ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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five cents for. The Secretary can find 

 out who already are members and 

 pay only for those who are not mem- 

 bers. 



Dr. Miller: I think the motion to 

 make the dues $1.25 in contravention 

 to the constitution is wrong. If your 

 constitution says a dollar, leave it a 

 dollar. Don't sa,y twenty-five cents 

 for joining the State Association. What 

 is your warrant for levying it? 



Mr. Wheeler: Didn't Mr. Moore say 

 that he worked for the last year with- 

 out compensation? 



Mr. Moore: Out of eleven years I 

 have worked seven free. 



Mr. Wheeler: I thought each year 

 we voted for Mr. Moore to be com- 

 pensated. 



Mr. Moore: After I had worked 

 seven years I was voted a compensa- 

 tion for one year. 



Dr. Miller: I think we ought to 

 avoid what seems unconstitutional. It 

 seems to me that practically we are 

 changing from $1.00 to $1.25. If I 

 understand Mr. Kimmey, his idea is 

 this — if I misinterpret him let him 

 speak for himself, he is of age: If 

 we pay up as we should there will be 

 no trouble. If every one who attends 

 here pays in his dollar — do I under- 

 stand you correctly, that if every one 

 pays in his dollar who attends here 

 there will be no trouble on the finan- 

 cial question? 



• Mr. Moore: I don't agree. 



Dr. Miller: If there is a possibility 

 of getting through this thing and 

 leaving that dollar stand where it 

 was we ought to do it that way. I 

 might be forced into paying an extra 

 twenty-five cents if you insist, but I 

 would like to get through and really 

 not pay more than a dollar, and if we 

 can do it that way and get more in, I 

 would like to do it. 



Mr. Moore: Last year we got in 

 $56.00. Suppose we get in $60.00. 

 Thirty dollars goes to the National, 

 $15.00 goes to the State, leaving $15.00 

 for the year's expenses, which is $5.00 

 less than we have to pay for this room 

 for two days. Suppose you run it up 

 to $80.00 — that leaves $20.00 for this 

 room, and not one cent for postage 

 and other expenses for the year. 



Dr. Miller: How much would that 

 leave us in the hole? 



Mr. Moore: Tear before last we 

 took in $79.00; last year, $56.00. At 



.00 you pay out $60.00 to these two 

 associations, leaving us $20.00, which is 

 what we pay for this room for two 

 days, and leaves us nothing for the 

 year's expenses and for postage, which 

 would be $5.00 or $10.00 for the year. 



Dr. Miller: About how much in the 

 hole? 



Mr. Moore: Twenty dollars would 

 cover that. If we were assured of 

 that we would feel pretty safe. 



Dr. Miller: What is the biggest 

 thing we would be in the hole if we 

 stick to the dollar? 



Mr. Moore: We have got to jump 

 from $56.00 to $79.00. If we get $80.00 

 we would still be plenty in the hole. 

 We are about $25.0j0 or $30.00 in the 

 hole on the year's expenses. That don't 

 count my compensation anything. 



Dr. Miller: Now, Mr. President, that 

 twenty-five cents I don't believe in 

 being forced to pay. A dollar I have 

 paid, and I am willing to stand by 

 that, and I don't want to pay a cent 

 more in that way. I believe there is 

 a mistake in these figures, and believe 

 they will come out better than they 

 look. If you will let me off without 

 paying that twenty-five cents I am 

 ready to pony up to $30.00 to get us 

 out of the hole. I won't pay you that 

 twenty-five cents! 



Mr. Whitney: Is there any consti- 

 tutional objection to individual mem- 

 bers of this Association donating twen- 

 ty-five cents if they want to? It seems 

 to me that we can make up the twen- 

 ty-five cents or the amount necessary 

 to join. 



President York: If this Association 

 wants to vote twenty-five cents a 

 member and pay it out of the treas- 

 ury they can do it, constitution or no 

 constitution. 



Mr. Whitney: To accommodate Dr. 

 Miller I was going to suggest that we 

 join the State Association and recom- 

 mend that every member pay his 

 twenty-five cents ,and those that don't 

 we will pay for out of the treasury, 

 and not force anybody to pay it. The 

 motion should be changed to join in 

 a body at twenty-five cents. 



Mr. Kimmey: I move that the Sec- 

 retary be instructed to notify the mem- 

 bers next year, thirty days before the 

 anniml meeting, of the proposed change 

 in the constitution, making the annual 

 dues $1.25 instead of $1.00. 



Motion was seconded, put and carried. 



