Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-07
INSANE ASYLUM.
The Annual Matter-of-Form Visitation by
the Legislative Committees and Curious
Members-Incidents of the Trip and the
Evening in st. Peter-Programme for


Observation-Disclosures of tho Trip and the
Evening in st. Peter-Programme for
To-Day.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
ST. PETER, Feb. 6.-Ihe joint committee on
hospital for the insane arrived here from St.
Paul at 1929 clock this evening. The COM
mittee was accompanied by three members
from the Senate and forty members from the
House, making total of forty-three visitors.
The only absentee from the committee is Sena-
tor Wedge, who is engaged in the State prison
investigation.
hIR. LOREN FLETCHER,
one of the trustees of the asylum,
joined the party ut Merriam Junction.
The committee is also accompanied by the
Governors private secretary, Mr.. Pennock
Pussy. The utmost good feeling prevailed en-
route, the members being mostly engaged in
discussing matters appertaining to the politi-
cal welfare of the State, while several socially
inclined members relieved the monotony of
the journey by
PRIVATE GAMES OF EUcERE,
A rather good joke was going the rounds of
toe train to the effect that certain legislative
wags had threatened to remain in St. Paul dur
ing the absence of the committee, for the pur-
pose OF constituting quorum, in order to
were absent, which had the effect to keep sew
| eral members DESTROYS of visiting St. Peter at
home. Upon
ARRIVING AT ST. PETER,
the visitors were conveyed by carriages in
waiting to the hotel, where the descent was
likened to the onslaught of the pestiferous
grasshoppers. Owing to the lateness of the
hour it was impossible to proceed to the trans
action Of business. consideration of which was
n limo Siv ctr,np RI to- Tbo
large number OF visitors taxed the utmost re-
sources of all the hotels in town, and it was
fully 10 P. NJ before the vacuum in the
REPRESENTATIVE STOMACH
had been satisfactorily replenished. At 0
o'clock the committee proper, together with
President Brown, Rev. DR.. Kerr and Trustee
Schimmel of the asylum, ad journed to the par
lor of the hotel to arrange the
PROGRAMME FOR TOMORROW.
| 1t decided that the visitors should break
fast at s clock, Immediately after which they
will be conveyed to the hospital, where a thor
| ough ms pection will be made. At IL o'clock
the committee will hold a private conference
with the trustees, following which the party
will return for dinner.
| Nearly all Of the members not on the COM
mittee will return to st. Paul to- morrow, tax
| ing the train which passes through here at
l p. NJ.
| THE COMMITTEE PROPER
will proceed to Rochester tomorrow afternoon
on the O'CLOCK train. During a conversation
at the hotel tonight, one member made tho re-
mark that the committee should not look at
things as they appeared on the surface at the
hospital. but they should make such an inves-
tigation as would reveal the nature of things
as they really existed. Beneath the outward
polish existed sepulchre whited with worse
| than
DEAD MEMS BONES.
They should visit the hideous dungeons of
the institution and hear the shreks of the
worse than buried maniacs. 1t is but Justice
to state. however, that as all insane asylums
necessarily have to keep places of close conf ne
ment for unmanageabie patients. the sugges
ton may be very harmless one and was mere
~ conveyed as an exaggerated figure of speech
THE VISITORS
variously passed the evening, each individual
having to depend upon his own resources fo1
amusement, the majority seeking an early
couch, however, in order to be ready for thu
mornings business.