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make that change in the Constitution. 



Mr. Taylor — I move that to that mo- 

 tion this be added: "Except those 

 who have already paid their member- 

 ship in the National; those that have 

 to pay $1.00." 



Pres. York — ^Does the mover of the 

 motion accept the addition? He does. 

 This will be made a part of the mo- 

 tion: "Except those who have already 

 paid their membership in the National 

 — they should pay but $1.00." The 

 motion to read as given, with this ad- 

 dition: "Dues to be $1.50, excepting 

 to those who ar« already members of 

 the National, an<J such will pay $1.00 

 a year." 



Mr. Dadant — When you join the 

 National Association, does not this As- 

 sociation have to join in a body? 



Pres. York — If they are members 

 already, they could not join twice. 



Mr. Hoffman — As I understand it, 

 each and every Association — all of its 

 members — have to go in as a body, no 

 matter where they belong; that is the 

 way we do it in Wisconsin; if we don't 

 put all the names in you are not en- 

 titled to become a member for 50 

 cents ; if you are going to cut out these 

 few — won't that make a break? 



Mr. York — ^I think not, if you have 

 already joined. 



A Member — ^I believe that half of the 

 members gathered here belong to some 

 State Association, and this Chicago- 

 Northwestern is only an auxiliary; 

 that is what- I think. Most of the 

 members belong to a State Association 

 and they join the National with the 

 State Association as a body; we could 

 find that out. 



Pres. York — 'How many now present 

 are members of the National, and have 

 their dues paid in advance — raise your 

 hands. About one -third, I think. 



Dr. Miller — ^Would that not take , 

 them all in if they joined this society? 



Mr. Smith — ^I don't know how I got 

 Into this Association, by joining the 

 National, or whether I got into the 

 National by joining this. I gave our 

 worthy President the money — ^just how 

 he manipulated it I am not informed. 

 Do we allow other Associations to 

 come in in a body by paying certain 

 money? 



Pres. York — This Association joins 

 the National In a body. 



Dr. Miller — ^I think that would .be 

 earring out the spirit of the matter. I 



don't believe the National would make 

 any objection to that. I think it is 

 really a desirable thing for a man, 

 when it is convenient for him, to be- 

 long to more than one State Associa- 

 tion; if he does so it seems to me it is 

 a desirable thing to make him an ex- 

 ception; I don't believe the National 

 would object to that. 



Pres. York then put the motion, 

 which wasi carried unanimously. 



Pres. York — I think, perhaps, the 

 next matter we would better settle is 

 about joining the Illinois State Asso- 

 ciation in a body. 1 will entertain a 

 motion on that, so that this matter 

 can all be settled at one time. We 

 must join in a body if we expect our 

 report to be published. By joining the 

 Illinois State as an affiliating asso- 

 ciation, they will pay for our short- 

 hand report and publish it, and we will 

 all get a copy. 



Mr. Macklin — ^The same question 

 arises there. What about the Wis- 

 consin members? If they pay us $1.00, 

 30 cents of that will go to the State 

 anyway. 



Dr. Miller — Can you tell us, Mr. 

 President, what we get for that? Can 

 you give us some idea what that re- 

 port would cost us? 



Pres. York — Our report last year 

 cost between $80.00 and $90.00; it was 

 over 200 pages of typewritten manu- 

 script, and we paid State Association 

 about $20.00 as dues when affiliating. 



Mr. Macklin — ^I move we join the 

 State Association in a body. 



iMotion seconded, and then put, 

 which was carried unanimously. 



Pres. York — ^Now the report of the 

 last meeting, will you have it read — 

 the Secretary's report? It may refresh 

 our memory somewhat if the Secre- 

 tary would read this report. 



On motion the reading of the minutes 

 of the last meeting was dispensed 

 with. 



Pres. York — ^I would like to ask how 

 many here that were requested to fur- 

 nish papers have them. I think there 

 were a>bout a dozen that were written 

 to, and nearly all responded, consent- 

 ing to write the papers, but I believe 

 scarcely any of them are here at the 

 opening of this session, I will appoint 

 Mr. Macklin to distribute the question 

 blanks. For a number of years this 

 society had no program — everything 

 was given up to the discussion of ques- 



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