The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.4, page 242, Dec. 1896, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers From Warren Logan Tuskegee ~ ~ /4/~ 896 Dear Mr. Washington: A committee from the legislature was here yesterday—not quite as many were in the party as we were expecting, yet there were thirty in the party including the speaker of the house, Col. Clement and Major CuIver,2 Commissioner of Agriculture. The party reached Tuskegee at one thirty arid after dinner at the hose] came out to the school and went through all of the industrial departments. After completing the round of the departments they assembled in the pavilion and a few of them spoke to the school. Those who spoke publicly and privately expressed themselves as very much surprised and gratified at what they had seen at the school and said that they would do all in their power to' help' the school in its effort to have an Experiment Station established here. Mr. Campbell, Judge Hurt and Milo Abercrombie3 came out front the town and went around with the committee. Mr. Campbell made a speech to the committee telling something of the early history of the school. I believe that the visit of the committee will help us very greatly In every way. I think Mr. Hares cannot be commended too highly for the part which he took in the affair. He will follow up our bill in the legislature and I have no doubt but that it will go through but as the legislature adjourns for recess next week it is not likely that the bill can be pushed through until the legislature re-assembles in Jan. Very truly yours, Warren Logan TLS Con. :~8 BTW Papers DLC. Newton Nash Clements (~837-:goo) was born in Tuscaloosa and graduated from the University of Alabama in 1858. He studied law at Harvard University but never practiced that profession, pursuing instead his interest in cotton planting and manufacture. From ~ 870 Clements served almost continuously in the state legislature for twenty-five years. He was elected speaker of the house four times and was instrumental in developing the bill establishing the state school system. In 1880 Clements was appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Congress, but lost the bid for renomination in ~ 88~. 2 Isaac Franklin Culver, born in Sparta, Gal, in 1830, moved to Alabama with his family as a young man and became a cotton planter in Bullock County. After serving in the state legislature from 1878 to 188e, Culver spent the next six years as Bullock County superintendent of education and president of the state agricultural society. From 1896 until Moo he was state commissioner of agriculture. 242