authorized October 27, 1925. The individual membership 

 fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars a year. The 

 fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscription to the lu-INOIS 

 Agricultural Association Record. Postmaster: In returning an un- 

 called for or missent copy please indicate key number on address as 

 is required by law. 



1 OFFICERS ' I, 



President, Earl C. SmitK Detroit 



Vice-President, Frank D. Barton ; Cornell 



Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger Chicaxo 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloominrton 



shall be recognized as a credit on computed in- 

 come tax; amendments to the Membership Act 

 and the Cooperative Marketing Act of 1923 

 which remove limitations as now contained 

 therein and intended to make possible the fur- 

 ther development of cooperative effort; restora- 

 tion of former limits to the county highway tax 

 and such amendments to the present dog tax as 

 will make possible adequate funds to take care 

 of losses sustained. if 



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14th L „ _ M. G. 1 



ISth I 1 A. N. Skim 



16th I _ J A. R. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

 (By Congressional District) 



H. C. Vial, Downers Grove 



L G. F. TuUock, Rockford 



..C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



Lambert, Ferris 



kinner, Yates City 



Wright, Vema 



17th Geo. J. StoU, Chestnut 



18th i. _ R. F. Karr, Iroquois 



I9th „ _ C. J. Gross, Atwood 



20th Charles S. Black, Jacksonville 



21st i Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd i Frank Oexner, Waterloo 



23rd , „ W. L. Cope, Salem 



24th : ...Charles Marshall, Belknap 



2Sth Fred Dietz, De Soto 



DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS 



Business Service ; X Geo. R. Wicker 



Dairy Marketing .j A. D. Lynch 



Limestone-Phosphate J. R. Bent 



Finance R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing _A. B. Leeper 



Comptroller ..._ _ J. H. Kelker 



Information ^ ^ George Thlem 



Insurance Service „..V. Vaniman 



Legal Counsel _ Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller 



Organization _ G. E. Metzger 



Produce Marketing __ F. A. Gougler 



Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson 



Transportation _ L. J. Quasey 



Before the General Assembly 



By Earl C. Smith 



THE Illinois Agricultural Association was 

 , necessarily delayed in introducing its legis- 



lative program in the 56th General Assembly 

 because it was first necessary to have the poli- 

 cies of those major things in which it was inter- 

 ested, outlined and directed by the board of 

 delegates at its recent annual meeting. It then 

 became necessary to have its executive commit- 

 tee interpret those policies and its public rela- 

 tions committee get same into shape for intro- 

 duction in the legislature. At the time of this 

 writing, all legislative matters endorsed at that 

 meeting with the exception of a gasoline tax 

 measure, have been prepared by the Association, 

 introduced by friends within the legislature and 

 are now before various committees of the two 

 houses for their consideration. 



THESE include' a State Income Tax with 

 reasonable exemptions and low rates and 

 providing that any general property tax paid 



AS REGARDS the gasoline tax, the State ad- 

 ■ ministration introduced a bill early in Feb- 

 ruary and the Association recognized that it was 

 neither necessary nor advisable to introduce an- 

 other measure of this character. This bill pro- 

 vides for tax of three (3c) cents per gallon on 

 gasoline and that the revenue derived therefrom 

 shall be divided, two-thirds going to the Depart- 

 ment of Public Works and Buildings and one- 

 third to the various counties of Illinois, the latter 

 to be divided among the counties on the basis 

 of automobile license fees paid from within the 

 counties. It further provides special appropria- 

 tions of $7,500,000 and $2,000,000 for bond 

 issue road widening and building of grade in- 

 tersections respectively from the State fund, and 

 that the county funds may be used for the im- 

 provement of secondary state-aid roads, the type 

 of improvement to be determined by the county 

 boards subject to the approval of the state high- 

 way department. , 



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REPRESENTATIVES of the Association ap- 

 peared before the senate revenue committee 

 and the house, meeting as a committee of the 

 whole, and clearly set forth such changes or 

 amendments to this measure as were necessary 

 to bring its provisions in line with the best 

 thought of our institution. \ Ji' 



While making known that we were ready and 

 willing to support a three-cent tax on gasoline, 

 we suggested and urged necessary amendments 

 to provide that the total revenue derived from 

 such a tax be divided equally between the State 

 and counties and further providing that that por- 

 tion received by the State should be used exclu- 

 sively for the completion of the One Hundred 

 Million Dollar Bond Issue system and the build- 

 ing of necessary grade intersections; and that 

 portion distributed among the several counties 

 be used for either secondary road improvement 

 or bond issue road widening as determined by 

 resolution of the county boards. t f 



THESE suggested amendments entirely remove 

 the special appropriations contained in the 

 administration bill as special inducement to the 

 larger populated areas, believing that in the 



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