EIGHTH ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE 



Mr. Macklin: My intention when I 

 made the motion was that we would 

 all put up twenty-five cents in addi- 

 tion to what we pay to the Northwest- 

 ern Association, but I don't say so, 

 although that was my intention. 



Mr. Baxter: I want you to under- 

 stand that I don't want to belong to 

 the State Association twice. I be- 

 long to it, anyway, and don't want to 

 join through the Northwestern. 



Mt. Kimmey: About this time, and 

 as is often the case, I am a little mud- 

 dled. Dr. Miller has said I would 

 make money by joining, and Mr. Moore 

 said I would lose money by joining. I 

 would like to sit down and think it 

 over a while. Does the motion include 

 the twenty-five cents extra? 



Mr. Macklin: With the consent of 

 my second. 



Mr. Wilcox: Yes; twenty-five cents 

 extra. 



President York: This motion carries 

 with it an extra fee of twenty-five 

 cents, so that the d'ues will be really 

 $1.25 — this Association fifty cents, the 

 National fifty cents, and the State 

 Association twenty-five cents. 



Mr. Winter: Is that every year, or 

 just this year? 



President York: Just one year at 

 a time. 



Mr. Kimmey: Have we any consti- 

 tution and by-laws? 



President York: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Winter: Does the constitution 

 fix the yearly dues? 



President York: This has nothing 

 to do with the dues. 



Mr. Kimmey: I pa:id a dollar. If I 

 refuse to pay the extra twenty-five 

 cents, where am I? 



President York: We will put you 

 out! [Laughter]. 



Mr. Kimmey: You can not do it; I 

 don't know, it strikes me as if w^e had 

 better not get into this muddle. 



Mr. Moore: The dues were fifty 

 cents to start with, and they were 

 amended to make it $1.00. 



Mr. Kimmey: It should be an 

 a;mendment to the constitution. It 

 cannot be done this way. 



Mr. Smith: You say your finances 

 would not reach $15.00? 



Mr. Mcore: We were ten cents in 

 the hole 'v:p to today,. 



Mr. Smith: What have you done 

 with the revenue you took in today? 



President York: We have that here. 



Mr. Smith: How much was taken 

 in today? 



Mr. Moore: $32.00. 



Mr. Dadant: Mr. Smith, what are 

 the annual dues to the State Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association? 



Mr. Smith: The annual dues are 

 $1.00, and half of it goes to the "Na- 

 tional." 



Mr. Kimmey: Am I not a member? 

 I hand you a -dollar. I am a member 

 of the State Bee-Keepers' Association. 

 The dollar includes my membership 

 in the "National." You take that dol- 

 lar and enroll me in the Illinois State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association. What ap- 

 propriation do you get from the State 

 of Illinois? 



Mr. Smith: The appropriation has 

 been $1,000.00 a year. 



Mr. Kimmey: Do you make any re- 

 port of what you do with that money? 



Mr. Smith: There is a report made 

 to the Secretary of State and to the 

 Association. 



Mr. Kimmey: I have belonged to 

 associations of that kind, and I was 

 not satisfied with what they did with 

 the /money. It seems to me that a 

 thousand dollars is a small amount of 

 money, and you will be looking for 

 money, instead of spending it. It 

 seems to me there is no question but 

 that we should join the State Associa- 

 tion in a body, and if anybody is like 

 Kimmey and w-ants to pay a dollar 

 outside and pay it for the good of the 

 cause, let him do it. Let us go ahead 

 and join this Association, even though 

 we may come short in this institution. 

 I think there ought to be seventy peo- 

 ple in this room 'R^ho will pay their 

 dues and give Mr. Moore the $70.00 he 

 requires. It will take $35.00 to join 

 the National, and there will still be 

 enough to run this Association after 

 we have done it. I don't think there 

 should be any hesitation about pass- 

 ing this motion. 



Mr. Baxter: The motion isn't a 

 dollar, but $1.25. This brother and I 

 have paid that dollar to the State As- 

 sociation for membership, and now 

 they are going to take us in again 

 on the cheap plan of twenty-five cents. 



President York: Whoever is a mem- 

 ber we would not need to pay twenty- 



