The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-06-23

able Of n Satisfactory Explanation.
RoMSGY, W. VA, June 20, 1870.
Editors lhtelllgQneer.
The Board Of Regents for the lnStitu
ton for the Deaf and Dumb and Bllnt
met at the Institution yesterday. All tht
members were present except Col. Camp
bell, All the old teachers and officer
were reelected. The institution seems to
be in a flourishing condition. There is
very marked improvement in the pupils
generally,
1t Is understood that the Board gave
considerable attention to the charges
made by the lNTELLIuRSCER against the
Principal OF the Institution. The Board
prepared specific answer to each OF the
charges submitted by the IETELLIGESCER,
on the 10th inst, aud will send the same
to tue Governor.
To the charge that the Principal report.
ed more pupils than were in actual attend.
GnCe 1t Is answered that by the rules oil
the Institution 50 soon as the application
OF person Is received and approved such
person Is enrolled and provision made for
his admission.
To the charge that the principal in his
last report gave the number los as on the
rolls, tended 10 mislead the Governor and
Legislature, II Is answered that said report
on page "a expressly precludes any such
conclusion. 1t does not seem possible
that any one could be misled by the Ian.
guage used by the principal in that con.
nection. While l05 we're enrolled at tho
beginning OF last year, only s. OF them
were present at any one time during the
year. But the principal could not posi-.
bly, know who would or who would not be
present, and therefore 1t was clearly his
duty to ask for an appropriation sufficient
to support all II present.
The Principal receives salary, and
could have no possible motive in mlslead.
ing the Legislature al to the number Of
pupils present or money necessary to sup.
port them. Neither could affect HIM In
the least, At the meeting OF the Board
last October, when the Principals report
was made, there being los on the rolh 1t
was thought best to ask for enough money
from the Legislature to supply their wants,
but during the session OF the Legislature,
and after It was ascertained that not more
than s. had been or would likely attend
during that session, the resident members
OF the Board, after consultation and adj
vising with the Principal, came to the
conclusion that 81, 900 would be sufficient,
instead of the SIS, 900 originally asked for,
and thereupOn Mr.. Pierce, member OF
the Board, wrote 10 a member Of the SEN
ate saying that $4,000 would cover the
wants Of the Institution. This is the let.
ter referred to by Capt. Wilson in his let
ter to DR.. Hullihen.
You are in error in your estimate OF the
costs per capita OF the pupils OF the in
stitutiOn. II you take the last report
(Which gives an itemized statement OF the
receipts and expenditures for the session
OF 1867 and 1878 and estimate from
the agg. egase expenditures, the items for
permanent improvement and clothing,
which is paid for by the committees, and
other things not properly chargeable to
any one year, you will see that the costs
per capita for 1867, upon an average Of
s. pupils is S277 Oh, and for the year
1875, upon an average of O5 pupils, is
$3.50 y, And even this calculation in
cludes several items which might with
propriety be charged to extraordinary ex-
penses.
Are you not also in error in charging
that it costs more to educate pupils at
Romrey than in Virginia or North Caro-
lima? By reference to the last report OF
the Virginia Institution you will see that
for the year lS77-S, the current expenses
Of that Institution was 1882 81, with an
actual attendance OF 100 pupils, while the
West Virginia Institution with an actual
attendance OF 95 only spent 81, 538 0S in
all. Virginia paid during that time SILL
745 for salaries, while West Virginia paid
SS,39l %. So it IS believed that upon
fair comparison OF the two institutions
that tho West Virginia Institution costs
much less. The reports of the North
Carolina Institution do not furnish the
necessary data with which to make COM
parison.
The Board repealed the order permitting
pupils from other States to enter the in.
Stitutton by paying $500 per session and
fixing the sum Rt 1900. This rate was
fixed by the first Board OF Regents. No
persons has ever been admitted under il.
Its hoped that the answers given by the
Board to the questions propounded By you
will be satisfactory, and that the lnRtitl.
ton may continue prosperous and useful.
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