Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-28
GLOBE COMMITTEE.
CONTINUES TO INVESTIGATE THE
INSANE ASYLUM
what lie Gathers From Outside Sources
how the Asylum Runs Everything, In
Guiding Politics and Religion--New York
Proposes to Investigate.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.

mas settled down to its usual quiet, and to-day
st. Peter is solcmnly dull, the only lively,
busting, loquacious man to be met
with, is the irrepressible, congenial
John, but as he formerly was
u newspaper man, it is hard for him to get out
of his old habits. OF course, there is still a
little ripple upon the surface of society, as
there always is after some unusual convulsion
even upon the smallest pond, and Of course,
those little, short, crispy waves, which agitate
the Silly waters, are caused by the immense
stone-the Senate committee--which dropped
SO suddenly among them.
These little, wild waves, are whispering vari-
Gus things. One is, that the committee SO sud
denly determined to return to their several
homes, and the chairman discovered, SO unex-
pectedly, that it was necessary to go to Omaha or
to Hong Kong, because they were disguised with
the whole affair. That in fact the whole thing
had suddenly cola psed-that the bottom had
dropped out-that the committee had found a.
mares nest. But these ripples only affect =
small circe-that circle reached by the p. p.
whose meagre, imperfect and one sided report
has created the impression, The readers of the
GLOBE, however, think very differently. They
zee things as they really are, and watch with
considerable interest the developments and
disclosures to be made by that cnterprising
journals
COMMITTEE OF ONE.
- That committee started out to finish what
the other committee had begun.
Last of all he tried to ascertain how DIR.
Bartlett stood in the estimation of the good
people of st. Peter and he found that gener-
ally he is as a gentleman respected. It's true
he is spoken Of as being somewhat naughty
and overbearing but in any other respect they
have nothing to say but that he is gentleman.
Dr. Bowers IS more congenial and affable, but
too much guided in his outward bearing by the
great autocrat. Mr.. Kerr, outside Of his own
church, is not greatly liked; he is considered
to be too ''Uriah Hecpist," fair and courteous
and a.cauiescing openly, and almost the
those outside the pale of his church. The peo-
pie generally, however, even to his own advis-
ors, think that he showed to very bad advant-
age In his late hostile encounter with the inves-
tigating committee. They are painfully con-
sclous OF the Rev. gentleman's false position,
and they would not care if the position was
the only thing false about the affair as far as
he is concerned.
1t IL pretty generally believed here that the
institution is not managed excellently as
strangers suppose. One gentleman told your
correspondent that not only do they run the
institution as they, please. but they try
AND th a9 tbs run the O., city as WELL
general prosperity of St. Peter, that people are
becoming disgusted and want to leave. More
than one person told your correspondent this
morning that their intention is to get away
from here as soon as they can sell out. At
elections, municipal and State, the hospital
authorities run their ticket and elect their
ticket. Employees are compelled, they say,
to vote as the autocracy directs. With the hos
pital authorities is associated small ring in
the city, and these, combined, rule everywhere;
hence the number of dilapidated, tumble down
looking houses and the general appearance of
depression in the place.
Regarding the meat contract. many persons
have told your correspondent that they have
seen meat go up to the asylum not fit for hu-
man food. One lady said she had seen rotten
meat sent there. former employe confirmed
this and said while he was there things occurred
which required the fullest investigation and
were not noticed.
THE SECRET TESTIMONY.
1t will of course be remembered by the read
ers of the GLOBE that several witnesses testified
before the committee when the public and
the press were excluded. Your correspondent
tried his utmost to get at the information then
given, and has fully succeeded. 1t would
hardly be fair, however, to the employees to
mention their names, but the public are inter-
csted in knowing that the statements against
Belts were pretty generally confirmed by such
evidence. One witness spoke of his overbear-
ing, insolent treatment of other employees, and
Iout,i VI CIIC ptIultItS LII ~ pIcCUy SGu-
orally believed here that DR.. Bowers is making
great mistake in trying to bolster up Belts.
BLEEDING TO DEATH.
In tracing out the circumstances connected
with the death of the who jumped through
saloon window, these facts were gathered:
About ten o'clock at night in the winter, q
man called at the house of Stone Oleson. Stone
had gone to bed and the man tapped at his
window, and being asked what he wanted, he
said he was in search Of a hotel; he was cat
tie dealer, he said, and wanted lodging. Oleson
he would find a hotel. The man left. At
about II o'clock the man was around Judge
Coxs house tapping at the windows and max
ing the same inquiry. From the mans manner
of speech nothing peculiar noticed about
him. From thence he wandered about till he
got into Third street. The night was cold
and the poor, half-frozen man, in desperation,
jumped through the window Of the Union"
saloon into the sitting room, frightening the
landlord, as narrated in yesterdays report,
where he bled to death. Where the story
gathered from reliable people differs from that
told before the committee is. in the time the
man wandering about and the time it took
him to shuttle off this mortal coil. The doctor
said he escaped from the asylum at O clock al
night, and Bauer said he died in a few min
utes while persons who pretend to know say
he was wandering about from 10 o'clock al
night, and that he was left bleeding in the
room at least one hour and half before b,
died.
HUsHINd UP THINGS.
Your correspondent saw the room where the
bloody occurrence took place and he cannot
imagine what the $50 was given for. He would
think that from SIS to Sc, or $40 at the yer,
outside, would more than cover any damag
that had been done.
Not a word was said in the papers about this
and it is singular thing that even the loca
Tribune never contains word Of anyt thing
which transpires in the asylum. An employt
told your correspondent that last white
woman hanged herself, and another killet
herself with piece of glass, and no notice wa
this witness says leave patients too much t
themselves, and there is not the strict atten
tion given to them that is necessary, especial,
in the worst wards. It is the practice, o
rather the rule, employees testified before tn
committee of one, that nothing transpirin
connection with it, shall be talke
about outside. The man who came before tn
committee yesterday to change his statemen
against Belts told your correspondent tina
Belts had been going for him, but when he wa
asked why, instead of taking back what he ha
said, he had not complained of Belts inter
ference with him, and when he was assure
that the committee would have protected hir
from being discharged, he waxed bold and sal
he did not care for Belts anyhow, and he di
not think he would remain much longer undo
his domineering treatment.
Ne,c York Insane 4syIuans Need Invcs
: tigatiay.
n. Y. Herald.
The subject of the Encouragement of I'll
insane asylums of this country, and the crue