Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-11

too mean and too stingy to provide proper
places and proper treatment for these peo-
ple-auth0rize and require them and COM
pei them to dOit. Why, sir, the criminals
Of the state cost us in our county two dol
lars and ten cents 4 week, or thirty cents
per day. aud yet You propose to keep the
insane upon the same, and less for ausht
I know, ON your - business principles. -,
That is all have to say until I come to
the section where I desire to authorize and
require these people that have charge of
them to send them to the proper place.
It is an outrage and it is 4 shame.
Mr.. HOlben.' The cost of the keeping
Of these seems to differ ut different insti-
tutions. Some institutions. l find by the
report of the boarth Of charities, keep them
at q more reasonable figure, and others
charge Il larser sum. find that the state
hospital, ut harrisburg, keeps the insane
at fOnr dollars and forty-ninc cents per
week the Western hospital. at DixmOut
four dollars and thirty five cents per week;
: difference Of few cents. The state hos
pital at Danvilie. three dollars and eighty
two cents. and that OF the Friends asylum
ut Philadelphia, ten dollars and seventy
five cents, quite difference between that
and three dollars and eighty two cents. The
Pennsylvania hospital, ut Philadelphia,
costs eight dollars and forty-seven cents,
and the Philadelphia, hospital two dollars
and three cents. These figures have con
firmed my opinion that two dollars and
fifty cents is not too much, and, therefore,
LIDO not think that this amendment ought
to pass. We might make it three dollars
I think would vote for an amendment
that would make the price not to exceed
three dollars per week, because then these
persons would have some discretion in the
matter, and if they ascertained the fact
that they could afford to keep them ut two
dollars aud lifty cents then they could only
charge that much, and not three dollars.
take up the time of the senator by pro-
longing this discussion, but really do not
feel quite comfortable, after the remarks
made by the senator from Fayette Mr..
Schnatterly] rejecting OH the county Of
Lancaster. II the senator has in his coun-
ty mean set Of cusSes, according to his
OWL statement, then it is his business to
90 out there and lecture on the subject
but say that the remarks made by the
I senate: from Fayette Mr. Schnatterly].
do not apply, in the least degree, to the
people of Lancaster county. l am proud
to be able to say that l represent q
constituency that is too proud. and too
noble. and too high toned to let
any person suffer within the county
Of L3nclctar, and VIC have y Jail
there equal to any penitentiary. and an
insane hospital that is equal, as l said be-
fore to many of the state institutions, and
by strict economy and honest, careful and
| competent management VIC have brought
down the cost of keeping these people
equal to any hospital in Pennsylvania, to
less than two dollars week. l will not
sit here and hear the people of Lancaster
county, who are high-toncd and not
guilty Of these charges. charged with
them.
Mr.. Smith. Will the senator allow him
self to he interrogated
Mr.. Kaufman. Certainly.
Mr. Smith. Is it true, as have heard
it stated that at this institution at Ian
caster they fight chickens in the yard for
the amusement Of the inmates?
Tho further discussion Of the bill was
then postponed.