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go to the next meeting of the Chicago 

 Northwestern at Chicago, which meets 

 Dec, 2 and 3. I think it is a good 

 thing to do that now than later; it 

 might be overlooked. 



Mr. Plye: Mr. President, I move the 

 chair appoint a delegate to that con- 

 vention. 



Mr. President: I don't like to take 

 that responsibility on myself. Per- 

 haps I might appoint someone that 

 would be favorable to all, and he might 

 not. We want someone with the abil- 

 ity. I would like the Association to 

 do that. 



Mr. York: Mr. Chairman, , I don't 

 want to talk too much or make too 

 many motions, but I think it would be 

 nice for this Association to elect its 

 President. I make a motion that Mr. 

 Smith be sent to this Chicago North- 

 western Convention. 



Mr. Stone: I second the motion. 



Mr. Kildow: The motion is that Mr. 

 Smith be elected the delegate to the 

 Chicago Northwestern Convention. 



Motion carried. 



Mr. President: I thank you for the 

 honor and I will endeavor to be there 

 and do all I can. 



Mr. York: Mr. Chairman, as Presi- 

 dent of the Chicago Northwestern Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, I extend a cor- 

 dial invitation for all members who 

 ■can to be there. 



Mr. President: I hope all who can 

 will be there. 



Mr. Stone: I want to make a mo- 

 tion. It will be remembered that we 

 changed our constitution four years 

 ago so as to take in all the societies 

 as a whole on the payment of twenty- 

 five cents per member. 



Now, I wish to make a motion, that 

 we extend this invitation to the Chi- 

 cago Northwestern as includes just 

 the members that are in this State; 

 they can't come in as a whole and 

 they don't want to come in that way. 

 As I said in my report, I have been 

 told that members of the Chicago 

 Northwestern who live in other States 

 ask, Why not affiliate with other as- 

 sociations in our State? That ques- 

 tion will come up again. I move our 

 delegate be instructed to offer them 

 that privilege just as to those living 

 in this State that want to come in as 

 a whole, that they will be permitted to 

 come in. It will be a step aside from the 

 constitution but we take in other socie- 

 ties that have had as low as six mem- 

 bers; I don't see anything wrong in 



this. I hope my motion will be sec- 

 onded. 



Mr. Pyle: It looks to me that there 

 ought to have been a motion to amend 

 that amendment of the constitution to 

 take in all the members of this State. 

 I will make the motion that way. 



Mr. President: Mr. Pyle, that 

 amendment was put and carried four 

 years ago that all members of other 

 associations that wanted to could come 

 in by paying twenty-five cents. 



Mr. Pyle: All the members of any 

 society residing in the State of Illi- 

 nois? 



Mr. President: I wouldn't object if 

 they were out of the State; the more 

 strength we get is by uniting the so- 

 cieties. 



Mr. Pyle: If the people of the Chi- 

 cago Northwestern that reside in the 

 State or any association or part of 

 one that reside in or out of the State 

 be allowed to come in, that would be 

 all right. 



Mr. Stone: Mr. President and Mr. 

 Pyle, I don't think that we need any 

 further amendment than we already 

 have. 



Here amendment was read. 



Mr. Lee: Can't States generally 

 have an own State Association? 



Mr. York: Mr. President, The Chi- 

 cago Northwestern is not an Illinois 

 association. It is made up of a num- 

 ber of States, so you wouldn't have 

 anything to do with any association not 

 distinctly an Illinois association. I 

 don't think you could amend your con- 

 stitution to take in the Chicago North- 

 western. It is not an Illinois associa- 

 tion. I don't think you can amend it 

 so as to take in the Chicago North- 

 western because it is an outside asso- 

 ciation. It is not an Illinois associa- 

 tion. 



Dr. Miller: Mr. President, as I un- 

 derstand this, the whole idea in the 

 first place was having a society ..com- 

 ing in as a whole, and now the only 

 thing we have in view to interpret is 

 this matter to apply to the Illinois 

 members of any society and consider 

 that the whole. The idea is that if a 

 society, any society comes in, and imys 

 twenty-five cents for each member of 

 the society, it comes in, there is 

 a little change in the interpretation to 

 apply to the Illinois residents. 



Mr. York: You don't want to divide 

 any association in Illinois. You don't 

 want to take a part of any association. 



Dr. Miller: That is it, exactly. You 



