Report of Legislative Committee 
Mr. Hume: I will now call for the 
report of the Legislative Committee, if 
they have anything further to say. Mr. 
Gillette, -have you anything further to 
present ? 
Mr. Gillette: At the last meeting of 
the Florida Horticultural Society, you 
entrusted to this committee the matter 
of getting State aid for the Horticultural 
Society. 
As you are all aware,* in the years 
which have passed, we have been general¬ 
ly pretty hard up. It has generally been 
the case that some of us would have to 
go down in our pockets and help make up 
the difference. Luckily, however, we are 
not in that unfortunate position this year. 
I understand the treasury is m better 
shape than it ever has been. 
Your Legislative Committee, after due 
deliberation, decided that it would not 
be best to make any attempt to get an 
appropriation from the Legislature just 
now. We felt we had better get what 
was in sight and not ask for too much, 
or we would not get anything. If the 
Society asked for an appropriation of 
several thousand dollars in addition to 
the $20,000 which it would take to get 
the crop pest bill, we were afraid neither 
one would pass and, realizing the greater 
importance of the crop pest bill, we de¬ 
cided we would not make an attempt this 
year for an appropriation for the Socie¬ 
ty. We present this as an excuse for not 
carrying out your wishes at the last 
meeting, believing you would concur with 
us. I would like to have a vote on this 
sanctioning our action, or reproving us 
at this time. 
Mr. -: I move our concur¬ 
rence of their action. 
(Seconded and carried.) 
Mr. Gillette: Since this meeting has 
been in session, a matter has come up 
which we knew nothing about until this 
morning. Judge Stewart, one of the 
members of the committee, brought a 
gentleman to me, as chairman of the com¬ 
mittee, with this resolution. I took the 
matter up with Mr. Taber, the only 
other member of the committee I could 
find, and he with Judge Stewart, en¬ 
dorsed it, and we now present it to the 
Society for action. 
(Reads resolution.) 
Whereas , the great need of our State 
of Florida today is more adequate 
means of transportation, and 
Whereas , more extensive transporta¬ 
tion facilities would greatly develop 
the thousands of acres of fertile lands 
now lying idle, by inducing thousands 
of settlers to locate in our state, and 
Whereas, the opening of Mosquito 
Inlet to deep sea navigation would 
greatly reduce our freight rates, and 
supply a much needed means of trans¬ 
portation, therefore be it 
Resolved, that the Florida State Hbr- 
