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State Bee-Keepers' Association. 39 



Hon. J. M. Hambaugh, Spring, III., offered a resolution favoring the 

 union of the Northwestern Bee- Keepers' Association with the Illinois State 

 Association. 



But a substitute to the same was offered by S. N. Black, of Clayton, III., 

 which was adopted, as follows: 



Resolved, That the Illinois State Bee Keepers' Association endorse and 

 accept the action of the North vestern Bee-Keepers' Association, as to join- 

 ing this Association, and that the President is directed to call one meeting 

 each year in Chicago at such time as the Executive Committee may direct . 



The action of the Northwestern Bee-Keepers' Association at Chicago, 

 in its recent meeting, was as follows: 



"It was voted that the Northwestern be merged into the Illinois State 

 Association, provided, that the Illinois State Association will accept of the 

 Northwestern, and will agree to hold one meeting more, if necessary, every 

 year in Chicago. If the Illinois State Association accept these terms then 

 the election of officers of the Northwestern will be void." 



A resolution was adopted authorizing the Secretary, in behalf of the 

 Association, to invite all the bee-keepers' associations of the State to affiliate 

 with us. 



Resolution by C. E. Yocom, Sherman, 111.: 



Resolved, That the Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Association most earn- 

 estly protest against the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition on 

 the Sabbath. 



Resolved, That a committee (of one) be appointed to prepare a memorial 

 to be presented to the managers of the Word's Fair, and the State Board of 

 Agriculture on this subject. 



Committee — C . E . Yocom . 



Report of committee as follows : .^^ 



Whereas, It has been decided to hold in Chicago, in 1893, an Interna- 

 tional Exposition in commemoration of the discovery of America by Chris- 

 topher Columbus, and 



Whereas, The founders of our republic were men with implicit trust in 

 the living God, and her history is replete with the names of noble defenders 

 of her honor, who, like Washington, placed their dependance upon Almighty 

 God, and 



Whereas, The Sabbath day" is an institution of God, and in the history 

 of the world its proper observance has been proven to be a boon to 

 humanity, and in our national history it is a distinctive feature of its Christian 

 name, and 



Whereas, It is proposed to open the doors of the Columbian Exposi- 

 tion in 1893 upon the Sabbath, as on other days, and thus to bring the sin 

 of the Sabbath breaking upon the hitherto honorable record which our nation 

 has made in previous international expositions, and 



