The Portland daily press., 1895-02-07


where the new hospital could be erected to
the best advantage. It seemed to MIR. Gil.
bert that the argument against the enlarge
ment at Augusta was unsound. So was the
argument of cheaper material at Bangor.
If brick was as much cheaper at Bangor
than at Augusta as the gentleman had
said. then when the Legislature adjourned,
Mr.. Gilbert intended to go into the business
Of buying brick in Bangor and selling it in
Augusta. Mr.. Gilbert urged the members
not to be influenced by oratory and unsouhd
reasoning but to settle the question on Its
merits.
MR.. LITTLEFIELD OF BELFAST
left no doubt of his position as he said in
the first sentence of his remarks that be
favored the Bangor hospital. He voiced the
veiws of the people of the beautiful city OF
Belfast, on the Penobsoot, sister city of
Bangor. All Waldo county shared this view.
Mr.. Littlefeld said that he could not aglee
with the gentleman from Portland, who
said that this would entail on the state
vast expenses in the future. The members
of succeeding legislatures would be men of
intelligence who would see to 1T that the
money OF the state was properly expended.
Then came the voice of Pscataquis,1 Mr..
Parsons who followed. saying that all the
people of his county were in favor of the
hospital at Bangor. Mr.. Parsons said
Governor Cleaves had recommended the
new hospital at Bangor, Henry B. Cleaves,
still patriotic and loyal TO his country as he
was when he faced its enemies rises above
any local feeling and says build another
hospital. That's the kind of a man who
occupies the governors chair.
MAJOR DICKEY
said he was familiar with this hospital
question. because he was in the legislature
before the hospital at Augusta was built.
And the hospital had been a cause of
trouble to. pretty much every legisla-
ture since. If you build hospital at Ban
gor. or at Westbrook or at Fort Kent for
that matter, it cannot be the subject of
greater mismanagement and condemnation
than this one has been. remember when
we had to send for Ruel Williams, who came
before this house. and with tears in his eyes
pleaded that this hospital be not ignored.
But the insane would do stranger and un-
expected things. and you couldn't buy
brains enough for S25oo year to prevent
trouble in such institutions. The argument
that the hospital could be built cheaper at
=
a straw. 1t should be built there to accom-
modate the people of the great eastern
section of the state. Mr.. Dickey SPOKE feel
ingly of the unfortunate insane and
urged that they should be generously
treated. He was loudly applauded when he
resumed his seat.
MIR. LAWRENCE OF LUBEC.
said that as man from the eastern section
of the state. he wanted to say that he
represented people who did not favor this
Bangor project. Referring to Col. Plum
mers statement that the Bangor people
had come to Augusta without organiza ton,
Mr.. Lawrence said, that the first Bangor
man he met on his way to Augusta at the
first of the session sat down and argued
with him in favor of this Bangor hospital.
That Showed that they were organized.
This hospital would result in the expendi-
ture of large sums of money until the Ban
gor people had realized their ploudest
ambition and had gotten into the state
treasury and taken out a million dollars to
erect hospital in their beautiful city. Mr..
Lawrence read letter from an Augusta
builder denying that buildings could be
erected cheaper in Bangor than in Augusta.
Coal, he admitted. was cheaper in Bangor.
but it would cost thousands more to keep
the patients warm in a new hospital than
an equal number of additional patients in
an enlargement of the Augusta plant. Mr..
Lawrence did not think the estimates of
architects on buildings amounted to much.
They figured on the Job just as Bangor did,
MIR. NOBLE OF LEWISTON.
advocated the new hospital because the
majority of the committee and the governor
believed in it. and he believed their lead
could be safely followed. He did not under
stand why Kennebec should be hostile to
Penobscot and AIoostook in this matter, as
there was time when those northern
counties had proved loyal friends of Ken
nebec by preventing the removal of the
capital to Portland.
Mr.. aegean of Van Buren,, helped Bangor
out in a speech which made considerable
fun. He suggested il this was to be ques-
tion of.simply shsltering the insane That some
of them might be put in that $4,000 piggery.
and said that this was the first time that he
had ever known Augusta to desire economy.
The vote was then taken, resulting 1c2 to
40 in favor Of Bangor. Mr.. Whelden OF
Portland was the only member of the dele
CATION to vote against the resolve. Mr..
Hill was-not present. The vote in detail is
as follows: sss,
Those voting in favor of the erection of
the new hospital at Bangor were Messrs.
Abbott. Babcock, Bagnall. Bailey of White
field. Barrett. Barton. Bashford, Bennett,
Berry. Bishop, Bixby, Black, Boynton.
Briggs. Burns. Gates, Chace, Clark of
Hollis. Clark Of Naples, Coffin, Cole,
Cousins. Crockett. Daggett. Daigle. Dickey.
Dole, Doten. Doyle. Dudley. Drummer. Fair
banks. Farrow. Floyd. Folsom, Friend, Fu1-
bish, Gilbert of Canton. Grindle, Grose.
Haines, Hamilton. Hisceck, Hooper, Howe,
Halves. Hutchinson jennings. Jones. Of
Rowland. Kane .KeegaI, Kingman. Knowl-
ton, lane, Larrabee, Law, Lawrence of
North Yarmouth. Leighton, Libby Of Chester.
Libby = of Durham. Littlefield, Lombard.
Longley, Mccullough, Merrill, Miles. Millett,
Moore of Deering. Moore of Gouldsboro,
Niles, Noble, Packard. Parkhurst, Parsons.
Peaslee of Wiscassst. Peasle of Jonesport,
Pinkham. Plummer, Reynolds, Rich, Robin
Son. Rodick. Rollins, Ross. Rowell, Sawyer
of Millbridge, Shea, Smith of Hodgdon,
Smith of Marion, Shell, Sprague. league,
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