REPORTS OF THE STATE BOARD OP
AGRICUL
TURE.
Mr. FISHER, by unanimous consent, submitted a joint resolution. He said from examining into the expenses of the lie Printing, that the cost of printing the Report of the State Board of Agriculture amount" to about $9,000 a volume. His joint resolution was numbered 34, to discontinue the publication of the State Board of Agriculture.
Mr. STOTSENBERG moved to refer it to the Select Committee on Printing.
Mr. HEFFREN hoped it would not be refer red. Let us stop each case of abuse as we find it-at once.
Mr. PROSSER referred to the publication three years ago of reports from the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Documentary journal-costing this State $10,000 which was not worth one cent after they were published-as a most outrageous practice upon the Treasury. Let us clean this thing out: ("consent") he did not care whether Democrat or Republican were involved He was in favor of this two years ago.
Mr. FISHER. In presenting this resolution, he did not wish to be understood as making any charge of corruption. The law requires the State Board of Agricultute to make a report; and this made it a sort of State affair-showing its transactions, expenditures &c. He was not aware of any law requiring the publication of these reports; but they were placed in the hands of the public printer, and generally published from a year and a half to two years after date, when they have become entirely valueless. He regarded it simply as a useless expense, and wished to stop it.
Messrs. Davis, Black, Frasier and Branham spoke in favor of the resolution ; and then the motion to refer was lost, and the joint resolution adopted-yeas 70, nays 0.
