The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-03-20
A CORRECTION.

Editors sometimes make mistakes,
and when they do, if they are just and
fair, they will always correct them. Last
week, in the hurry to get to press, being
a day behind with our paper, we wrote
a paragraph about the fact that the sala-
airy of the Associate Principal of the
State Normal School had been greatly
reduced by the last Legislature, which
was not only mistake, but reflected
somewhat OH our Representatives. The
paragraph was written carelessly, and
under misapprchension of the facts.
Our intention, at the time of writing it,
was only to give currency to rumors
which were being prettygenerally talked
ofamong our citizens, that there had been
foulplay OF negligence somewhere. We
did not believe those rumors were true,
nor did we intend to indorse them, but
only intended to make them public, that
those interested might, through the
same channel, correct any mistake UNI
der which the people were labOring.
We have had nothing but the best OF
feeling, always, towards our Repressn-
tatives, and believed they had done the
best they could do for the school under
the pressure brought upon it last winter
Upon more careful reading of the
paragraph alluded to, after the paper
was out, we found it was susceptible OF
an entirely different meaning from
what we intended in writing it, and La
bic to work injury to those we had nc
desire to injuEc, and therefore this ex-
PLANTATION.
Now for the following letter which
explains itself, and which We hope will
be entirely satisfactory to those who
have found fault:
EMPoRIA, March 1st, 1868.
MIR. SToTLER-Sir: The following
letter from John T. Morton, Chief CLERK
of the the last House of Representatives
will, l think, not only satisfactorily
account for clerical error in the APP.
preparation Bill, but will also correct the
misapprehensiOns created by your arti.
Gle on the subject in the News of last
week, that the Legislature intended to
reduce the salary of the Assistant Pro
fessor of the Normal School to 5000, and
that the bill % passed with such blum
der in it, u. B. PLUMB.
| topeka, Kansas, Mar. II, 1868.
Hon. z. u. PLUMB-Sir: 1 find that
there is mistake III enrolling the APP
preparation Bill, giving the Assistant
Professor of the Normal School 5000
instead ofS1500. Fortunately the Jour-
mails and the proofs 1 will retain, with
my certificate and Manning's, will pre-
sent such :: case to the next Legislature
that there will be no difficulty in getting
the balance, probably with interest.
! am glad to assure Miss Hunt that
the error did not occur i'll her depart
ment. You remember how short time
there was for the bill to be prepared for
the Enrolling Clerks, and button and /
did it with :: confusion and paper-balls
flying around us-one of the latter put
ting out our lamp in the midst of it,
and having to compare three papers,
viz: the original bill, the Senate amend
, ments and the report of the Committee
of CONFERENCE.-THE the error Law right
there.
There can be no doubt that the balance
will be appropriated by the next Legis.
lature; when, let us hope, scrip will
be worth more, and thus make the error
less injurious.
Respectfully, yoCr ob't servant,
Jon-N t. MORTON.