The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . e efforts madeby the committee to secure proper leg-islation. The bill now before Congress,providing that it shall be unlawful toimport nursery stock until a permithas been issued therefor by the Sec-retary of Agriculture, was deemed bythe committee to be as good a bill ascould be secured at this time. At anyrate, the committee feared that if this were not accepted, there might be evenworse legislation. Mr. Pitkin calledattention to the fact that there willprobably not be any legislation on thissubject during the present session ofCongres
The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . e efforts madeby the committee to secure proper leg-islation. The bill now before Congress,providing that it shall be unlawful toimport nursery stock until a permithas been issued therefor by the Sec-retary of Agriculture, was deemed bythe committee to be as good a bill ascould be secured at this time. At anyrate, the committee feared that if this were not accepted, there might be evenworse legislation. Mr. Pitkin calledattention to the fact that there willprobably not be any legislation on thissubject during the present session ofCongress. The minority report of practically favored abolishing allinspection of imported stock. A mo-tion by Mr. Morey that this report beaccepted was lost. Mr. Peter Toung-ers, of Nebraska, gave a report onlegislative matters west of the Missis-sippi, dealing almost entirely with ef-forts at getting test cases institutedand court rulings on laws now in ex-istence in several western states. Upto this time no rulings of importancehave been Thos. B. American Association of Nurserymen . At the suggestion of Mr. Pitkin, acommittee was appointed to draw up aresolution formulating the views andwishes of the convention in regard tofurther action of the legislative commit-tee, and toward the close of the con-vention the following was adopted: RESOLVED. That the report of theLegislative Committee on matters ofFederal Legislation be accepted andthat their endorsement of House BillNo. 24119 be approved, and, further,that the new Legislative Committee beinstructed to co-operate with the UnitedStates Department of Agriculture inurging the speedv passage of the billreferred to, or any other bill not ma-terially changing the provisions thereof. The convention further voted the sumof one thousand dollars to be expendedin the further prosecution of testcases, particularly the case of Mr. Reid, of Vincennes. Indiana, againstthe Colorado authorities for unwar
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