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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
Mr. Hume: There is a motion ahead 
of yours* Mr. Prouty. You can make an 
amendment, but not a motion. 
Mr. Prouty: I make an amendment, 
then, that the whole matter be referred 
to the Committee on Legislation, and 
come up in its regular order. Have I 
a second to that amendment? That the 
whole matter be referred to the Commit¬ 
tee on Legislation, the same as other 
matters. We are entitled to know all 
about it. There is no reason why this 
thing should not be treated in the regu¬ 
lar way, and not sprung on us this way. 
Captain Rose: I hope that the amend¬ 
ment will not prevail. I am speaking of 
the amendment, and I have the floor. 
This matter has been thoroughly 
thrashed out before the present commit¬ 
tee. The bill has been ready; Mr. 
Prouty has had a copy of that bill. I 
brought them yesterday and announced 
that there were several hundred of those 
bills, and every man in the audience 
could get a copy. Mr. Prouty is thor¬ 
oughly conversant with the bill. The 
Legislative Committee desired to hear 
from this organization, and they adjourn¬ 
ed their session subject to your action. 
The matter has been discussed on these 
streets, pro and con, discussed before the 
Legislative Committee; the President 
this morning announced that he would 
introduce the subject to the whole Asso¬ 
ciation. We are really sitting as a com¬ 
mittee at present. I hope to hear it thor¬ 
oughly discussed. You may want to 
amend the bill in some details. The Leg¬ 
islature is awaiting your action. 
Mr. Sadler: I attended the meeting 
at Tampa, where we discussed this same 
law. At Tampa, the bill was endorsed 
almost unanimously. We had a regular 
love feast. * It is clear to my mind that 
the amendment should be, and will be, 
voted down. I have nothing to say 
against the Legislative Committee or any 
other committee, but as has been stated, 
this is a committee of the whole, and ev¬ 
ery man knows what is going on and the 
reason for it. I hope the gentleman will 
withdraw that amendment and let har¬ 
mony prevail. It will leave things in a 
better shape. I 
Mr. S. J. Carlton: It is unfortunate 
that the representative growers of the 
State of Florida should come 'here to 
consider a proposition that is of more 
vital importance than anything else, per¬ 
haps, and give them only three minutes 
of time. There are people here who 
ought to have all the time there is to 
inform themselves. It would be absolute¬ 
ly unfair to force him to make his re¬ 
marks in a few minutes on a proposition 
that means more than anything else. On 
this proposition depends whether we are 
going to grow oranges for a commercial 
proposition or for ornament. We are 
here to see if we cannot make our or¬ 
ange groves represent more in the future 
than we have in the past. 
We have listened with pleasure and 
profit to the ideas of culture and proper 
taking care of the groves, but when it 
comes to the marketing of our products, 
if we cannot do it when we can make 
money for ourselves, what use is it to 
grow them? There is no other orange 
growing country in the world so handi¬ 
capped as Florida. The markets will be 
