St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-30
WHY THEY KICK.
How the Faribauit Institutions
Were Made Wrathy.

1t is peculiarly gratifying TO the
GLOBE to see the daily press of the Twin
Cities wear themselves out ever the
board of charities and corrections re-
port on the Faribault institutions. It
was the GLOBE who first discovered that
such report had been made; it was
the GLOBE which first requested Seere-
tary Hart to give 1t up: it was at the in
stigatien OF the GLOBE that the resolu-
ton was Introduced into the house
which made this report public. and it
was the GLOBE which over month ago
gave the most of this report. The
reason for all this lay in the fact that
there has been a persistent fight be-
tween the Faribault institutions and the
charity board which led to the board
saying in its last report:
I'VE recommend that it be provided
by law that no board of trustees of any
state correctional or charitable inStitu-
ton shall have majority of its MEN,
DerS resident III The county where any
one Institution under their charge is
located.
1.-The state board of corrections and
charities respectfully recommends that
the school for the feeble-minded chill
dren be placed under a separate man
deaf and blind. and that there be a
board of five directors to control the
schools for the deaf and blind, and a
board of five directors to control the
school for the feeble-minded.
The reasons for the proposed change
are several. This board has elsewhere
recommended legislation providing that
in no case shall a majority of the board
OF management OF any state Institution
reside in the county where the inStitu-
ton is located. -Four OF the directors of
the Minnesota institute for detectives
are residents of Rice county. These
gentlemen, from their long service in
this capacity, have acquired experience
which is exceedingly valuable to the
state. The proposed change would
admit of the continuance of all
of these members upon one or the
other of the two boards. In the second
place, the school for the feeble-minded
belongs to different class of institu-
tons from the other two schools. The
schools for the deaf and blind are dis
tinctively educational in their purpose,
while the school for the teeble-minded
is distinctively charitable. The scale of
expenditure and the details differ very
widely. The tendency of associating
this Institution under one management
in the past has been to increase the ex-
penSe for the feeble-minded ap-
proximately TO that of the other two
schools. La the third place. with the
rapid growth Of the school for the
Predetermined, the work of managing
the three institutions has reached a
point where it is burdensome upon an
unpaid board of directors. There is an
immense amount of detail work which
requires a great deal of time and atten-
ton. In the fourth place, it is believed
that there will be gain in having an
Increased number of citizens of the
state who shall be intimately familiar
with the workings of these Institutions,
and that thus the state will be profted
by the proposed change"
These recommendations ere signed by
A. r. MeGill, ID. C. Bell. S. q. Smith,
G. Vivian. Henry r. Wells, John w.
Willis. They made these recommended
tons upon the report made by Secre-
tary Hart, which they officially in
dorsed, and which was made under their
authority. Inasmuch as the state in
situations are the most expensive burden
now borne by the state, and there has
been great necessity for the legislature
cutting down their eX0rbitant demands;
and since of the s., 352, S52 asked for by
them, the Faribault institutions de-
manded 1885,, 000 and did not get it, the
animuS of the attack upon the state
board of charities {the only supervisory
power now ovnr the state Institutions
can be easily guessed. 1t will be inter
esting to observe if the attack is carried
to the threatened point of reducing the
salary of Mr.. Hart, or cutting off the
necessary appropriations for the main
tenance of this board.