PUBLICATION OF SOCIETY REPORTS.
Mr. HOWLAND desired that the report would not be concurred in. If it was the sense of the Committee he would not object to striking out that provision of the bill which provided for an appropriation by the State to pay for the publication of reports of these several Societies. He thought that these Societies are composed of the industrious and representative men of almost page: 224[View Page 224] every County in the State. They meet in Indianapolis every year to hold their annual meetings. They ask this appropriation for the purpose of publishing their reports that the farmers all over the State may have the benefit of their reports and statistics.
Mr. MUTZ could see no necessity for this bill at the present time. He had no objections to these Societies, but he did not think they should ask the State to pay their expenses.
Mr. OILMAN favored the report of the Committee to indefinitely postpone. He was of the opinion that the^e same reports were to be found in the reports of the State Board of Agriculture. He was not in favor of taxing the whole people to pay the expense of Associations composed of a few persons.
Mr. SMITH, of Tippecanoe, was in favor of doing every thing possible to encourage the agricultural, mechanical and other Associations of 'the State. He favored the suggestion of the gentleman from Marion [Mr. Howland] to press the bill, if necessary, without the appropriation.
Mr. DEEM was astonished at the report of the Committee. He was satisfied that the Committee labored under a misapprehension concerning the provision of the measure. It is a bill to encourage stock raising, wool growing and cane growing, etc. The appropriation asked is to publish these reports that they may be scattered among the farmers of the State. The reports are not introduced simply for the breeders and stock men, but they are for all farmers.
On motion by Mr. DEEM the report of the Committee was laid on the table and the bill was ordered engrossed.
