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claims to be a dairy expert. There are enough dairy experts 

 in the state, and 1 want to inform Air. Jones that that is a sore 

 point to the dairymen all over the state. I do not see the good 

 of asking for the appointment of two dairymen if the law we 

 have is not observed. 



Air. Jones: — With your permission, I would like to say 

 that is the reason I propose to draft a law in the manner I 

 referred to. It i left optional with the governor. You under- 

 stand, of course, gentlemen, that the state food commissioner 

 does not make these appointments as a general thing. It is 

 -done by the governor, and the state food commissioner appoints 

 the men he suggests. When Governor Tanner was elected we 

 had Air. Alonrad. I knew the governor quite well, we had 

 grown up together. He appointed me and said: "Go ahead 

 and select those you want." But Governor Yates did not know 

 me quite so well as Governor Tanner, and when he was elected 

 he had a few whom he wanted appointed. As your worthy 

 president has said. Air. Patterson is an efficient man, but if this 

 law is drafted as it is in the state pharmacists' law, that their 

 names be suggested by you at your convention, or by a com- 

 mittee appointed for that purpose, then the Governor will appoint 

 the inspectors from the names you submit, as you will see by 

 reading the pharmacist act. 



That is how I propose to obviate this error. I have talked 

 with a number of your dairymen as to how it could be done, 

 especially with Air. Willson, of Elgin, the editor of one of your 

 papers, how it could be arranged so there would be no question 

 but an expert dairyman would be appointed. Do not leave it 

 optional with the Governor or Commissioner, but put it into a 

 law : make it plain that the names of the inspectors shall be 

 selected by your department and that the Governor shall take 

 the names from the list selected. 



The President : — Does that not take the appointing power 

 away from the Governor? 



Air. Jones: — Xo, I was going to fix the number at ten. 



