The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-03-24

leu Objects Etk4k lL1u w eli last year WOult
not suffer this, on the same salary. Bet
ter reduce the taxes than increase saIar
les. This the Legislature did, our Repre-
sentatives contributing their part, from
s to mills on the dollar.
Mr.. Eskridgeis either not posted as tc
the facts, or ha wilfnlly perverts then
by trying to create the impression thai
salaries were cut down in our institu.
ton by the Legislature, while others
got all they asked for, and that ouI
members connived at this.
The facts are these: Our institution
received the same salary for its teachers
that it did last year, and the other usual
incidental expenses, except, however,
$3.50 to do ''that little piece of work, y
(the Normal school fence,) sohich cost,
according to the aCorknaea's GceOunt, just
si1 hundred Gsad flfty-One dollars and
tsoe1lty cents!! Then deduct half the
partition fence, which Mr.. Eskridge
ought to have paid for out of his own
pocket, according to the law he himself
helped to make, <see Gen. Statutes, Oh.
/
the rock which the workmen who made
the fence excavated at Us,y losc price
and what the exact expense to the State
ought to have been for "that little piece
of work." (when half of the partition
fence, and the rock which went into the
foundation of that tall brick building
on the corner of Sixth avenue and Com
mercial street, are deducted from the
S651: 20,) will better appear sohen that
itemGsed account is filed a0ith the Clerk
Of the Board! Eskridge, however,
drew $3.50 for "that little piece of
work !"
Not, we apprehend, "from any consci-
entious convictions of duty" did he
draw the $3.50, so much as from actual
love of money. No wonder then, when
motion was made in the Board to pro-
dnce that itemized account it reminded
him of a SteatSomeaehere. But give
him fair warning now, if that itemized
account has not been filed with the
clerk of the Board, before this date l
shall object, upon legal principles,
however, seeing that he and his facto-
tum have no appreciation of conscience.
They ignore and sheer at conscience as
a faculty of the human mind.
To return. We have said that the
Legislature treated all the institutions
alike, if any odds ours little the
best. $4,000 was knocked out of the
estimated expenses in the State Peni-
Tertiary. The agricultural college ask
ed for 5000 and got $1,000. The Nor
NAL school at Leavenworth asked for
81 900 for Preceptress, $1,000 for Prin-
cipel of Model school, and $1,000 for
Professor of Drawing, and got $1,000
for Preceptress, $500 for Principel of
Model school, while the Professor of
Drawing, like our second assistant, was
left out entirely. The State University
got the same appropriation for current
expenses as in former years. All these
estimates of expenses came before the
Legislature under the endorsement of
their several Boards of Directors, Re-
gents, sc, and the Legislature exercised
its own discretion, treating them all
very nearly alike.
AS to the appropriations for new
buildings. The insane asylum seemed
tOSbe an absolute necessity. And after
sending a special committee to investi-
gate the subject, $4,000 was voted for q
new building for that institution. But
at the close of the Legislature there
stood in q group, $4,000 to complete
the state University at Lawrence, $780,
600 to complete the wing of the Capitol,
$25, 900 for the Normal school, $4,000
for the Orphan asylum, at LeaVen-
worth, i'll ali $4,000. These several
claims were pressed with about the
same zeal by their friends from their
respective localities. Some were press
ed by a strong lobby, as the State I'm
iversity. One had this argument in
its favor and another that. One passed
this strait and another that. But they
all shared the same fate. 1t seemed
proper that they should succeed or fail
together. Taken together, it is better
to wait another year. At least the
Legislature thought so, and doubtless
a large majority OF the tax payers think
so.
"They accomplished" then, about
what our Representatives accomplished
last winter, except they did not foist
upon the city of Emporia bonded
debt of $4,000 for Normal school club
honses. The building of said houses
the institutions themselves, and the
manner in which they are now run, the
| debt upon the city, and what it contrib
utes to reduce city scrip tc 60cts on the
dollar, speak for themselves. Our hard
| working citizens can analyze the prob
al their leisure.
AS to the United States Senator
When the election of this turned upon
money and the most stupendous com
binatiOns, the only responsible and
criminal parties are those who are i'm
plicated in the corruption. Failures
which are charged upon our Represen
tatives, may with equal force be turned
upon the older and most populouI
counties of the State-Douglas an6
Shawnee had their local and projects
candidate for United States Senator
They failed.
1 Mr.. Eskridge's croaking abou
voting papers, postage, and sta
tionery to members of the Legislature
is pueriIe. don't suppose Legislature
ever met in this or any other State buf
what incurred like expenses, and NJ
doubt Mr.. Eskridge has voted the same
thing every time he has been in thu
Legislature.
Really the whole article is that sort o
cheap criticism, costing but little brain o.
soul to produce it; such as grows spon
taneously in every disaffected aspiran
who seeks to build up, not upon merit
but by pulling down somebody else
1 can assure Mr. Eskridge, that he viii
have to get out of the way about for
ty other citizens of Emporia-eveI
should he succeed in demolishing my
self-before he can rise above his pres
emit sphere. This way of attempting
success is an endless task; a man i
most certain to wear himself ont befor
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