The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-06-16
TIE ". D. ana D. AsYLUM.
ceiling Of the Regents ON the 18th
Sarrs,ItV FoF N satisfactory Report.


THE Il. ID. and II. ASYLUM.
Nre,Inz Of the Regents ON the 18th
NerrS.lty for n satisfactory Report.
lnasmuch as the regular spring or sum-
mCg meeting of the Board of Regents of
the Deaf, Dumb aud Blind Institution at
Romney, set originally for the 4th Of June,
has not 20; been held, and inaslnuch as
only partlA meeting of the Board con-
yeued on the 4th, and inasmuch as an ad-
onrned meeting was called by those then
present for the 10Th, and inasmuch as
thosewho were present on the 4th seemed,
according to an editorial in the Wheeling
R,yiasr, to have found, in the few hours
they were together, everything lHTeIy and
10 have made ont clean bill Of health for
the management without hesitation or
difficulty, We desire again, and for the
third time, to refer to the points touched
upon in our discussion Of the figures pre-
scented in the Superintendent's annual re-
ports lOr several years DacK'
FiSt, we will remark that the meeting
on the 10Th might have been held on the
Nth, and full meeting obtained, had the
member from Mason not persisted in put
ting the State to the expense OF double
mileage by declining to attend said meet
ing. lie aud tho member from KanaWha
werc both in this city after the meeting OF
The lin, and were urged, as we are in
brmCd to attend the meeting called for
the NH, but the former decided to go
homc and thus it will happen that the
State will be compelled to pay large
amount of extra mileage to those two gen.
lIemen at the meeting on the 10th.
Perhaps the member from Mason
thought that nothing more was necessary
liter the short incubation on the case on
the 4th. His report to the Register pro-
nCunces the work finished, and no doubt,
he considers any further examination
entirely superlluous, and therefore prop.
erly the subject for extra mileage.
The member from Mason was, II we mis-.
ake not, one Of the two members OF the
Foard OF Regents who went MS a Commit
Tee to StauntOn, Va, to investigate the
record of the present Principal OF our
West Virginia institution, and on return
Ing reported adversely to him, and voted
steadily against choosing him for his pres
eRt position. Is this notthe case?
Perhaps the gentleman has gone from
one extreme 10 another. Perhaps he was
just as hasty then as he was tho other day
when he presented his complimentary
SertiGcatc to the Rrgi&er. People who do
things with SO much expedition are nat
nraIly nrone to change their opinions,
But without reference to the conclu.
SONS OF those who were present at the
mSeting on the 4th, We desire, in view OF
the called meeting for the 10Th, to submit
a few plain questions to the Board OF Re-
gents. We trust that they will make
some other and more satisfactory answer
than the one made by the member IRON
Mason through the columns ofthe Regiscr.
hepubic will not expect to be put of
'Rith that sort Of report after reading
Captain Wilson's letter aud the comments
'aMhl7e been made upon it. We there
lore sspcctfully ask leave to submit the
ioLoFng questions, and to express the
hope that they will be calmly and thor
OnShly considered:
l. What was the whole number Of pu-
P'IS at The Institution during each of the
years lS76 I,lSi7-S, and 1889?
= What was the highest number pres
"nt at any one time in each OF those yearsH
j. What was the average number pres.
e"t IN eSch Of those years?
l. What vas the whole amount OF
money received in each OF those years
from all sources, viz, from the State, from
Tic counties, from the shops, and from
any other sources, together with the bal
anes ~ on hand at the commencement OF
the year,
D. What was the whole amount OF
'noney expended in each OF those years?
IT, What was the average cost per pupil
I@elch ofthosc years?
l. In what year did the Board Of Re
gents adopt the resolution to receive pu'
ptlsiromo other States at charge $500 pei
aNnum?
s. What was the cost per pupil tina
year?
D. Has the cost per pupil for each of th'
astsix years been greater than it was then
Aso, why"
10. II the reduction OF the number o