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Mr. Wheeler — ^What I was getting at was, we want rep- 

 resentative bee-keepers on this committee; we want people 

 interested, and that have thousands of dollars invested. 



Dr. Miller — I have more bees than Mr. Moore and I 

 don't believe that I could influence Mr. Austin as much as 

 he has done. A man may represent a body of people with- 

 out himself being one of those people. Possibly it would 

 have its weight; at the same time if he can present the 

 thing the right way that is more than to say he has the 

 bees. 



Mr. Colburn — A man has a thousand colonies of bees 

 and he goes to our Legislature and he says, I want this and 

 that, and the fellows say, you are selfish. If I have but 

 very few bees and I go there for somebody else it will be 

 two to one I will get what I ask. 



Secretary Heeman F. Moobe. 



Mr. Whitney — My experience with politicians is that 

 the man who has some influence in the community is the 

 man who will get some help from the Legislature, not the 

 man who may possess perhaps a thousand colonies of bees, 

 or any other interest that he may represent. I know in- 

 dividuals who haven't a single colony of bees that I think 

 would make good committeemen for that very purpose. It 

 seems to me the point is well taken. 



Mr. Becker — On behalf of Mr. Moore I will say that 

 he is the right man in the right place. I have had some 

 experience with Mr. Moore in the Legislature. Mr. Smith 

 and I were before the Legislature when they tried to get 

 our law passed and I know what efforts Mr. Moore made 

 in that direction, and we never left until we had the guar- 

 antee that the law would be passed, as far as the Committee 

 on Appropriations goes. We couldn't wait until the House 

 debated on it and the Senate, but we had the promise of the 

 Committee ; and they passed it in the House and in the Sen- 

 ate before they left, 



