The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-18
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Be kind enough to explain Items:
"By gas $3.50 80" "by water 1915 81"
"by heating Sl,O04 49," Were these
amounts actually for articles named?
For constructing, heating and water
apparatus, you say. Please explain
why it was not put in the sworn &c
count correctly.
The government only allows $500
each year for construction, and you had
to change or the government would not
allow.
Then it is not wonderful to account
for the government passing favorably
on all accounts and allowing them after
they were .ited before being presented,
and sworn to as correct. You state
that the government officials never took
exceptions to your mode Of conducting
the station or accounts.
viii you please turn to pages l6 and
IL, same book. Please read from page
l6:
"The department Of agriculture sent
Major II. l. Afford as special agent to
attend the meeting Of the board OF re-
gents called for the purpose August IA,
1880"
Now please read on page II from the
resolution OF the board OF regents.
at will be noticed, in accordance
with the advice Of special agent Afford,
of the departmental agricultion, and in
harmony with the experience Of older
stations, and with the practice Of other
stations, u Board has determined to
adopt q different line OF policy from
that upon which the station began its
work, and in future tho funds Of the
station will be devoted more directly to
scientific investigations as provided for
in the frat section OF the Hatch Act"
This is your version is it notP Was not
il a fact that Major Afford read the riot
net to your boards, and threatened il
such expenditures again appeared to
stop the whole appropriations You
state, Mr. Director, that the libraries,
thirteen in number, are all kept in pub
lie places. Please turn to tho bulletin,
page fourteen and fifteen, and tell me
where the third, fourth, sixth and tenth
arc kept. Are they not kept by the
following: third, 2. Hays; fourth, D.
D. johnson; sixth, z. A. Bennett ;tenth,
Thomas ]. Farnsworth?
Has either ono OF these ever all Office
of q public nature?
Yon don't know? Then lot me refresh
your memory.
| have Just returned from a trip
through the state; have asked tho quos.
ton in q number Of districts and not
found one man that knew such q thing
as a public library was in existence.
/ called upon a large audience in
B%uckhannon, where one Of these libra
RIGS is placed in the hands OF Regent
Farnsworth, askingfor any one that had
evcn seen IL to stand up. Not o man
did so. / then asked any n that knew
OF its existence to stand up. No one re-
sponded. At another meeting in the
same district l made the same demand,
when a young man in tho crowd said:
'iWhy, / boarded with Mr.. Farnsworth
for q long timo and always thought II
was private library.
Don't you think, Mr.. Director, 1t ia
about time for not only "the eminent
statesman" but oil she taxpayers in
West Virginia to be heard in this mat
Now. Mr.. Director, didn't you claim
over your own signature to have spent
$500 in fruit tress2
Don't you think II this Twas "a typo.
graphical error in some country news.
paper" l might say almost all Of them,
that you will have some trouble to eS-
plain 70 tho people why you nover cor.
Fected IL until ii began TO hurt?
You will remember / charged that
q sent ali these l,64s trees
and plants to hra men, all NOM
bers Of the Board of RepMh, and they
werc all kept and planted on their otyt
forms. Yon try to leave the Impression
they were distributed, in the following
words: "0n page %, vol. ], station
bulletins, Nj. Campbell could have
found that Mr.. Hays distributed work