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Struggle for Location 1865-1867 221 After the reading of the federal land grant act of 1862 and the bill submitted to the last legislature by the agricultural committee, the convention entered upon a discussion of the resolutions. Among those who declared themselves in favor of a single institution and the resolutions, were Smiley Shepard of Putnam county, Mr. Sanford of Grundy, J. B. Turner of Morgan, 0. B. Galusha of Grundy, and W. Martin of Knox. N. C. Meeker of Dongola announced that he was in favor of two agricultural colleges, owing to the differences in climate and soils in the state. W. H. Pierce of Champaign declared himself opposed to the third resolution for he believed the question of the location of the university belonged to the legislature and not to a commission. Finally the resolutions were adopted as a whole, after which 0. B. Galusha offered the following which was also adopted by the convention: "Resolved, That the committee who have presented the report before this meeting shall constitute the committee contemplated in the resolutions, and that we instruct them to secure the revision of the bill presented to the Legislature of this state at its last session by a committee appointed by a convention of the people of this State, and cause 1,000 copies of the bill to be printed; also, that they be instructed to secure the appointment of sub-committees in each of the representative and senatorial districts of this State, whose duty it shall be to present a copy of said bill to each and every person whose name shall be before the people as a candidate for nomination to the offices of Representative and Senator to the General Assembly of this State, and shall receive the public pledges of such candidates for nomination that they will use all laudable endeavors, if nominated and elected, to secure the passage of said bill; and that in case any candidate shall refuse or neglect to give such pledge, such sub-committee shall publish the fact of such refusal throughout the district in which such candidate resides through the newspapers published therein.'I 13 The Tribune called this convention the "Bloomington antimonopoly convention,*514 while the Central Illinois Gazette conu CMcago Tribune, December 15, 1865. "Chicago Tribune, December 20, 1865.
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