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Higbie, of Los Angeles, Chairman of the Assembly Committee on 

 Education, who was ably seconded by numerous zealous members of 

 our Order, and equally zealous representatives of the Mechanics 

 Association, whom the people had placed on guard in our legislative 

 halls. 



We must not, however, omit to mention, that while subsequent in 

 vestigations in the Legislature were going on, and when Bros. Ham 

 ilton and Wright were absent at the National Grange in St. Louis, 

 Bro. Baxter performed all the duties of the Committee. He went to 

 Sacramento several times at the summons of the Investigating Com 

 mittee. During some five or six weeks he devoted much of his time 

 to answering questions of the Committee, and of some of the Regents 

 with whom he was confronted. 



It should be well understood by all of us, that none of the acts of 

 this, or any other of our Grange Committees that visited Sacramento 

 last winter, partook in the least of a partisan character; but appeals 

 in behalf of our industrial interests were made impartially to our 

 friends of every political party, and we found they met us without 

 any regard to party distinctions. Hence our strength. 



We should not fail to mention that our worthy brother, Professor 

 Carr, gave us material aid in all this work, whenever he was called 

 upon to do so. 



The result of these many earnest efforts for the advancement of 

 the great cause of industrial and practical, as well as of theoretical 

 education on this Coast, was the hearty approval of the measures 

 recommended in our joint memorial by the legislative Committees 

 on Education, and the preparation of a bill enacting the necessary 

 reforms, which was within an hour of the time of passing, when 

 pledges came, understood to be authorized by the present Board of 

 Regents, that if said bill was not passed, and the matter was dropped, 

 Brother Carr, the able and experienced Professor of Agriculture in 

 the State University, would not be interfered with, but would be 

 permitted, in good faith, to carry out, under his most competent! 

 supervision, and by use of the liberal appropriations of the Legisla-j 

 ture, the various ideas advanced in the joint memorial. 



All these, and subsequent facts, however, are so fully and ably 

 set forth in the unanswerable statements of Professor Carr, in his 

 recent history of this entire struggle, that we deem it necessary 

 merely to refer to his noble paper, which is filed herewith as docu 

 ment &quot;B.&quot; 



Unfortunately for the cause of industrial education, and unfortu- 

 natel} for the educational interests of a vast majority of the citizens 

 of this State, the pledges given were believed to be reliable, and no 

 further effort was made to pass the bill. Yet that bill would, unless 

 killed by the Senate, have been a law within an hour after these 

 pledges were made, and would at once and forever have removed the 

 only obstacle that exists to making our valued University eventually 

 one of the most complete embodiments of the true University idea 

 in the world, an ornament to the cause of modern education, and a 

 far greater honor to our State than we can ever hope to see it under 

 the blighting hand of a selfish and moneyed aristocracy and monop 

 oly, which, like all its kindred &quot; rings&quot; everywhere, has too long 



