Full Text of HR0798 93rd General Assembly
HR0798 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, This year marks the 125th Anniversary of the | 3 |
| founding of the Clydesdale Breeders Association of the U.S.A.; | 4 |
| the Association was organized April 23, 1879 and incorporated | 5 |
| in the State of Illinois on December 4, 1879; and | 6 |
| WHEREAS, The first Stud Book was published in 1882 and | 7 |
| contained 1050 entries; nearly half of those entries were the | 8 |
| property of two owners, Robert Holloway of Illinois and the | 9 |
| Powell Bros. of Pennslyvania; a large number of entries were | 10 |
| imported, either from Canada or Scotland, before the American | 11 |
| Association was started; and | 12 |
| WHEREAS, Clydesdale business was strong in the 1870s and | 13 |
| 1880s and the Association held an annual show at the Illinois | 14 |
| State Fair, and then held the show in Chicago starting in 1884; | 15 |
| in 1893 the Association held a very successful show at the | 16 |
| Chicago World's Fair; the International Livestock Show in | 17 |
| Chicago was established in 1900 and was the top Clydesdale show | 18 |
| in the country for fifty years with the Clydesdale hitches | 19 |
| dominating the ring of interbreed hitch competition; and | 20 |
| WHEREAS, In 1931, because of a legal tax problem concerning | 21 |
| the non-profit status, the Association was advised by the | 22 |
| Secretary of State of Illinois that in order to be properly | 23 |
| listed as not for profit, it would be necessary to dissolve and | 24 |
| reorganize under a new name; as a result the Clydesdale | 25 |
| Breeders of the United States was incorporated in the State of | 26 |
| Illinois on June 29, 1933; and
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| WHEREAS, In May 1934, the Chicago Stockyards burned, | 28 |
| including the Clydesdale office, and all the records of the | 29 |
| Association were lost; although the 1930s saw Clydesdale | 30 |
| breeding stock facing hard times, Clydesdale hitches dominated | 31 |
| the competition and were very popular in the eyes of the |
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| public; the repel of Prohibition brought the debut of the | 2 |
| Anheuser Busch Eight Horse Hitch and it has become the best | 3 |
| advertisement for the Clydesdale horses in all times; and | 4 |
| WHEREAS, A small number of breeders kept the Association | 5 |
| alive in the 1940s and 1950s with some generations still active | 6 |
| within the Association to this time; the Association, which was | 7 |
| considered a minor breed, had only twenty to thirty | 8 |
| registrations a year during the 1950s and 1960s; by the end of | 9 |
| that decade things had improved dramatically and many new | 10 |
| people had joined the Association; and | 11 |
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WHEREAS, In 1972, the Association was outgrowing its rules | 12 |
| and bylaws adopted in the reorganization of 1933; new bylaws | 13 |
| were drawn up and the Association was reorganized a second | 14 |
| time; in May 1976 the office of the Association was moved to | 15 |
| Pecatonica where it remains today; the growth of the breed has | 16 |
| continued in an uphill manner for the rest of the 20th century; | 17 |
| in 1976 the number of registrations were 135 and has continued | 18 |
| to grow each year resulting in 641 being registered in 2003; | 19 |
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| WHEREAS, In May 1985, the Association held its first | 21 |
| National Clydesdale Sale in Decatur, and the sale was very | 22 |
| successful; in 1986 the National Sale was moved to the Illinois | 23 |
| State Fairgrounds in Springfield and has continued to be held | 24 |
| in that location since; the Association also decided to hold | 25 |
| their annual meetings in Springfield in conjunction with the | 26 |
| National Sale, which proved to be an excellent decision; and
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| WHEREAS, The 2004 National Sale and Annual Meeting will | 28 |
| take place on April 22-24; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 30 |
| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 31 |
| recognize the 125th Anniversary of the Clydesdale Breeders |
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| Association of the U.S.A.; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 3 |
| presented to the current President of the Clydesdale Breeders | 4 |
| Association of the U.S.A., Martin E. English, and secretary, | 5 |
| Betty Groves, as a token of our esteem.
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