ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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Review — why we should be notified 

 that we should send in fifty cents more. 

 I paid $2.00 last year for membership 

 here and in the National and for the 

 Review, whereas the rest of you were 

 getting it for one dollar and a half. 



Mr. Stone — Because you sent your 

 fee before they had adopted the plan 

 for the Review that they now have. 



If you send one dollar for member- 

 ship for 1913, even though it be before 

 ■ he first of September, they will give 

 you a year's credit; I am marked 

 down, $1.00 for 1913. Now I have to 

 put^ down my fifty cents for this (Illi- 

 nois) Association; and I will have 

 paid one dollar and a half next year, 

 for both. "^ 



Mr. Baxter — If the Review is the 

 organ of the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association — why should not every 

 member be entitled to a copy of it? 



Many members have paid for several 

 years in advance. 



Why are they not entitled to credit 

 on the books and why should they be 

 asiced for additional funds? I seems 

 to me there is something wrong in 

 t>:at National Association. 



Pres. Dadant — I believe we are mak- 

 ing a mistake in discussing this mat- 

 ter until Mr. Tyrrell has come; the 

 question Mr. Baxter has asked, we are 

 not able to answer. 



Mr. Vaughn — I make a motion that 

 this matter of the National be laid over 

 until the Secretary of the National is 

 here. 



Motion seconded and carried. 

 Mr. Becker — I have been on the 

 Executive Committee for years. We 

 went to the Governor — before the dif- 

 ferent LfCgislatures; we thought, at one 

 time, that we had the matter pretty 

 well settled and that we would get a 

 foul brood law passed, but we never 

 did succeed in getting it until Gov- 

 ernor Deneen took a hand in the mat- 

 ter, himself. 



You know what he did a couple of 

 years ago. I was there when he called 

 the attorney general in to the office 

 and had him write out a new Bill; and 

 it was only a short time before the 

 legislature would adjourn; he in- 

 structed his clerk to get the Chairman 

 of both Committees from the House 

 and Senate to a conference and secured 

 our Bills. 



I would move you, that the Chair- 

 man appoint a committee of five, with 



himself as chairman of the delegation, 

 to call on the Governor, or his repre- 

 sentative if he is not there himself, 

 thanking him for the efforts he has 

 made in behalf of the Bee-Keepers of 

 the State of Illinois. 



Motion seconded; 



Mr. Vaughn — I would like to make 

 an amendment to that motion. Why 

 cannot a letter of thanks be sent him? 

 That would be inexpensive and would 

 probably be appreciated just as well 

 as to have a committee of four wait 

 on him. 



Mr. Kildow — Is there any need of 

 that now? Did we not send the Gov- 

 ernor a letter of thanks last year? 



Pres. Dadant — The Governor is a 

 very busy man. He can run over a 

 letter easier than he can admit a dele- 

 gation. It would look to me as though 

 a letter from this Association, signed 

 by the Secretary, would be sufficient. 



L. C. Dadant — ^We wrote him a letter 

 last year. There is no use in repeating 

 it as far as I can see; unless some- 

 thing can be gained by calling on him 

 I think we had better let the matter 

 drop. 



Pres. Dadant — The motion is to ap- 

 point a committee of five to go and 

 present our thanks to the Governor 

 of the State for what he did for us 

 last year. 



Mi*. Baxter — I am very much in favor 

 of Mr. Becker's motion. I am not in 

 favor of sending a letter. I would 

 like to have that committee go and see 

 him today or tomorrow. I think we 

 feel that we are under obligations to 

 him. I would like to assure him of my 

 support, and to .do all I can for his 

 re-election, in my district. 



I would like to tell the bee-keepers 

 right here, if it had not been for a 

 representative, Mr. B. N. Chiperfleld, 

 we would never have gotten that foul 

 brood law, and I think that, while we 

 are thanking the Governor, we owe a 

 great deal to Mr. Chiperfield; he is a 

 man of great ability and can do 

 things. 



Mr. Stone — I don't believe Mr. 

 Becker or Mr. Baxter have said all 

 that they should have said. 



Mr. Ohiperfleld was one of the great 

 causes of getting Mr. Shanahan fav- 

 orable to it. - • 



But the governor was wholly respons- 

 ible for that Bill — for our getting it 

 through. He said to Mr. Shanahan and 



