50 FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT 



Mr. Coppin — It would pay us to stamp the disease out 

 if it took all the money in the treasury. 



Mr. Smiths — We have till next Julv to work on it. 



Mr. Coppin — After working till next July there will be 

 little money in the treasury. 



Mr. Stone — We ought to ask for a larger appropriation; 

 I don't believe there was a single session at the State House 

 during the Legislature that I attended, but what I was asked 

 by the members trying to get the Bill through if the Bill 

 cut in two would not be enough. We can not get along with 

 less than $1,000. After the bill went through we expected 

 the Governor would sign it by cutting it in two, as he did 

 so many others. They asked if the Editor of the American 

 Bee Journal was interested in getting that Bill through and 

 we said "Yes." We ought to have a committee on legisla- 

 tion, and have it both in the Chicago-Northwestern and in 

 the State Associations. We don't care how much the Chi- 

 cago-Northwestern gets; we believe they ought to have their 

 proportion, but we have to advance cautiously whenever we 

 find the money is not being spent rightly. If the Legislature 

 finds the money is not being spent wisely they will quit giving 

 it to us. 



Mr. Bowen — I am not supposed to know much about this 

 convention, but I would like to know what Mr. York means 

 by the Chicago-Northwestern Association and what territory 

 it includes. 



Mr. York — It includes Illinois and all the States around 

 it. 



Mr. Smith — In the last meeting of the Chicago-North- 

 western held in Chicago, there were members present from 

 seven States. 



Mr. BojjxJJ — Now if your money you speak of getting 

 from the^^Mj^^Legislature is controlled in part by the Chi- 

 cago-N(MJpRtem, does that not put it in the hands of other 

 States t^flSictatft how much should be used if that society 

 is composed 'O^*^ members from other States? I cannot see 

 where the benefit would be in dividing it up. 



Dr. Miller — The idea in Mr. York's mind' is that the Chi- 

 cago-Northwestern Association has done a lot of work, and 

 spent quite a good deal of money in order to get this Bill 

 passed — not that they ought to be paid for it, but that they 

 have done this, and feel that they ought to be recognized on 

 this ground aside from their bees.. 



Mr. Bowen — I am getting the run of it now. I want to 

 state that your law provides for two annual meetings, and 

 the expenses of meeting, but I don't know of a single penny 

 being paid out for any expenses of the meeting. Now as to 

 foul brood, if Northern Illinois has foul brood they are get- 

 ting more benefit out of the law than we are. We have not 

 got it in Central Illinois, but it is along the river counties. 



Dr. Miller — The inspector works in the Northern part of 

 the State. You don't have the disease in this part of the 

 country, and you are the ones that are getting the benefit 

 of those in the Northern part of the State. The idea is not 



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