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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870
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399 Were such the character and such the life lived by the rural population, our political economists would have no reason to speculate on the decline and extinction of the race. A higher and more glorious destiny would await them class legislation and class privilege would disappear before their intelligence, and a more perfect intellectual, physical and moral man would convert our country into a modern Eden. DISCUSSION. LAWRENCE—In many respects the west is ahead of the east; in others behind, and for one, in legal reform. Thirteen years ago it was proposed in our legislature, and only one man of all the lawyers there was willing to look into it. A man in this State cannot sue me for $120 wages before a justice of the peace. He must go into court and employ a lawyer. BALDWIN—There have been propositions before the two last legislatures to extend the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace even as high as $500. Adjourned. THURSDAY MORNING, February 24—9 o'clock. Messrs. Galusha, Moss and Church were appointed the committee under Mr. Galusha's resolutions. PROF. SHATTUCK, of the Industrial University, repeated his lecture on Drainage, which was succeeded by the following discussion: KNAPP—Thought drainage in Rock county, Wisconsin, and in the northern part of this county would be a damage. Would you drain in Kansas where the heat is 120° and the rain fall 25 inches % SHATTUCK—I would drain in some cases to check evaporation. These are exceptional cases. KNAPP—It will do to drain in a clay subsoil. It would not do here, nor north. LAWRENCE—Every foot of the country here, except along the river, will be benefited by drainage. My farm is on rolling prairie, underlain by red clay. 1857 or 1858 was very wet and hot. Oats were killed dead, so that I did not have a pint on twenty acres—simply from lack of drainage. There is a good deal of land here and in Wisconsin that will pay for draining. GALUSHA—I differ with the gentleman from Wisconsin in his
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