Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-13

lion RecommenGed--CO Considerations Urg- |
ed in Favor of the Change---Success OF
the Observation-Disclosures for " hat Of |
lenses from What Counties, Nativity, Etc. /
.--Income and Expenses OF Shops and /
Farm--Value of Personal and Real Prop
erty---Receipts and Disbursements.
The fourteenth, being the second hSsn-
NAL report OF tie M nneso5a State Reform
school for the two fiscal years ending Nov.
80, 1882, was placed in the Aands
of Gov. Hubbard yesterday for trsasmis-
sion to the legislature. The report shows
the management of the school in the hands
of the foMowi4 Board of managers, D.
W. Ingersoll, Geo. L. Otis, VIM. P. Muir
ray and c. H. Petit. Officers of the
board: D. ". iugersesl. president, Geo.
L. Otis vice president. F. Mccormick, $50
retary. Officers of the institution: J. C.
Riheidsfer, superintendent ard j. n.
Brown, assistant. The health Of the m
mates is reported uEsXcep tiGEally good. A
large II ajora4y of the commitments have
able Sy imprisonment. The proportion of
small boys is grs8:er thar usual. about
half ef the present irmates ace too
small 20 perform any renarinerative labor,
to commence the learning; Of trades, OF
even so DE of zach Use in the domestic
services OF the institution.
cTlaEGE III TEE. LAW.
A change IL the law removing the OBJ
jectiens Of co2aty officials OF sending
youth to the Refor Il s59lool is again urged
upon the Legislature. TIE report says
that the nnsnEgers iievang served the STATE
in such position for fourteen years, are
able to Judge dnteISigsntly Of tbs waris Of
the institution in 5his regard, and that
they are convinced uiiat il is so hedgeo
about and limited in its usefulness by that
one feature in the law which provides that
the counties shall pay to the state the ex-
pense Of maintenance of the youth sent
from the n respectively. rs to demand an
early change. T&e act to secure proper
commitz2eHts to the SCHOOL aims mainly
at two ends: Flr5t, to protect the Ill
stitution from beng used as an orphan
asylum, or q poosr house; aslA second, to
secure its support by the counties sending
it inmates. THIS latter provision, il Is
claimed. does great wrong to the institu-
ton. TIE Legislature makes an annual
appro pris lion fs)r its support. The mar
ayers have to make out bills to the coun-
ties for the support OF their inmates.
wls;ch amounts are collected By the state
treasurer. The amount SO colkcted an
nually is about $4,000. The difference is
between collecting the amount directly
fro1G zach coua ties as are represented in
the institution, or raising it in the same
way as tie rest of the revenue for the sup
port OF state institutions is raised.
REASONS FOE THE CHANGE.
The report thus presents the following
considerations ia favor of the change pro-
posed:
l. There are youth inrorrigible and
vicious WHO have not as yet been con-
voted of any crime punishable with i'm
prisonlnent, wao, if left to themselves will
soon became criminals. How .ver DESTROYS
paren5s may be to place them under the
rsstI a nts Of the Reform school, they can
not do SO without written consent of
three county commissioners. This consent
is eluently withheld for no other reason
than to sava the county the expense
that would Ne incurred in case of commit
ment.
2. his prov sion works unequally. We
have good reason to belisve that there are
cases in which charge Of ineo-rigibility
is made out against some very young child
for the purpose of getting him off the
hands of a parent to whom he is an incon-
venience. And if it happens to be case
with which one or more Of the commits
sioners are familiar, and in which their
personal sympathy IS enlisted, they give
their cousent but IN other cases where the
incorrigible is a stranger to the commits
sioners, and although it may be much
more suitable subject, the consent is with
held for the r7ost popular reason to save
expense to the county, and the infant is
left 10 himself to develop into criminal.
3. It has happened for the same reason
that yopths convicted of crime have been
sent to prison for a short time, as few
weeks in jail will not cost so much as a
year Or two in q reform school. The ques-
ton often seems to be not what will reform
and save the BOY. bat what will save the
money.
4. The fast that bill is presented an
n Tally to 9 audited aad paid to the state
)r the su port of inmates in the Reform
school, pi; COS the institution in AL invid-
ious light before every county board so
approached. The whole amount for the
year cones in one bin and although it may
be conlF aratively small, it seems large.
The subject is discussed, the question is
raised whether it is worth while for the
county to pay so much for the keeping of
bad hovs in the Reform school, and the
result is the managers are flooded with
petition for the discharge Of inmates.
For t ssse and other reasons the change
is reco nmended. In opposition, the re-
port says it is urged that the number OF
inmates would be largely increased and the
state burdened with correspondingly
large expense; but it is submitted that
sho i'd this prove to be the case that ths