The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-12-30

public charity, as certain agency OF moral re
form and undoubted measure of public
economy, the state public school asks for your
generous consideration.
The estimate of appropriation required for the
immediate future of the institution are as fol
lows:
For current expenses balance of fiscal
Year - '-.....-.....-...... SI,OUO
For reimbursement OF citizens of Owa-
tOntia. 3,OOU
For deficiency and incidentals. ......... 5000
Fer current expenses 1855. .......... 1000
For current expenses Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
For new buildings Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
REFORM SCHOOL.
The reform school had under its care, July 81,
l3l inmates. During the two wears there were
committed to the institution l6S, and dis
charged theretrom 90. The expenses eff main
tenance We're $40, i6Go3 for 1880 and t3 :, :
I6i.62 for $50, as appears from :he report OF
the board OF managers. Forty Thousand dollars
for expenses and 81. 900 for repairs per annum
are the estimates for the next two years There
il little 20 criticise and much To commend i'll
the management of the institution If it main
tains i'll the future a record consistent with It's
past history, it will not fall short OF a full ac-
compllsnment of Its mission. Additional ac-
commodations are required at this institution
but before approprial ions are made for the Dur-
pose of increasing them. would suggest the
ACCESSIBILITY of a change OF location. The growth
of population in the vicinity of the school has Il
dis.racting influence upon its inmates, which is
likely to develop into a serious hindrance to its
successful management. The property the IN
stitutlOn occupies has become very valuable
and could doubtless be sold for a sum sufficient
to purchase eligible site elsewhere, and erect
thereon suitable buildings sufficient for its use
for several years to come.
INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB, THE
BIIND AND THE FEEBLE-M1NDED.
The administration of that most beneticent
public charity the state institution for defective
children, embracing the schools for the deaf and
dumb, for the blind and for the feeh.e-minded,
is characterized, as heretofore, by ability, eff
cheney aud an intelligent economy. During the
past year there have been III attendance IL Z
pupils i'll the school for the deaf and dumb SO
in hat for the blind, and IS in that for Inc
feeble minded For admission to the latter
there now on file seventy applications i'll
cess OF accommodations furnished by the pres
emf buildings, ana the board or directors the e
fore ask Tor an appropriation for their enlarge
ment. The estimates submitted for further ap-
preparations are as follows:
For construction and furnishing GUS
todlaf buildings, school for feeble
minded -.....,......:.......-. S4o,Uoo
For completion of present building,
laundry. boiler house. steam heating,
etc. Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
For purchase OF land ................... $500
For current expenses. 1SSS ............ 10000
For current expenses, 1889 ............ $4,000
Total .$247. 800
Disbursements ON account of The institute the
past two wears WERE
Additional building, feeble minded $50 900 90
Additional building, deaf and dumb 10000 90
Current expenses, 1855. $500 IS
Current expenses, 1886. 64.6G7 SO
Total .S172,597 So
Full information respecting the organization
nished by the reports of their respective super
intendents and the board Of directors. A con-
tinuance of he liberal policy the state has here
tofore exercised toward this institute believe
to be warranted by the character and the results
OF its work.
INSANE HOSPITALS.
At the end of the last fiscal year there were
1,i19 patients under treatment in the two i'll
sane hospitals of the state, S7i at st. Peter and
6O5 at Rochester. an increase Of 2S6 since the
last biennial report OF the trustees There
expended for the maintenance of the insane
1923, 9O5. II in $50 and &22S COG 81 in 1886,
and for new structures and improvements at the
two institutions Sl12,674 Al for the two years.
The estimated requirements for the next BIZ
ennial period follows.
Roches-
st. Peter. ter
New doubled detached ward. ........ $4,000
demonstrating of central
improvements and repairs. s14,5oo 1900
Electric lights. 5000 1900
Current expenses, 1SSS..... 163.SOO 1910
Current expenses, 1889. 80. 1861 500 1911 40
Total. s347, 100 1896, $50
The extension contemplated in these esti-
mates will give maximum capacity for the
care of 1000 patients. sufficient to meet prob
able requirements for three years to come. 1t is
assumed that the third hospital the location of
which is provided for in chapter 16l of the
General Laws of 1885, will be available for
cupancy i'll part by the time this class of popu-
lation shall exceed the number stated.
The capacity of the state prison has been
larged since SS5 by the addition of $50 cells,
at a cost OF $4,000. It now affords rccommo-
dation for 600 inmates. The population of the
institution numbered 1856 at the date OF the in
spectors' report July 81. 1856, which has been
increased to 4O7 since that time.
The current expenses were $65,01S.30 in
A~,Id 1l&l,,o ~;,,,.,,
$43, 179.7 "a and $47.472.6O for the same years
respectively. The net per capita cost of main
tanning the convicts has been reduced from
500. 70 in 1881 to $40. SO in 1856.
The estimates of the warden for two years to
come are: Expenses, $4,000 and $4,000:
earnings, $4,000 and $4,000. An inventory
shows total investment of 5000. 312 16, not
including $53 900 net loss by the fire of Janu-
ary. 1884 The inspectors report the "institu-
ton out of debt, with no deficiency or special
appropriation to be asked for"
The present capacity of the prison will proba
bly, be sufficient to meet the requirements OF the
provided in the second state prison contemplat-
ed bv chapter 157 OF the General Laws OF 1885.
believe it to be the sentiment Of the people
OF the state that the new prison should bear the
character of a reformatory rather than of
prison proper. large proportion of the inmates
OF our prison are young men sentenced for their
first offense and serving short terms. They do
not belong to the criminal classes. They are not
welded to evil ways, and are susceptible to in
fuences that would win them back to an honest
course of life. Their association with profess
SIGNALS and incorrigibles in prison, aud the stig
ma that follows taem when DISCHARGED. influence
for evil their after life. If committed to a re-
forInatory, where their surroundings would sug-
gest purpose to reform as well as to punish
them, and where their term of service would b
made dependent on their good conduct and
manifest disposition to abandon evil ways, it
would stimulate the better instincts of their
nature, and they would go forth again among
their felow-men hopeful and determined,
rather than despairing and reckless.
An adoption of this policy would involve such
notifications in the penal code would per-
nit indeterminate sentences. and provide for
conditional discharges from the institution. It
mas been tried in other states with most crafty
ing results.
SOLDIERS HOME.
The Minnesota department of the Grand Army
of the Republic at its last annual encamp.lent
appointed a committee to present to your body
the subject OF the establishment OF q home for
disabled, INDECENT veterans residing in the
state, and of temporary provision for the re-
lief OF such veterans as might not wish to be-
come occupants of a soldiers home. desire to
supplement the appeal of that committee by the
expression of an earnest hope that the necessary
appropriation will be made by your body to
carry out the objects specified. There is no OBJ
legation more sacred binding upon the peo-
pie of this country than that ample provision
should be made for the care and comfort in their
declining years of the veterans of the late war,
who from disability or misfortune become needy
dependent. The adiutaut general In his
port cites cases OF disabled soldiers who are now
cared for in some of our county poorhouses.
This is a discredit to the honor and patriotism
OF Minnesota It is unworthy of the proud rec
ord these veterans made for our scate during the
war. The Grand Army Of the Republic ask not
for charity for their comrades, but rather for
the discharge of an obligation the state in
Cured when she sent her sons to the front to
risk their all in defense of the republic. Their
efforts and sacrifices secured to the country that
peace and prosperity which is the present heri-
tage of all, and the obligation Is ours that in
m n m Tn an II
fullest measure that their services remem-
bered with gratitude by their countrymen The