I^o ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



do. I told him I didn't really know myself. It seemed that all the time 

 we had been endeavoring to pass this bill that we had been stopped at 

 every stage of the game, and it seemed now, at this present moment, 

 as though this was the only legislation we would be likely to get, and. 

 thought v/e had better perhaps take this than not have any at all. He: 

 concurred in my judgment, and though it was not satisfactory, we took 

 it. We took that bill and passed it through the senate from stage to- 

 stage until reported to the house. It went over to the house, and after 

 it reached there, it was put upon the calendar or order on second read- 

 ing, wherein subject to amendment is in order. 



Fuller of your district desirsid to amend the bill by striking out after 

 the enactment clause and substituting his bill, which was a copy of the- 

 Ohio law. Mr. Knight had a bill he had prepared and opposed this^ 

 course. He said instead of doing that, we will take this, Bj shorter bill,, 

 and can get it through surely better than the other, and in all probability^ 

 with lesser difficulty in getting it through the senate. So the bill pre- 

 pared by Mr. Knight was substituted for the senate bill, by striking out 

 all after the enactment clause. It passed the house, and after the hardest- 

 fight we ever had in that body during the time I Vv^as there, we passed it.. 

 The governor affixed his signature and it became the law of the State ot 

 Illinois. 



My point is, that I do not know whether the law, which has beem 

 held unconstitutionel by two of three judges, if it had been enacted as it 

 was first had in the house, I mean the very same bill, the identical bill,, 

 that we tried first to pass, I believe as I stand here and not being a law- 

 yer, it never would have been declared unconstitutional by the courts of 

 Cook county. I believe if they had enacted the law of the State of Ohio,, 

 or rather I think it was the State of Massachusetts, it would not have- 

 been declared unconstitutional Dy the courts, but we enacted this substi- 

 tute law. 



I am as strong a friend as ever of the dairymen of Illinois, and have 

 always stood for the dairymen, ar>d no man who knows me and my career, 

 or who kuews my course or work, will challenge my statement uponi 



