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lllifwis Pliiu for Laud (Ivan I Colicties 51 the industrial league and getting educational conventions, agricultural and horticultural societies, and even individuals to back them up in the various ways in which influence would count The leaders of the conventions just held followed up their numerous speeches and resolutions by specific action that brought immediate and very definite results. Two memorials were prepared; one by J. B. Turner, signed by Bronson Murray, was addressed to the senate and the house of the state of Illinois, and a similar one reported by the committee headed by Governor French was addressed to congress!; As the wording of this second memorial is identical in many places with that of the first, confessedly written by Turner, it is very probable that he wrote the one addressed to congress as well. The memorial addressed to the legislature was presented in the senate by Mr. Cook, January 20,1853, and two days later it was read before the house by Mr. Moulton from the committee on education and five hundred copies of it were ordered printed.47 This memorial rehearsed the needs of an industrial university and urged the application of the "university fund" for its support. It turned then from consideration of Illinois interests only and requested the legislature to take definite action and to use its influence with congress in behalf of each of the states of the American union. The most important paragraph of this memorial, for which every land grant institution in this country would have the keenest gratitude if they knew and understood its significance, is as follows: "We would, therefore, respectfully petition the honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Illinois, that they present a united memorial to the Congress now assembled at Washington, to appropriate to each State in the Union an amount of public lands, not less in value than five hundred thousand dollars, for the liberal endowment of a system of Industrial Universities, one in each State in the Union, to co-operate with each other, and with*$he Smithsonian Institute at Washington, for the more liberal and practical education of our industrial classes and their teachers, in their various pursuits, for the production of knowledge and literature House Journal, 18 general assembly, 1 session, 184; Senate Journal, 18 general assembly, 1 session, 102, |fll 41
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