$62 THE GROUNBSWELL. 



cost of transportation has not yet been reduced to the extent that 

 effect has not yet been such as its friends contemplated; that the 

 was expected when the law was first passed ; but when the railroads 

 of the State are compelled to a strict observance of the same, it is 

 believed that favorable results will follow. Your committee repect- 

 fully represent, on the advisory portion of the resolution, that they 

 are not yet prepared to advise other States, but believe that the 

 people of the other States in the Union would be benefited by the 

 passage of a law similar to the law of Illinois, or a better one if 

 they can. 



It was moved that when the Convention adjourn, it be sine 

 die. Mr. Boone, of Jo Daviess County, 111., said they could 

 not afford to adjourn sine die. The producing classes sustain 

 the same relations in modern society as serfs did in the days 

 of history. This was to be considered as an agricultural 

 congress. He proposed an adjournment for one year, to the 

 same time and place. 



An adjournment, subject to the call of the President of 

 the Illinois State Farmers Association, was then proposed, 

 and adopted. 



