Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-07

Resolve in favor of the Maine Insane
hospital. Pending the third reading OF
this resolve, Mr. Barrett of Canaan moved
that it lie on the table.
Resolve in favor of cities and towns
where stock of the Dexter & Newport
Railway Co was owned and which have
not received their share of the excise tax.
Resolve authorizing the purchase of a
certain number OF copies of Freeman
Supplement- to the Revised Statutes for
the use Of the State.
Resolve in favor of the hospital of the
society of the Sisters of Charity of Lewis
ton, Maine
Resolve in favor of tho Central Maine
General hospital.
Passed to be Enacted.
An act to leglize the vote of tn, town of
Kttcry to raise money for the purchase
Of the Kittcry Point bridge
An act to fix the salary of the treasurer
of the county Of Aroostook.
An act to amend an act entitled an
act to incorporate the Winterpor5 Water
Co. ess
An act TO extend the charter of the
Oakland Water Co.
An act to legalize and make valid the
meeting and doings of the corporation
known as the trustees of the charity fund
of Trinity Lodge, located at Presque ISLE
county of Aroostook. State of Maine.
An act to amend chapter II of the Pub
lie Laws of 1887, relating to the protec
ton of the alewivc fishery.
An act to incorporate the Washburn
Bridge Co.
An act for the better protection of fish
in Machias bay.
An act to amend the charter of the
Thornton academy.
Finally Passed.
Resolve in favor of the Temporary Home for
Women and Children in Deering.
Resolve in favor of the town of Marion
Orders Of The Day.
Tho special assignment for today was
the majority and minority reports on
Eastern Maine Insane hospital.
Mr.. Plummer Of Dexter said that three
bills calling for appropriations for insane
hospital buildings have been presented to
this Legislature-.one reported by ma
iority of the joint special committee on
Eastern Maine Hospital, appropriating
$50, 900 for new hospital at Bangor
one reported by the committee on insane
hospital appropriating $40, 900 for barn,
piggery, ETC., at the old hospital, aud one
which has the support of a minority of the
joint special committee appropriating
$780, 900 for additional buildings at Au-
gusta for the chronic insane.
During the first three weeks Of this ses-
sion, after the favorable words spoken by
the Governor in his message, only friends
of the new hospital were in evidence; no
opposition raised it's head in any quarter,
and it looked as though the time was ripe
for the passage of the bill to build at Ban
gor without organized opposition and
without fight; and the friends of the
new hospital laid the flattering JUNCTION to
their souls that at last the time had come
when their measure, which was receiving
general active support from all sections of
the State, would even receive the passive
support of its old-time enemies from the
Kennebec.
1t must be confessed, however, that
when on the 22d ult., the bill to build Il
$4,000 barn and $1,000 piggery at the
old hospital was put in, the serenity of
this confidence was slightly disturbed,
and when on the 25th the bill for new
buildings for the chronic insane to be
built at Augusta was introduced, the
blindest and most sanguine friend of the
new hospital could see that some of the
clans Of the Kennebec meant shrewd apd
vigorous fight against the establishment
of a new hospital.
Now one thing and one only is sure in |
this insane hospital matter, and that is
that additional accommodations for the |
insane must be provided for by this Leg
islature. With 1877 unfortunates Sleep |
ing on cots in the present buildings, and |
hundreds more scattered throughout the |
State who are mildly insane and who with |
suitable scientific treatment could in |
many cases be restored to reason, and for
whom there are now no accommodations,
there can be no question of the urgent de-
mand for more room, and If this Legisla
ture should adjourn without providing
for it, it would be the duty of the Cover
nor to call an extra session for such pur-
pose. We must provide for new build
ings, and the question is where? Why
not at Bangor? / hear only one reason
given and that is the expense, aud cxag-
geratcd misstatements are put into cir
culation in regard to this. Let us
examine the matter of expense. First: AS
to the cost of constructing new buildings.
1t is not over-stating the truth to say that
brick buildings can be constructed from
to 10 per cent cheaper at Bangor than at
Augusta. This difference will be found
in the cost of materials. Building brick,
for instance for the wing built at Au-
gusta i'll 1889 cost the State 1916 per
thousand and this year 81. so has been
paid for small lots for repairs, while the
same grade of brick, am informed, can
be furnished at Bangor for 1925 per
thousand; and, gentlemen, the story of
this wing built at Augusta in 1889 does
not harmonize with the fair proposals of