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Board of Agriculture to appoint one. 

 I didn't want to ask him to appoint 

 any one political man. Democrat or 

 Republican. 



Mr. Smith: When we go before the 

 Legislature this winter again we want 

 to ask for the appropriation in a sep- 

 arate bill, so we separated them and 

 they have never refused it, but when it 

 comes to making a new political office 

 they oppose it. , 



Mr. Moore: I suppose it could; be 

 worded so the State Association could 

 appoint him. We have to have a man 

 that knows all about foul brood. I 

 should think he wbuld rather appoint 

 some one the State Association se- 

 lected. In framing our bill we must 

 be careful so it will be accepted and 

 at the same time to have the effect to 

 do the work. I mean that all politi- 

 cal influence is out of it. That is what 

 they oppose, the political part. Mr. 

 Stone, would you say it is so framed 

 it ought to be changed? 



Mr. Smith: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Stone: The Attorney General 

 framed it. 



Mr. Smith: They said, "We will 

 not vote for a bill that will give the 

 Governor any more political power. 

 The Chairman of the Senate told me 

 so. "I will not , pass it as it is at 

 present." 



Mr. Stone: When I put it in Heinl's 

 hands he said, "If it ain't in the hands 

 of the Governor to appoint we Avon't 

 pass it." 



The Attorney General framed it him- 

 self. He said, "You will have to have 

 the Governor appoint this man or he 

 will veto it every time. That other is 

 news to me." 



Mr. Smith: This I was told in the 

 committee room. 



Mr. Stone: Our bill passed the Sen- 

 ate and in the House was killed on 

 third reading, and only one majority 

 against it. I haven't the least doubt 

 of getting it through without a bit of 

 trouble. But we can't work too much. 

 If we will just go to our members, and 

 inform them as to the nature and dan- 

 ger of foul brood contagion they will 

 vote all right, but they want to know 

 that the law is wanted. And I don't 

 think they will vote us out another 

 time. We don't bring politics into it. 



Mr. Becker: I think both Mr. Stone 

 and Mr. Smith are right. I was one 

 of the committee. There is an ele- 



ment in our Legislature that is op- 

 posed to giving the Governor any more 

 power than at the present time, and 

 that element this time is stronger 

 than ever. The politics made so much 

 fight on the Governor they won't give 

 him any more power than he has, and 

 there is an element in the Legislature 

 that will cut down all they can. Of 

 course, there is another element; they 

 say, go ahead. I see in this morning's 

 paper one concern's busted. 



Mr. Pyle: If everybody will do as I 

 did, not holding myself as an example, 

 but wrote to the lower house and Sen- 

 ate and asked them for the passage. 

 The two men of the lower house. Car- 

 rick and Ireland, and they both wrote 

 back. Mr. Carrick wrote back and said, 

 "I am a bee-keeper myself and a far- 

 mer," and Mr. Ireland wrote and said he 

 would do all he could. And I ask that 

 every person is a committee of one 

 and write to each one of his repre- 

 sentatives, and it will pass without a 

 word. 



Mr. Kildow: For a while I lived in 

 the same district with a Representa- 

 tive. I wrote to the man in the dis- 

 trict of your county. I was personally 

 acquainted with the Representative 

 and the man in the Senate. 



This fall I met one of the representa- 

 tives and I talked to him, and he as- 

 sured me this; he said, "I don't know 

 a thing about it, but I know what you 

 know is a fact, and I will have better 

 grounds to talk on, and I will do all I 

 can," and I think if everybody will go 

 ahead and do as Brother Pyle and I 

 did we will be only this winter getting 

 our foul brood law. 



Holekamp: There . is nothing better 

 than to do that, and then send five 

 thousand letters the day this bill is 

 brought up. 



When I got to Jefferson Citj^ there 

 was a whole stack of letters. 



Mr. Becker: Last session, you re- 

 member, a certain bee-keeper in the 

 north part of Illinois wrote to Senator 

 Dunlap, but when we told him what 

 a kicker the man was, and that he 

 had yarned, he didn't pay any atten- 

 tion to the letter. 



What is necessary is that the Bee- 

 Keepers work together and see their 

 Representative and tell what it is. 



This man Inslee spent this last spring 

 fifty (50) dollars stamping out foul 

 brood out of his bees. He said, "I 

 am clear of it now." 



