St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-17
Again the City Council Will
Tackle the New Hospital
Question.
The Question Is, Will BPaZie'S
Narrow Mind Prevail
Once More
Henderson 0utdoeS RienZi
in an Address to the
Police.
HibernianS Elect Officers and
AdjouPn--East Side
crossings.

nt CITY COulCll Will IdNc " ulSCuSS
and act upon the city hospital measure
again tonight. The council is not eX-
pected TO authorize the erection of a
city hospital. Isn't city hospital
| needed? OF course, it is. 1t has been
needed and demanded by every public
officer in a position to appreciate the
need for over two years. Why
is it not erected? Because the city
council Of Minneapolis is controlled by
| parcel of political admirers who can
see no good in the establishment of
public necessities unless established by
officials Ot their own political faith.
Why this is so no one pretends to say.
A man acquainted with the politics in
cities might be able to deduce reason
able conclusions. but the members of
| the Repu. lican majority in the Mime
apoiis city council would not like it.
For over two years the city OF Mime
apOliS has been in need of city hos
pital. In every annual report of the
city physician, in every report of the
healty commissioner. in every report of
! the Superintendent of the poor, the lack
of city hospital fit for the accommoda-
ton of human beings has been men
toned and emphasized. 1t is we'll
known fact that the Minneapolis city
hospital is a disgrace to civilization.
This city, that boasts of its man.
moth blocks, its beautiful buildings
its wide streets, its extensive parks. its
ability to take care of national political
conventions, has no place where the
sick Of the city can be treated as human
beings should be treated. The present
city hospital is too small; it is poorly
| constructed; it is death trap in case of
fire; it is unhealthful. A city hospital
that has been condemned by the health
authorities as unsanitary is something
for city so proud as Minneapolis to
boast of. But that is the fact.
For over two years the question of
building new city hospital has been
agitated. The council committee on
health and hospitals has been urging
that such an institution be erected.
Sites have been under discussion. The
sentiment of the city council in favor of
| building the hospital has BEEN unani-
nous. There was but 0ne bar to the
| erection and equipment of this hospital
the lack of the necessary funds.
A year ago last winter the state legis-
lature authorized the city of Minneap-
| oils to issue bonds for the erection of a
city hospital. That removed the only
bar that up to that time had stood in the
way of supplying the city with, not
luxury, but an absolute necessity. But
| the legislature raised another barrier in
place of the one removed. 1t had no
| better sense than to pass a bill
creating board of corrections
and charities in Minneapolis for
the purpose Of giving the city
chance to have the corrective and char
| liable institutions of the city managed
| IN manner more in accordance with
the best interests of the city. That bill
became a law. Under its provisions
the mayor had the power to appoint the
board. He did so, and appointed a
board composed of gentlemen than
whom none i'll Minneapolis stands
higher as citizen. They are
all clean men of good. records
and their administration OF the affairs
of this board shows that they are work
ing Tor the interest of the city. They
took up the city hospital question where
it had been dropped by the council. be-
| cause the hospital is now under the df-
rectiOn Of this board. For nearly year
they have been working with the cOun-
ell to have the bonds issued
| that the erection of this much
needed institution might be begun.
| But the council won't move. The coun-
Gil is Republican. As it acted in the
matter of authorizing the appropriation
of money for extra police during the
| convention it is acting now. 1t will not
vote money for an institution that will
be looked after by Democratic board,
no matter how much the institution
may be needed and 10 matter how hon
Orable the board may be.
AT the last meeting of the city council
this matter came up. The Republican
majority postponed action on it. The
| proposition to authorize the issuance of
| those city hospital bonds was most
StrenuOusly oppOsed-by whom? BY
one Aid. Brazie.. This man has been
| chairman of the committee on health
and hospitals for several years. In his
| capacity as chairman of that committee
| he has been working all the time for the
! building of a city hOSpital-until the
| board of corrections was created. AS
soon as the "boSSing" of the city hos
| pital was taken from Brazie he be-
| gan to fight an object for which he had
been working for years. He did not adj
vance one argument that should have
weight with right-thinking men. Bra
Zie. as physician. for he practices as
such, knows that a city hospital
is demanded by every argument of
common decency. He has more than
once spoken for the building of one.
He has more than once subjected other
members of the city council to the most
bitter denunciation, because they were
opposed 10 the establishment of a
garbage dump where he wanted one,
and a garbage dump was never needed
One-half so bad as a city hospital is
| needed now. The spectacle OF one
of its members stultifying himself
by opposing what lie had so OFT
| en- advocated should have been
sufficient to make the council smile.
Strange TO say, BraZie found majority
Of that body willing TO join with him in
his naTrOw-minded opposition to a>pub-
lie demand. 10 the credit of some Re-
publicans be il said that few aldermen
of that party voted for the hospital.
The Republican members of the city
council openly admit that the city hos
pital never will be erected with the con-
sent of the Republicans. because it will
be under the management of the board
of corrections aid charities. They ad-
| init this without reservation and ad-
vance no other reason why those bonds
should not be voted. The Republican
papers have, in times past, printed col
! umDS to show why the city should have
new hospital. citing facts
and figures and printing cuts to show
that the present building is disgrace
to the city. They have not word TO
say now, when the movement to erect
city hospital is defeated by few Re-
publicans who look on the most impos-
ing scenes, the most stirring spectacles
and the broadest landscapes through
the large end of the field glass.
But this matter will come up again
tonight, and there will be record of
i the vote.
On this subject Mayor Winston says:
at is downright outrage that this
| matter of a new city hospital is post
| poned from time to time. The old hos
! pital is not fit for occupancy, and should
be closed whether we get the new one
or not. | really cannot understand why
the Republican members of the council
insist or voting down any resolution to
| issue the 81, coo bonds authorized by the
! legislature. They say it is because they
are expecting size, but what difference
can that make, l wonder? They need