Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-01-07
aTHE JOURNALS ssExpLANATIoN."

WNDus MI. ANUS Ahyulall, VI AHE OHlO
6TATks,kkN, made application to the Secre-
tary, for his minutes Of the Proceedings for
publication In that paper. 1t was then ex-
prcssly. agreed and understood between the
Secretary, Mr.. Foster, of The State Journal
and Mr.. Layman, that the latter should be
furnished with the proceedings, and should
seRd slips 70 the Office of The State y oarndl.-
Upon that understanding, Mr.. Layman re-
ceiyed the original minutes OF the Secreta-
"; so that on the call for reading the
minutes on the reassembiing of the Conven-
tlon, the Secretary was unable to comply
W.sn the request, and assigned the facts, as
N6'111r o1Rd, IN explanation. AS evil
dence that Mr.. Layman had the same un-
uerstanding Of the subject with the Secre-
tary and Mr.. Foster, we state the fact that
early In the evening he sent to The Journal
Office slip containing the proceedings at
the morning meeting, as changed and gdrbled
by hinseV. This was copied by The Journal,
with all the ear-marks of Layman's revis-
ion. The reason why the afternoon pro-
ceedIngs were not given in The Journal of
yesterday, is simply because Laynadil didnot
comply toith his agreement, made with the Sec
retary and Mr. Foster, to send slips thereof
TO us.n
THE TRUTH.
Mr.. LAYMAN was at the Convention as
member thereof, and for the purpose of re-
porting its proceedings for The STATESMAN.
He saw very soon after the organization
was completed that the Secretary's report
would not besatisfactory to the Convention,
II printed as it was written. He preferred
10 make his own report, and, as matter of
course, had access to the papers on the Sec
rctary's desk-just as any other reporter
could have bad. He desired to print re-
port creditable both to the Convention and
The STATESMAN; and his report was adopt
ed by the Secretary as the official report
for Mr.. ALLEN came to our Office after the
adjournment of the Convention-aboutI
midnight--and handed us the name of the
President and his own name, written on a
piece Of paper, and requested us to append
them to our report Of the proceedings,
which was done.
Mr.. EesrRR, OF The Journal, spoke to Mr..
LNxMAx about ''slip" of proceedings,
early I'm the morning session; and it was
promised blm-and we took the pains
10 send it to the office of The Journal
before we went to supper: That contained
the proceedings up to the afternoon recess.
II was eleven o'clock at night before any
more Of the proceedings went into the
hands Of the compositors; and then, Mr..
LAYMAN LEFT the Convention to come to the
Office, while that body was discussing the
propriety Of omitting to print the Report
Of the Committee on Advertising and the |
Report Of the Committee on Job Printing.
The Convention afterwards decided to en-
body both Reports in the published pro-
ceedings; and was nearly midnight when |
it adjourned. It was one o'clock, Thursday |
morning, when our composltors got the
concluding part Of the proceedings in type
and Corrected The Journal could have
had another "slip," IL the Quartermaster
had deemed It worth while to send for it; |
but as he failed to send, his paper was
without q full report of the proceedings
he having no Reporter to look after such /
matters. Mr.. LAYMAN was willing TO fur
nish his report to The Jownal-and even
20 send down 'slip" of the day proceed
ings, which he did; but he never agreed to
ssad slips after midnight, and up to the
hour o. going 10 press. IfThe Journal had
any ''enssrprtse," it would, at least, have
sent to eur Office for that part of our report
which 10 failed to get. 1t prints that part
I'm itsissue Of Friday morning, ''as changed
and gay6lsdr by the Quartermaster's Dog
berry. "EIis tampering with the official
record q, however, matter between the |
Convention and himself"
The Secretary's minutes were returned to |
him byMf.LAxsdAN; hence, The Journals |
charge that they could not be read to the |
Convention, rs ALSO FALSE.