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duties about to be assumed by Messrs. Brown and Escher will be as in- 

 valuable in the general assembly as they have been on the state board of 

 agriculture. 



J. P. MULLEN, 



E. M. WENTWORTH, 



C. J. MARTIN, 



Committee. 



Mr. Gillilland of Mills County: I want to say a word on one 

 feature of the resolutions. I want to congratulate the farmers of 

 Iowa on the stand they are now taking in this matter. I have heen 

 in the legislature for five sessions, and I served previous to that 

 time on the Board of Regents of the State University. I have come 

 to the legislature and asked for money to save the great members 

 of our faculty of the university, and have been told by the farmers 

 that they would give us money, but not a dollar to raise the sal- 

 aries of the faculty. You people here today are taking a different 

 stand. I am glad to support here today that particular feature of 

 your resolutions. There are some other parts of the resolutions, 

 and I am glad you recognize the splendid services of some of the 

 professors at Ames. I am glad you are ready to spread the Ames 

 influence all over Iowa ; that is what I would like to see done. That 

 particular paragraph pleases me mightily, not merely as a member 

 of the former board, but as a member of the legislature, and I sup- 

 port the whole business because that paragraph is in there. 



Mr. Waller of Floyd County: Mr. President, I wish to em- 

 phasize every word that my friend, Mr. Gillilland, has said, and 

 I wish to say that I believe the farmers of Iowa are today standing 

 more ready than they have ever been in the history of this state 

 to render financial aid of the legislature of Iowa to support every 

 professor in every institution that belongs to this state, and I be- 

 lieve that they are commendable in that spirit. Only the other 

 day I was riding on the cars and a young man occupied the seat 

 with me. I asked him where he was going and he said he was 

 going to one of our institutions of the state in search of knowledge. 

 I talked with him a few minutes and I said, "My friend, are you 

 seeking education in theology or are you going to make a teacher 

 of yourself?" and he said, "I'll tell you. I think I will teach 

 awhile in order to aid myself through. I have not decided that." 

 I said, "Let me give you a little advice: Why don't you go to 

 Ames?" "Well," he said, "I've been thinking of that." I said 

 to him, "My friend, when you go to Ames and you graduate from 

 there you are in demand in every state in the Union. If you go 



