other schools, or the consolidation of dis- 

 tricts whenever the people of the dis- 

 tricts included so desire. 



We regard it as ■wholly 'unfair that 

 owners of farms and other ordinary busi- 

 ness property, and owners of homes, who 

 cannot afford to object to illegal taxes 

 or to any illegal portion of tax levies and 

 rates, are required to pay such illegal 

 levies and rates, which are avoided 

 through tax objections by many cor- 

 porations and individuals of much 

 greater ability to pay. We, therefore, re- 

 quest and direct the officers and the 

 Board of Directors of the Association to 

 prepare and sponsor legislation which 

 will make it possible for all taxpayers to 

 share in the benefits of final decisions of 

 the courts holding any tax levy or tax 

 rate, or any portion thereof, illegal. 



XII 



We commend the efforts of the Fed- 

 eral, State and other law enforcement 

 agencies in their relentless war on crime. 

 In furtherance of these efforts we believe 

 the laws creating the Illinois state police 

 force should be amended to provide for 

 an adequate force selected on a merit 

 basis free from political influences, with 

 full powers of peace officers, except serv- 

 ice of legal process, and properly 

 equipped to cope with modem organized 

 crime. 



As proper bookkeeping and accounting 

 is essential for the efficient administra- 

 tion of public offices and for the informa- 

 tion of taxpayers, we recommend the 

 passage of State legislation creating a 

 State board of accounts consisting of 

 State officers as ex-officio members and 

 empowered to prescribe a uniform system 

 of accounts for the several respective 

 types and classes of local governmental 

 units with reasonable provisions for pub- 

 licity as to budgets and expenditures and 

 to audit the accounts of any local gov- 

 ernmental unit upon request of the offi- 

 cials or taxpayers thereof. 



XIV 



Of the several State Departments, the 

 Department of Agriculture is especially 

 well informed concerning the problems 

 of farmers and conditions surrounding 

 the production of their commodities and 

 we therefore recommend that the admin- 

 istration of all state laws relating to or 

 regulating the production of agricultural 

 commodities, be vested in the Department 

 of Agriculture and we strenuously op- 

 pose all efforts to vest the administra- 

 tion of such laws elsewhere. 



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We favor the enactment of State legis- 

 lation for the control and regrulation of 

 the marketing and distribution of fluid 



FEBRUARY, 193S 



milk and cream in order to supplement 

 the licensing program of the Agricul- 

 tural Adjustment Administration, aid in 

 enforcement of licenses in border mar- 

 kets, stabilize the industry in the interior 

 markets, protect against trade practices 

 which result in lower prices to farmers, 

 and safeg^uard and strengfthen co-oper- 

 ative associations of milk producers. 



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In order to better insure and provide 

 a clean, wholesome milk supply, we rec- 

 ommend legfislation for the elimination 

 of diseased dairy animals, particularly 

 those affected with Bang's disease, the 

 loss incurred in the disposal of diseased 

 animals to be shared by the Federal 

 government, the State and the owner of 

 the animals. We further recommend the 

 strengthening and strict enforcement of 

 the applicable laws and regulations in 

 order to guard against the importation 

 of diseased dairy animals into Illinois 

 except for slaughter. 



A closing resolution of thanks to the 

 Adams County Farm and Home Bureaus, 

 Chamber of Commercp, Quincy Herald 

 Whig, High School, and other local 

 groups was also adopted. Additional reso- 

 lutions offered from the floor asked the 

 Board of Directors to study and investi- 

 gate the school system in Illinois, con- 

 solidation and related qnestionB, alio 

 the possibility of better supervision of 

 weighing and grading livestock at coun- 

 try concentration points. 



Resolutions committee members were 

 A. R. Wright, Chairman; W. L. Cope, E. 

 E. Houghtby, K. T. Smith, E. D. Law- 

 rence, A. O. Eckert, Chas. Marshall, 

 Frank Bohn, Clark County; J. J. Smith, 

 DeWitt County; Leo Pauling, DuPage 

 County; B. L. Baird, Knox County; Enos 

 Waters, Macoupin County. 



Policy Resolutions 



Passed At Quincy 



On Public Office 



RESOLVED, That on and after July 1, 

 1936, or in the case of present officers 

 and directors of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association, of any County Farm Bu- 

 reau or of any subsidiary or affiliated 

 company connected therewith who also 

 holds any hereinafter described Federal, 

 state or county office or position on and 

 after the expiration of the term of either 

 such office or the expiration of such em- 

 ployment, whichever first occurs, no offi- 

 cer or director of the Dlinois Agricul- 

 tural Association, of any County Farm 

 Bureau or of any subsidiary or affiliated 

 company connected with the Illinois Ag- 

 ricultural Association or with a County 

 Farm Bureau shall be a candidate for 

 nomination, election or appointment to or 

 the holder of any remunerative elective 

 or appointive Federal, State or County 



office or position where Hie compensa- 

 tion is payable other than on a per diem 

 basis. In the event any such officer or 

 director becomes a candidate for or is 

 nominated, elected or appointed to any 

 such public office or position his office 

 or directorship in the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association, County Farm Bureau 

 or subsidiary or affiliated company, as 

 the case may be, automatically shall be 

 deemed and become vacant. In the event 

 any such candidate becomes a candidate 

 for or is elected or appointed to any 

 such public office or position, his can- 

 didacy for office or directorship in the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association, County 

 Farm Bureau or subsidiary or affiliated 

 company, as the case may be, auto- 

 matically shall be deemed withdrawn and 



abandoned. 



[■.■■■■' K 

 On Employment 



RESOLVED, that in the case of new 

 employment on and after March 1, 1935, 

 and in the case of existing employment 

 on and after the termination of the pres- 

 ent contract of employment or the 

 termination of the present term of of- f 

 fke of the officer or director involved, 

 whichever shall first occur, no mem- 

 ber of the immediate family of an 

 officer or director of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association, of an officer or di- 

 rector of any County Farm Bureau, or 

 of an officer or director of any sub- 

 sidiary or affiliated company connected 

 with the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion or with any County Farm Bureau, 

 shall be eligible for employment by or be 

 employed by the Association, Farm Bu- 

 reau or affiliated or subsidiary company 

 in which such officer or director is an 

 officer or director. "Member of the im- 

 mediate family" as used herein, means 

 and includes the spouse and the children, 

 sisters, brothers and parents of the offi- 

 cer or director, whether liie relationship 

 is of the whole or half Mood, foster, or 

 arises by marriage and in ^addition means 

 and includes any blood, n^orital or foster 

 relative residing in the same household 

 with such officer or director. 



Membership In Good Standiaf 



RESOLVED, that the term "member- 

 ship in good standing" or any similar 

 term in its application to qualification 

 for representation or for rights and privi- 

 leges of the Association of any County 

 Farm Bureau or of the subsidiary and 

 affiliated organizations thereof be de- 

 fined as follows: 



"Membership in good standing means 

 membership fre from dues delinquency 

 and not otherwise terminated, cancelled 

 or in default on the date as to which the 

 question of good standing is determined. 

 Membership shall be deemed free from 

 dues delinquency if the annual dues have 

 been paid in cash in advance or within 

 the first thirty-one (31) days of the 



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