The advocate., 1891-02-25

iuabb Mlmhellj WAb NO behblhona bnAou u9-
fore a committee shall be used ln any Grim
inal prosecution against the witness 80 toe-
titying except upon tho charge OF perjury
preferred against tho witness for false testi-
mony In said investigation.
Mr.. Doolittle offered the following
resolution, which, on motion Of Mr.. Rice,
OF Bourbon, was adopted.
TopHKA, February II, 1891,
10 Hon. p. r. Elder and Gentlemen of me House
NJ Representatives.
Whereas, Samuel Gompers, president OF
the American Federation OF Labor, will de-
liver an address In Topeka ON the evening
Of the oath inst, under the auspices Of the
Trades and Labor Assembly; therefore,
Resolved That the sargeant-at-arms be
empowered and is hereby directed TO grant
tho use of Representative Hall TO Mr.. Com
pers and his audience on that occasion.
SAMuELsoN, Secretary
Sixteen bills were passed by the House.
House bill No. 1875, An act to provide
for printing and distributing ballots at
public expense, and to regulate voting
at state and city elections, by G. b,
Smith, was disposed Of in the committee
Of the whole, with the recommendation
that II be passed as amended, and sub
jeCt 10 amendment.
The following bills we're considered In
the committee Of the whole, and recon-
mended for passage:
House bill 6O9, An act relating TO and
concerning irrigation, being a substitute
for House bills Nos l0l, 1913, 124, 173,
100, 1888 and 345, by committee on lrTIga'
tlon, and House bill No, 279, An act CON
Herring upon women the right to vote
and hold office, by soupene.
To the first bill was accorded the
privilege Of any member offering an
amendment on third reading, and the
second one that II be passed as amended.
Saturday, February Al. L. Kirk,
president board Of trustees Of state chart
table institutions and George P. Wash
burn, architect, semitic the House com
munlcation relating to the Hutchinson
retOrmatOFy, from which is the following
OF the title 10 the section Of land owned
by the state at the reformatory, we know
nothing, nor whether a diversion from itl
present use and purpose would work a re-
version TO the former owners.
The land is level, with fair facilities fol
water and sewerage, and without shaded OI
varied surface. railway runs within q
quarter of a mile of the buildings on the
reformatory land, and a Well-populated
cemetery is located on the other side Of the
buildings and within 100 yards Of them
both Of which we consider undesirable ad
iuncts TO an insane asylum.
We carefully inspected the reformatory
buildings, and found them genearlly un
suited for Che care and custody Of the insane
without going into details as to the neces
sary differences in construction Of building
for prison and en- insane asylum, or the
cost and waste In attempting to Conver
these buildings into place for the care o.
tho incurable insane, il is our judgment
that, looked at from an economic anC
financial Wow alone, it would be- wisdom tC
erect an insane asylum proper from the be-
ginning, rather than attempt TO convert The
reformatory buildings into such asylum.
There is as much difference necessarily in
the construction Of an asylum and prison
or reEormatory as there is aud is intended
10 be, as there is difference in the treatment
Of the lunatic and the criminal, MEDICAL!