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ton and try to get them to substitute our 
men for the one they have already ap¬ 
pointed to go abroad. All in favor please 
saye “Aye.” The motion is carried. 
Mr. Skinner: Mr. President, I object. 
The motion has not been carried. You 
did not ask for the negative of that 
question. Now, I feel that it is a very 
unwise move to make, and it may be 
there are others here who feel the way I 
do about it. I rise to a point of order. 
Prof. Hume: You are right, Mr. 
Skinner, and I was wrong. The motion 
has not been carried. 
You have all heard the motion; those in 
favor please say “Aye.” Opposed “No.” 
The motion is carried. 
Mr. Temple: We can’t be any worse 
off than we are now, whatever action the 
government may take. Mind you, through 
Mr. Fletcher we got the government to 
appropriate $10,000, then this man How¬ 
ard, without any initiative or request 
from anyone, went before them and told 
them it was entirely too much; that they 
might just as well cut that in half; that 
he had a young man in his office who 
would go for his expenses; that is the 
way they foisted this thing off on us. 
I think maybe when our Secretary 
takes the matter up this way it may put 
a little different light on the matter. 
Those people up there don’t know our 
situation at all. They think Howard 
knows what he is talking about and we 
poor farmers aren’t capable of judging 
what we want. 
Mr. Rosenfeldt: You have overlooked 
Mr. Painter’s request as to what to do 
with the money. I move that the money 
be returned to the people who sent it. 
Prof. Hume: It has been moved and 
seconded that the sum of money that Mr. 
Painter has in his possession on account 
of the whitefly investigation, be returned 
to the people who so kindly and public 
spiritedly sent it to the Secretary of the 
Society. Motion carried. 
Mr. Burton: I think there is one point 
that this meeting should take into consid¬ 
eration, and that is, the subject of having 
laws to protect yourselves. You ought 
to have a State law that would obviate 
the possibility of importing insects or 
pests of any kind. It is possible for your 
counties to do something, but there would 
not be much evenness about it. 
Out in California, somebody brought 
in some trees from Florida that had the 
whitefly. You ought to have seen those 
Californians. They came pretty near hav¬ 
ing a fit. They didn’t rest a day, hardly. 
They took the matter up before the Hor¬ 
ticultural Commission. The head of that 
department said, “I am very sorry, gen¬ 
tlemen, but we have not a dollar in the 
treasury.” The Exchange finally sent a 
man to Sacramento to see the governor 
and requested him to reimburse them for 
the money they would have to expend in 
stamping out the whitefly. The governor 
readily promised to do what he could for 
them, and it ended by $15,000 being ap¬ 
propriated out of the treasury, they turn¬ 
ed this over to the State Horticultural 
Commission and they did not stop until 
every whitefly was exterminated. I have 
heard since that the inspectors have been 
where the whitefly made its appearance 
and could not find a trace of a fly that 
was not killed. 
