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iix the rest of the appropriation it looks 

 like we would be in the soup. It would 

 be well enough to have this Legisla- 

 tive Committee look after that. 



Mr. Hawkins — Why would it not be 

 a good idea, as long as the legislature 

 is in session and that question has been 

 brought up, for everybody, every mem- 

 ber of this Association who is here, to 

 write the members of that Board, or 

 the Chairman of that Board, as good a 

 letter as we can, and mail it to the 

 Board, favoring the re-appropriation of 

 that money? We might as well do a 

 little lobbying as well as all the other 

 associations in the State are doing. It 

 seems to me that a number of letters 

 <;oming in like that would make a good 

 impression. 



Mr. Dadant — I think it is important 

 for the Association to pass a resolution 

 and pass it unanimously if possible, 

 after the report of the Inspector, stat- 

 ing to the legislature that we insist 

 on this appropriation as necessary to 

 the success of bee culture in Illinois. I 

 believe, if we do that, it ought to do 

 more good than private letters, but of 

 course the private letters could be sent 

 also. 



President Baxter — That point is well 

 taken. Mr. Dadant, will you get up one 

 of those resolutions to present to the 

 Association this afternoon? 



Mr. Dadant — I think we should have 

 the report of the Inspector. 



Mr. Hawkins — I believe that a letter 

 would be even better than to person- 

 ally see those men. When they come 

 down here quite often it is a fact they 

 are very busy, and at a time when it 

 might be convenient for us to see them 

 it might be exceedingly inconvenient 

 for them to take the time; but a letter 

 would get to them when they are not 

 over crowded with business and their 

 minds would be a little more receptive 

 to meeting our demands. 



Dr. Baxter — With regard to letter 

 writing: I have been on three com- 

 mittees this last legislature. The aver- 

 age man pays no attention to a letter; 

 he has a great deal of mail from hun- 

 dreds of other people; and, if you 

 really want to get anything, the way 

 is to buttonhole your man and get his 

 promise; nail him right down and stay 

 with him; Avhile a letter might reach 

 a few men, it will not reach a great 

 majority of them. 



President Baxter — That has been my ', 

 experience; six years ago when we 

 first got this apropriation, if we had 

 not seen to it personally and nailed 

 our men right down, we would never 

 have gotten it. 



Mr. Stone — There is one matter that 

 I believe ought to be settled before 

 we go into the Question Box, and that 

 is in regard to our union with the Na- 

 tional; and that is a question of pretty 

 broad foundation. Our members want 

 to pay their fee, and we do not know 

 what to charge them until we settle 

 this matter of the National; we can 

 tell them $1 makes them a member of 

 the State Association and let them pay 

 that, but maybe they want to join the 

 National and get the Review. 



President Baxter — I would not be in 

 favor of settling that question now. 

 I want to thrash this out thoroughly 

 before we do anything, and I would 

 not want to do that before tomorrow 

 morning. Let them pay their $1 to 

 the State and if we decide to remain 

 affiliated and they want to pay their 

 S.50 they can and- if they want the , 

 Review they can pay their dollar; they 

 do not have to pay $2 to become a 

 member of the National and State So- 

 ciety, because it was unanimously de- 

 cided at the Convention at Denver that 

 $.50 would make one a member of the 

 National without the Review and $1 , 

 for a member of the National with the 

 Review. 



Mr. Stone — Is it so stated in their 

 report? 



President Baxter — I don't care what 

 their report says ; I know better than 

 the Secretary does what occurred; the 

 Minutes have been made up to suit 

 their own fancy. We will not have to 

 go by those Minutes. I have copies of 

 the report I took myself and I know 

 what should be in there and what 

 should not. 



I met with Mr. Williams and with 

 the Secretary, or the Assistant to the 

 Secretary, I forget his name, and with 

 Mr. Foster, in the hotel just previous 

 to leaving, after we had adjourned isine 

 die, and thQ;- Minutes were in such a 

 mess we could not make head nor tail 

 to them, but I had a copy of what had 

 passed, and we agreed on taking those, 

 and they were submitted to Mr. PeH^tt 

 and Mr. Phillips and several others who 

 took a verj' decidedly active part in the 

 proceedings, for verification, and they 



