Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-02-12
THE NATIONAL sAS1rAR1uM
Bill Approprinting $15O.OOO for Its Con-
structiOn Passes the Senate.


The people of Hot Springs were very
much gratified to read in the Washing
ton news reports last Monday that the
bill introduced by Senator Pettigrew
last spring for the location and con-
struction at Hot Springs of national
sanitarium for invalid and disabled
soldiers had passed the senate. Some
action upon the measure has been
vainly watched for day after day and
month after month. and it was with no
little satisfaction that the success of
the bill in the senate was received, and
though late in the session-perhaps so
late that it will be difficult to get it
through the house Senator Pettigrew
bns the sincere thanks of the Hot
Springs people for his good work in
this. Some good, hard hustling will
now have to be done in the house to
get the bill passed.
PUBLIC MEETING HELD.
Realizing that our representatives in
the lower house will be overwhelmed
with work during the closing days of
the session. and will have many mat
tiers ofjmportancet to their constituents
i'll various parts of the state, a meeting
of the citizens of Hot Springs was
called at the city hall on Tuesday af-
ternoon at two o'clock to consider
what action, if any, would he best for
the city to take toward aiding in the
passage of tho sanitarium bill in the
house. There was a large attendance
of representative men of the city.
Maj. Anderson was chosen chairman
and Capt. Phillips secretary. The OBJ
ject of the meeting was explained, and
how our citizens could proceed to be
helpful in furthering the passage of
the sanitarium bill was discussed.
1t was finally resolved to be the
sense of the meeting that Capt. Lucas
be chosen to proceed to Washington
and lend his assistance in helping to
pass the bill through the house.
Capt. Lucas was called upon for re-
marks upon the pending bill, and gave
an interesting history of what had been
done toward locating the institution
here, of the staunch friends our city
had in public life and how they would
do all they could towards securing the
passage of the bill; how they helped
from the very day of the inception of
the idea of Il national sanitarium here.
when he introduced the bill originally
in congress, and of the numerous tests
of these waters, climatic comparison.
ETC., that had all been crelitable to
Hot Springs. He thought we had no
competition, as IL location, but that the
cry of ECONOMY" would be urged by
some against it, and that it had many
ups and downs to contend with during
the short time remaining of the ses-
sion. But this measure is different
from those appropriations for postof-
flee buildings and ths like, for there
are thousands of old soldies who are in
need of an institution of this kind,
and as the national bones are now
overcrowed, the removal of the inva-
lids therefrom would make room for
the great army that seeks admission.
The Captain is enthusiastic over the
national sanitarium and accepted the
decision of the meeting in sending him
to Washington to work in the interest
of the bill.
\ committee of five was chosen as an
executive committee, to have full
charge of all that pertains to advanc-
ing the interests of the sanitarium bill
The committee is as follows: H. j.
Curtiss. DR.. Hargens. L. S. Gull, Cham
bers Kellar and A. S. Stewart.
y fund was subscribed to go toward
defraying Capt. Lucas expenses to
Washington.
The meeting possessed the old time
spirit of enterprise and faith for which
Hot Springs has become famous. 1t
was good thing, did the right thing
and its labors will bring forth fruit.
| THE SANITARIUM BILL.
The following is the full text of the
bill locating the sanitarium at this
place:
Be it enacted by the senate and
house of representatives of the United
States of America in congress assem-
bled: That one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars be, and the same is
hereby appropriated for the erection of
the northern branch of the national
home for disabled volunteer soldiers,
at Hot Springs in the state of
South Dakota, which shall be erected
by and under the direction of the
board of managers of the National
Home for Disabled Volunteer Sol
diers' which branch home when
in condition to receive members,
shall be subject to such rules, regula-
tions and restrictions as shall be pro-
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