The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-03
Bangor's Hospital Bill Defeated in
the Senate.
THE WARD LINE BILL PUT OVER
FOR A DAY.
The Bangor Men as Mad as Hatters-The
Druggists Bill Assigned for Next
Thursday-Other Business.
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AUGUSTA, March 2.--The redistricting
bill passed the House this morning, but
failed to pass the Senate. 1t came into
the upper branch in the midst of the
debate on the insane hospital question
and Mr.. Thatcher at once objected to its
passage out of order. 1t will come up
in regular order and pass tomorrow.
When the bill came up in the House on
it's passage to be enacted, Chief of Staff
Parker of the filibusters, led forlorn
hope against it. He moved that it be in
definitely postponed and the House
laughed. Mr.. Parker explained that he
did not want to make useless opposition
beyond placing himself on record as OPP
posed to this partisan measure.
The motion to indefinitely postpone
Mr.. Parker called for the yeas and
nays anu this is shown by those mem
bers who second the call standing until
they can be counted.
Mr.. Parker rushed alone into the
breach, and as he stood in solitary gran
deur, the House laughed. Then Mr..
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asked that the Speaker should again
state the question, which was done.
This time, Mr.. Parker's prominence was
shared by one other member, and the
House laughed. Mr.. Parker gave it up
and the bill passed to be enacted without
further opposition.
The Bangor Hospital.
The Senate dealt the Bangor hospital
scheme heavy blow this morning by re-
fusing to adopt the majority report of
the committee in it's favor. The Senate,
however, did not adopt the minority re-
port in favor of enlarging the present
hospital and the Bangor contingent does
not give up the battle. The debate
showed that several Senators opposed
both reports, believing that the state
should wait while longer and then build
at Bangor. Governor Cleaves' S commui-
cation was bounced upon by the friends
of the hospital appropriation as being in
tended to affect their case, Mr.. Thatcher
abiding to the message as flag of dis
tress.
The Senate began by re-assigning all
measures assigned for today with the ex-
ceptiou of the insane hospital question.
Senator Mallet was the first speaker
opposing the motion of Mr.. Thatcher
that the Senate concur with the House
in adopting the majority report of the
special committee in favor of the Ban
gor plan. Mr.. Mallet said at the outset
that he was opposed to this. He said
that all admitted that something must be
done to improve upon the state OF affairs
at the hospital at Augusta. Mr.. Mallet
spoke of the advantages of the present
institution, it's location and facilities.
Continuing, he said that he did not want
to be understood as making accusations
against any man, but as chairman OF the
committee, he could not help being
struck by the discrepancy between the
testimony of Superintendent Sanborn.
and the statements of the trustees in
their report. DIR. Sanborn spoke of one
number of patients and the trustees re-
ported another. Why was it?
Senator Wetherbee interposed to say
that Ex-Governor Robbie, one of the trus-
tees, had explained that by the fact that
conditions had changed between the
time of the making of the report and
the time of the hearing.
Mr. Mallet said he was coming to that.
He asked why it was that in order to
make room for patients, apartments
which had been vacant since the epidem-
ic of diphtheria few years ago, were
not used. When contagious diseases had
ragged in private houses they were not
burned down or abandoned. They were
put in shape for use. Why could not the
same be done in the hospital? There
were state prison convicts there who
might'be cared for elsewhere.
The friends of this Bangor hospital
did not wait to consider what might
be done at the present institution. They
wanted hospital in the eastern part of
the state. They said it had been promis-
ed to the eastern part of the state. Men
had been elected to come here and legis-
late for a hospital in the eastern part of
the state. They said that they didn't
care where the hospital was located, but
he ventured to say that should it not be
placed in Bangor half that city would
come down here to endeavor to get it.
Mr.. Mallet argued that the work pro-
posed at Bangor was only the beginning
of long and costly piece of work while
at much less expense ample provision
could be made at the present hospital.
Mr.. Mallet said that it had been said
that it was good politics to build the hos
pital, but he wanted to know what the
members of the Senate had to do with
politics in making appropriations. What
difference did it make whether the Re-
publican party went up or down if they
had to tax the people to death to keep it
up?
Senator Thatcher spoke for the new
hospital. He said that the gentleman
from Cumberland had begun his re-
marks by attacking the statements of SUI
perintendent Sanborn. He claimed that
the discrepancy alluded to by Senator
Mallet was accounted for by an increase
of Is or 16 in the number of patients be-
tween the time of the making
of the reports and the time
when DR.. Sanborn testified. Mr.. Thatch-
er spoke of the crowded condition of the
hospital, and read from a letter from
Lyndon Oaks, one of the trustees, that
it was patent fact that only 500 or 900
patients should be cared under one man
agement. AS to the vacant rooms, Mr..
Thatcher said that all institutions of the
kind reserved certain rooms for nse in
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