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can take the Illinois members of the 

 Chicago Northwestern Association as 

 a body. 



Mr. York: Suppose there is a Bee- 

 Keepers' Association in Illinois, you 

 want to take in all the members? 

 Suppose you had a Sangamon County 

 Association, only want to take in 

 part ? 



Dr. Miller: Yes, sir; if there are part 

 living in Michigan, take them in. 



Mr. President: I think there would 

 be no objection to receiving any Illi- 

 nois bee-keepers that want to come in. 



Mr. York: No, sir. 



Mr. Pyle: Would our constitution 

 allow it? That is the reason I made 

 the motion to amend the constitution. 



Mr. President: Can we amend the 

 constitution by a motion? I think it 

 requires a resolution. 



Mr. Stone: Mr. President, I don't 

 think it needs it. You can't amend it 

 unless you announce it at a previous 

 meeting and then vote on it the next 

 year, 



Mr. President: We will fix that at 

 the Chicago meeting. If they want to 

 come in we will take them. 



Mr. York: Mr. President, there are 

 so few people outside of the State 

 that belong to the Chicago Northwest- 

 ern Association. It seems to me if the ' 

 thing is properly done, if President 

 Smith can be present we can arrange 

 it so we will have a larger member- 

 ship than any other year. 



Mr. Stone: Mr. President, there is 

 one thing I want to say and impress 

 it on our delegate to the Northwestern. 

 Dr. Miller said this morning that there 

 was some complaint on account of the 

 invitation of our society to the Chi- 

 cago Northwestern. That we didn't di- 

 vide up with them any of the State ap- 

 propriation. The State appropriation is 

 given to publish this report and run our 

 Bee-Keepers' State Convention, etc., 

 etc. Other societies of the State, hor- 

 ticulturists, etc., go to other affiliated 

 societies and ask if they will allow 

 them to have their report published 

 with the State report. If they will 

 bear the expense of the proceedings, 

 then they are all published together. 

 Now this State law will allow us to 

 do that same thing, and go to the Chi- 

 cago Northwestern and say to them, 

 if Mr. York or some one else isn't 

 going to pay for the proceedings, the 

 stenographer, we will go there and 

 pay that stenographer and give them 



the report of their meeting in our an- 

 nual report. They get just as much 

 benefit if that is done as the State 

 Association does. Mr. York paid for 

 the shorthand report of the Chicago 

 Northwestern several times because he 

 wanted to publish it, then we go to 

 Mr. York and he charges what he can 

 afford for publishing our report. He 

 gets his pay that way for the short- 

 hand report. Last year we had our 

 report published in Springfield. Then 

 we send to Chicago and buy it of Mr. 

 York, Isn't that the same thing? They 

 receive the benefit of our report. 



Mr. President: You want to impress 

 that on them, that they are sharing 

 in it as much as our Association is. 

 We aren't allowed to stick our hands 

 in that treasury. Our Secretary and 

 Treasurer get their pay out of the 

 dues to the Association. We are not 

 allowed a cent out of that appropria- 

 tion, that is a thing they must un- 

 derstand. 



Mr. York: Mr. President, that thing 

 wasn't touched on before. I thought 

 this year we wouldn't have a reporter, 

 and I don't see why that wouldn't 

 be legitimate and proper for you to 

 pay for the stenographer, and I think 

 our Association will go in as a body. 

 You will get every vote out of the 

 Chicago Northwestern. 



I don't have room in the American 

 Bee Journal to publish it, but in your 

 report you have. In that Association 

 we have leading bee-keepers from sev- 

 eral States. We have a great meet- 

 ing. 



Dr. Miller: You are getting at it. In 

 that meeting some of us tried to get 

 it under the wing of the State Asso- 

 ciation. Some members said what in- 

 terest have we, we have not an Illi- 

 nois Association, what's in it for us? 

 we are not going to help this associa- 

 tion. Now, if we can say, you are 

 going to get something out of it, 

 they will. 



Mr. President: They will get their 

 own report with our annual report. 



Mr. Stone: Dr. Miller, you can 

 thank yourself for this. 



Dr. Miller: I want to say to you, 

 friends of this society, I think Mr.. 

 Smith knows personally more than 

 anyone else, that the death of the old 

 Northwestern was due to me. That 

 Northwestern Society was killed. Now 

 they have another society there and: 



