ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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President Baxter — You cannot pay 

 your dues when you think it is going 

 to be out of existence and pay them 

 before the vote is taken so as to keep 

 in; you have to wait until your time 

 has expired before you pay your 

 money for a continuance and that 

 does not expire until we adjourn. 



,Mr. Bowen — Thinking so does not 

 make it so; you antifcipated what 

 might happen; suppose it turned the 

 other direction, then what? 



Mr. Stone — We used to pay $1.00 for 

 membership in the National and in 

 the State; when we were affiliated 

 with the National we paid them 50 

 cents and we kept 50 cents, and in 

 our Convention w^e took advantage, 

 just exactly as paying the $2.00 now 

 would be, before this was settled; we 

 took advantage of membership in the 

 National for one year ahead when they 

 had changed their ruling to $1.50 and 

 the President didn't rule us out — why 

 not do the same in this instance? 



Mr. Hawkins — As I understand par- 

 liamentary law, the President has a 

 right to make a ruling now and that 

 ruling stands. 



President Baxter — That is not ex- 

 actly the parliamentary law; the par- 

 liamentary law is that the President 

 is your Executive; he passes on all 

 rulings and his ruling is absolute law 

 unless he is repudiated by a majority 

 of the members ; all you have to do 

 is to vote his ruling down if you do 

 not want to sustain him. 



Mr. Dadant — This is not a matter of 

 Constitution and By-Laws, but is 

 simply passed upon at each meeting; 

 this would make our President right. 



Let me read to you from our Con- 

 stitution: f 



"Any person interested in Apicul- 

 ture may become a mfember upon the 

 payment to the Secretary of an annual 

 fee of one dollar ($1.00)." (Amendment 

 adopted at annual meeting, November, 

 1905). "And any affiliating Associa- 

 tion, as a body, may become members 

 on the payment of an aggregate fee of 

 fifty cents (50c) per member, as 

 amended Nov., 1910." 



We have to vote at each meeting as 

 to our affiliation with the National. I 

 think this will make our President 

 right. Whether we affiliate or not is 

 to be decided by vote and not by Con- 

 stitution. 



You must consider, as long as you 



have this Constitution and By-Laws, 

 you must figure that you pay $1.00 for 

 membership in this Association and, 

 if you belong to the Chicago -North- 

 western or the Eastern Illinois, you 

 pay $1.00 there. 



Their Secretary had the right on 

 the vote of that Association to make 

 them members of this by his paying 

 out of their treasury 50 cents per 

 member. 



Some of you may think — I will join 

 the Northwestern; very likely if you 

 join the Chicago -Northwestern they 

 will ask you $1.00; whether you are 

 a member of this or that makes no 

 difference because you have the re- 

 ports of both Associations. 



According to this decision, on which 

 our President insists, I believe the 

 only way out of the difficulty is for 

 the Secretary to return to the mem- 

 bers the excess that they have paid 

 to him and let them join the National 

 direct, since by your vote a little while 

 ago you voted not to affiliate with the 

 National. 



Mr. Kildow — Then the way it stands 

 we are only members of, the National 

 for a year at a time until we vote on 

 it. 



President Baxter — That is right. We 

 are only affiliated '^ year at a time. 

 We vote on it every year. 



Mr. Stone — Then the members that 

 have paid their $2.00 will have to have 

 $1.00 refunded to them, but they can 

 send it or not, as they like, to the 

 National for membership and for the 

 Review. 



Mr. Dadant — I move you to instruct 

 the Secretary to refund to those per- 

 sons who have paid more than $1.00 

 at this meeting the amount so paid 

 over $1.00. 



Motion seconded and carried. 



Mr. Hawkins^Why is it tb.at a 

 member of the, Chicago-Northwes- 

 tern can get merlibership for $1.00 for 

 both Conventions, while we pa5- $1.00 

 here and get only one? 



President Baxter — Didn't you hear 

 the explanation of Mr. Dadant? We 

 accept them at 50 cents, in getting 30 

 or 40 or 50 at a time we can get mem- 

 bership much quicker and easier. 



President Baxter — You can get the 

 proceedings from up there and can go 

 up there and deliberate with them and 

 have all the privileges except voting. 



