The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-02-21
TOPEKA CORRESPONDENCE.
TOPEKA, February 10, 1868.


The contest is over. Emporia is van
quished, and the University is located at
Lawrence. The House has passed the
act; and the Senate, yesterday, following
the lead of the House, ordered the bill to its
third reading.
There was hope that Senators might be
depended upon to defeat the Lawrence lobby.
But that hope proves to be as deluoive as
Senatorial promises are sometimes found
to be-
1t will be useless to cry over spilled milk,
OF, initiating the Gagged Napoleon, fight the
battle over again on paper. Suffice it TO say,
that the Senate has decided, by vote of
10 to 7, to favor Lawrence; that Messrs.
Baker, Brockway, Foster, SpalGing, and
Potter, together with the entire Leaven-
worth delegation-who should have sup
ported Emporia-have given way to the
persuasive eloquence and forcible logic of
Lawrence, and are now sailing in her wake.
How all this has been effected, is not so
clear. No oratorical display, no apparent
causes, nor manifest purposes, seem to ex-
list sufficiently powerful to account for the
result; and all that is known is the upshot
of the matter. Emporia has got back-slap,
while Lawrence is triumphant.
While Emporia has for two years fought
the battle against Manhattan almost single
handed and alone, the success is all care
fully saved for Lawrence. We have fought
only to win her victory, we have sown that
she might reap-and now we can pay taxes
to ornament her streets and keep her people
in funds.
7asss! If that word makes you shud-
der now, what will ii do to you by this time
twelvemonth ? Let US figure it up.
The tax of 1862 amounted to $4,000
or thereabouts, to pay one years current
expenses and the interest on our bonds.
Now this Legislature has at least as much
to provide for in that way-perhaps more,
but certainly not less. Besides which they
intend to spend $4,000 for the deaf and
dumb at Baldwin City, $4,000 for the
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for a temporary State House; and about
100000 of bonds are to be issued for
bridges, and $4,000 to make good the
Stevens contract, of which bonds at least
ten per cent. must be collected annually,
for the interest and sinking fund-which
will be another S25, 900. Besides all this,
provision is making to pay off the Terrific
rial debt of 100000, which We will suppose
is all taken up in bonds, and will require
another yearly sum of $4,000 to be raised.
the present State debt we viii not mention,
as it is perhaps Offset by the delinquent
taxes, which will perhaps be collected and
paid in, sometime. Now all this makes the
snug sum of $4,000. to be provided for
this next year; and the taxes annually will
not be much less.
To offset this burden, we will get golden
plum, pay $4,000 on the Stevens contract,
and we shall be able to set our. conviets al
work earning something, and shall save
something in the way of rent, aud shall en-
Joy the profits of the bridges (God save the
mark y; and. as our taxes will be solid, Sc
people will rush in. and we will be able tc
pay off that little pile of bonds. on matur.
ity, without knowing that they have been
issued at all.
Well, perhaps with our Governors 6nan.
cial skill, it viii all come out easy in the end
/ The legislators seem to trust In him, and
act as though this were the time to launch
out. hope it will be right. But doub
IL even he can carry so big load. vs.
shall know, by holding on to our real es.
tate few years.
= Mr. Eskridge deserves credit for bis
untiring energy. aud the skill which he has
exercised in behalf of Emporia. He was
opposed by large and powerful delegation,
shrewd and interruptions lobby, and an
offer of $4,000 to the State; he was log