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TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



ties wish to send in their reports, we 

 will publish them. 



Mr. Roberts — I would like to ask a 

 question: There are several of the 

 members of the Eastern Illinois who 

 would like to join this State Society 

 but they don't want to he compelled 

 to become members of the National. 

 How shall we proceed to do it? 



Pres. Dadant — I believe that question 

 has been answered. 



Mr. Roberts — I went to Mr. Pierce, — 

 I said to him, "You might as well send 

 your dollar." He said — "They have 

 voted for a dollar and a half." I told 

 him, "Yes, but I would risk it if I were 

 you." "'No, I won't," he said, "you 

 find out when you get there if we can 

 get in for one dollar." 



Pres. Dadant — We voted yesterday to 

 accept them for one dollar. 



Mr. Stone — Our amendemnt to the 

 constitution was that v»e would accept 

 affiliated members for fifty cents. 



Pres. Dadant — That is an indirect 

 remittance; affiliated members coming 

 through a branch association. 



Mr. Tyrrell — We are already acting 

 on that same basis, you understand, 

 according to a resolution passed by the 

 directors. We are possibly stretching 

 the constitution, but we believe the 

 constitution is meant for the benefit of 

 the association, and starting out, If we 

 find that some things don't work out, 

 ii: will be well to make some resolution 

 covering that point until the next con- 

 vention convenes, when the matter can 

 be finally settled there. 



Mr. Stone — But the National has 

 been better to us than we have been to 

 them. If they send the National one 

 dollar and a half, we get fifty cents. 



Mr. Vaughn — Do I understand that 

 one dollar now enters you in both the 

 State and the National? ' 



Pres. Dadant — Let me state it again: 



According to the resolution passed 

 yesterday, the price to join our associa- 

 tion is one dollar, same as formerly. 

 When the National organized we de- 

 cided that we would make it one dollar 

 and a half and send one dollar to the 

 National; that would give us fifty- 

 cents. 



Yesterday the resolution was passed 

 in answer to a question asked by our 

 secretary, which was — "If a member 

 sends me one dollar for membership, 

 what shall I do with it?" 



Mr. Tyrrell now says: "We must 

 have you all as members of the Na- 



tional, and you will be accepted 

 whether you pay one dollar or not, but 

 those who do not pay the dollar will 

 not get the Review, which is the oflfi- 

 cial organ of the National." 



They may be members of the Na- 

 tional, but nothing will come to them. 



This is hardly legal, as it has not 

 been acted upon by the constitution; 

 but this will answer until it has been 

 further acted upon. 



I was one of the committee who 

 helped to form this constitution. Two 

 proposed new constitutions were 

 presented to us, and a committee was 

 appointed, and we took the old con- 

 stitution and those two new proposed 

 constitutions, and selected what we 

 thought best according to instructions 

 of the National at Minneapolis. 



"We only had from four o'clock in 

 the afternoon until nine the next morn- 

 ing. We worked six hours, and we 

 ought to have worked six days, on such 

 an important thing. Therefore it is 

 undoubtedly faulty. We are only mak- 

 ing a trial, and we may fail, but if we 

 make a trial, let us make it in good 

 faith. We have a right to accept either 

 one dollar or one dollar and a half, and 

 make our members satisfied as mem- 

 berg of this organization, and where 

 they pay the larger sum, they will get 

 all the benefits that the National can 

 give. 



Mr. Vaughn — I don't understand — 

 some pay one dollar and a half and 

 do not get the paper. 



Mr. Tyrrell — The trouble is, with the 

 postal authorities. 



We were obliged to protect the 

 second class rate. Now to those who 

 had paid in the. past, we cannot send 

 that paper, but just as fast as your 

 membership expires, we can. 



There are a whole, lot of Illinois 

 people whose membership expires in 

 December; if those people will pay 

 their dues for the year, to Mr. Stone, 

 we will send them tire Review 'from 

 this day clear through 1913. 



That will cover all the new mem- 

 bers. If you have paid your subscrip- 

 tion to the Bee -Keepers' Review for 

 the next year and are a member of this 

 Association, that is all you have to do. 

 If you have paid your subscription to 

 the Bee-Keepers' Review and have 

 paid your membership fee here, which 

 would be fifty cents, under those condi- 

 tions 3'ou are entitled to full National 



