The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-24

"19 Uh1dir 10 the senator from Rock
TO press the bill before the senate had
received a report on his resolution.
Senator Miller said the senate had
investigated the sites, and the COM
mission, but it had missed the nuh
OF the whole matter, the actual neces-
slty for fourth hospital He was in
Iorlneo that the minority report demon-
strated that the fourth hospital was
not present necessity. In entailing on
the state an expense of a million dol
lars, he thought a real necessity should
be shown.
senator McHale said the change of
front or the Anoka people, had a ten
dency to make him, too, impatient. and
led to suspicion that they were in
sincere. The recent bribery charges
Should be given little credence. on ac-
count of their manner Of presenta-
t1on He had been convinced of the
necessity for a fourth hospital two
years ago: he had voted for it then,
and he had been voting for it whenever
ne had had chance since
senator Cu1kin said that the senator
from Anoka was entitled to a greater
courtesy than was being given himi
the course being pursued by the men
who were trying to hurry through this
bill, would result in great damage to
them hereafter, as we'll as to the party
to which he belonged. The senate had
never before passed upon the PROPOSE
llon 10 locate one insane hospital in
the door-yardS of two Others 1t was
the first time in his memory that a
senate of Minnesota had ignored fiat
and open charges of bribery, giving
names and dates, persons and places.
Hrlbery was sapping the foundations
OF the government. The senate had
been asked to move the asylum from
AnOka because the mere suspicion of
dlshOnor had attached to one man. and
now it was asked to give that same
asylum to Hastings in the face of the
open charge of bribery. why" he
exclaimed in impassioned accents,
draw the curtain over crime? Why
let partisan prejudice or the favor of
locality blind our eyes to the truth?
II criminality exists, let us find it out"
But there were other reasons. he said.
why the bill should not pass 1t had
been represented to the senate that the
state was to receive a certain water
power on the north side of the Yer
million, but this tract he could not
IND described in the bill He sent up
TWO amendments to the bill one free
ing the location commission from any
imputation of bad faith, the other re-
duc!ng the price to be paid for the
Hastings site from $4,000 to $1,000.
He alluded again to the geographical
argument, and said that the people of
the Sixth and Seventh districts be-
HeVed that the hospital should be To-
Gated west or northwest of the cities.
1T was a political mistake to slight
this section of the state, especially
after as recently as the morning ses-
sion, sending down into that southern
part of the state, already reeking with
state institutions, an experimental
farm.
Chaska had a fit site which was Offer
ed the state for a dollar, equally well
located with either of the other sites
considered by the commission to locate
the hospitals. He concluded that lobby
ing and not logic was the only apparent
excuse for the Inconsistency of locating
a hospital in one city on the action or
a man who was unfit to locate it some
where else.
He submitted the minority report as
a part of his speech. The Hastings
contingent grumbled but the secretary
was allowed to read the report. Senator
Culkin himself read a statement from
Fergus Falls that the counties of the
state took advantage of slight nervous
disorders to unload large numbers of
the county poor on the state hospitals.
Senator Keller said he would not cry
doodle" as had the senator from
Wright, but if Hopper did not tell
anyone beforehand that he was going
to change his vote, then Alvah East
man was a mind reader and ought to
go on the road. The ST. Cloud papers
had roasted him for voting for Hast
ings, but he would not vote to locate
the poor insane on desert where trees
200 years old were still scrubs They
said keller was drunk" He paid his
compliments to the ex-senator from
Martin, who was printing dirty pieces
about him in his paper.
Senator Sheehan then met Senator
Culkin's tactics by sending TO the desk
the report Of the majority of the COM
mittee on insane hospitals.
He then declared, on information,
that the difference between the two re-
ports was that the majority report was
based on facts, the other on opinion
The one and only object of the Anoka
people, who were behind this minority
report. was that Of delay
Senator Miller, the author Of the res
OlutiOn of inquiry, took umbrage at
this indirect reflection on him and in
sisted that his course in the matter
had been entirely consistent. He cited
the figures in the minority report to
show that the elimination of the sane
and inebriates from the supposed in
sane population would take out 23y,
and would ObViate the necessity for d
fourth hospital at least for the present.
He had read as part of his speech a.
part Of the testimony.
Senator Spencer moved that the COM
mittee rise, and on a division it ap-
peared to be supported by the friends
of Amoka. 1t was lost, however, AMI
Senator Miller's speech was continued.
Senator Miller said the testimony, ne
thought, deserved careful considera-
ton.
Senator Peterson resented Senator
Sheehan's imputation that the major
ity report was not based on the facts
Senator Dunham said he had sat in
his seat ON the senate floor and without
protest and watched a darnnable lobby
of state officials robbing Anoka of that
hospital A member OF the supreme
bench had lobbied for Hastings; the
boiler inspector had chased senators
back and forth between the capitol
and their hotels
Dr. Cole said he had been trying for
a week to convince the other four on
the committee that he was right and
they were wrong, but they were the
most stubborn men he had ever met.
He went through the figures without
apparent prejudice, and concluded that
the chief question was one Of expense.
The fourth hospital was an ultimate
necessity. If the state had the money,