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would pay to the stenographer to have 

 the report all typewritten. I would sug- 

 gest, if it meets the approval of the 

 meeting, that we allow the stenog- 

 rapher to embody everything in the re- 

 port, putting it all in typewritten shape. 



Pres. Dadant — I think it is a mistake 

 to have the essays taken in shorthand, 

 when they are already written; a copy 

 of them can be made so that they will 

 appear in the report, typewritten. 



Mr. Stone — Let her be allowed to em- 

 body everything in the report. 



Mr. Moore — I would suggest that we 

 have a few minutes recess to shake 

 hands with those who have come in, 

 and with each other. 



(Recess of ten minutes.) 



(Convention convened.) 



Pres. Dadant — Mr. Stone asks: 

 "What shall I do when a man sends 

 me $1.00 for membership fee, instead of 

 $1.50? 



Mr. Stone — I got a letter yesterday 

 from W. "W. Bishop, of Virginia, Illi- 

 nois, saying that he could not Ise here; 

 his dollar was enclosed for membership 

 in the Association. I would like to 

 know what to do with that one dollar. 

 I credit the member with one dollar, 

 and write to him and say: "Do yTpu 

 want to be a member of the National 

 also? If you do, the National will give 

 you a subscription to the Bee-Keepers* 

 Review in addition to your member- 

 ship.'" I explain to them that, if this 

 is what they want, they will have to , 

 send in an additional fifty cents, and 

 I do not get an answer. I leave that 

 $1.00 credited to the Illinois State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association; if there is any 

 better way to do it I would like to know 

 what it is. 



Mr. Moore — Mr. President, my under- 

 standing was that this Illinois State As- 

 sociation is a branch of the National; 

 the only way a man can become a 

 member of this was by paying $1.50 for 

 membership in the two Associations. 



We are not authorized to accept 

 membership in the Illinois State As- 

 sociation alone; this is my understand- 

 ing of it. 



Mr. Stone — Who made that that 

 way? 



Mr, Moore — ^We did when we votQd 

 to become members of the National 

 Association. We are ,not a distinctive 

 Association; we are a Isranch of the 



National as I understand it under the 

 action taken one year ago. 



Pres. Dadant — Allow me to correct 

 that. 



Mr. Moore — Then, Mr. Stone pen- 

 tioned that he was writing to menibers, 

 that by sending fifty cents extra they 

 could get the Bee-Keepers' Review. 

 They don't get that unless they send 

 their $1.50 subscription. 



Mr. Stone — Tijey have already sent 

 one dollar, and fifty cents more makes 

 the $1.50 and gives them a membership 

 and the Review. 



Mr. Moore — Get the Review also? 



L. C. Dadant — Yes, they do. 



Mr. Stone-^They pay $1.00 for the 

 Review and get a membership in the 

 National 



Mr. Moore — I don't understand it 

 that way. I know that I have been a 

 member of the National for years, and 

 my subscription ran out this last year. 

 My membership was in the National 

 at the time and they sent me a notice 

 of having to have $1.00, and a letter of 

 explanation, that, under the rules -of 

 the post office department, they could 

 not send the Review otherwise. 



L. C. Dadant — Not unless you pay 

 your subscription. 



Mr. Moore — My subscription was 

 paid ahead. 



Pres. Dadant — I happened to be on 

 the Committee that worded the 'Con- 

 stitution of the National. 



At that time I called the attention 

 of the other members of the Commit- 

 tee, framing the new Constitution, to 

 the fact that the Illinois State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association was and is su- 

 preme in Illinois; that it must be su- 

 preme — that is — it has nothing above 

 it if it is to be a State Association, 

 chartered by the State and supported 

 by the State; it can not be a branch 

 of anything, but it can join the 

 National Association and still remain 

 supreme, and under no jurisdiction 

 whatsoever except that of the State 

 Government — so that I believe that we 

 can accept menibers, as members of this 

 Association and not of the National; 

 they can join the Illinois State Associa- 

 tion and not join the National. 



The Missouri State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, this summer, at which con- 

 vention I was present, did make a rul- 

 ing that a bee-keeper could be a mem- , 

 ber of the Missouri State Association 



