Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-07
INSANE ASYLUM.

The Annual NIatter-of-Form Visitation by
the Legislative Committees and Curious
Observation-Disclosures of the Trip and the
To-Day.
Special Telegram to the Globe.
ST. PETER, Feb. 6.-rhe joint committee on
hospital for the insane arrived here from st..
Paul at 1923 o'clock this evening. The COM
mittee was accompanied by three members
from the Senate and forty members from the
House, making a Total of forty-three visitors.
The only absentee from the committee is Sena-
tor Wedge, who is engaged in the State prison
investigation.
MIR. 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
Pusey. 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 CANES OF EUcuRE,
A rather good joke was going the rounds of
the train to the effect that certain legislative
ways had threatened to remain in st. Paul dur
ing the absence of the committee, for the pur-
pose of constituting quorum, in order to
pass favorite bills while the visiting members
were absent, which had the effect to keep sev.
eral members DESTROYS of visiting St. Peter, al
home. Upon
ARRIVING AT ST. PETER,
the visitors were conveyed by carriages in
waiting to the hotel where the descent was
llkened to the onslaught of the pestiferous
Or3SShOnnars- 0Wlnu fn tho 1afanoso of
hour it was impossible to proceed to the trans
action OF business, consideration of which was
unanimously postponed until tomorrow. The
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
o'clock the committee proper, together with
President Brown, Rev. DR.. Kerr and Trustee
Schimmel, of the asylum, adjourned to the par
lor Of the hotel to arrange the
PROGRAMME FOR TOMORROW.
1t was decided that the visitors should break
fast at o'clock, Immediately after which they
will be conveyed to the hospital where thor
ough ms pection will be made. At IL O'Clock
the committee will hold private conferenc,
with the trustees, following which the part,
will return for dinner. 50. :.
Nearly all of the members not on the com
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ing the train which passes through here a
/ P. NJ.
THE COMMITTEE PROPER
will proceed to Rochester tomorrow Afternoon
on the O'CLOCK train. Uurlng conversation
at the hotel tonight, one member made the re
mark that the committee should not look a
things as they appeared on the surface at tn
hospital. but they should make such an inves
tigation az would reveal the nature of thing
as they really existed. Beneath the outward
polish existed sepulchre whited with wors
than
DEAD MEMS BONES.
| They should visit the hideous dungeons O
the institution and hear the shrieks of tn
worse than buried maniacs. It is but justice
to state, however, that ss all insane asylum
necessarily have to keep places of close confne
ment for unmanageabie patients, the sugges
ton may be a very harmless one and was mere
ly conveyed as an exaggerated figure Of speech
THE VISITORS
variously passed the evening, each individual
having to depend upon hia own resources fo
amusement, the majority seeking an earl
couch, however, In order to be ready for tn
mornings business.