The Portland daily press., 1897-02-24


fighting which much money must be ex :
pended. "Some people, said Mr.. Wal
ton, "say that we have spent S175, 600 on
this hospital and that if we do not go
ahead now we will bs losing the interest
on that. Now if we spend $500, COO more
will VIC not loose the interest on that also
and we will not be burdenod with the ex-
pense of running big hospital Mr..
Walton said that no patients were turned
away from the Augusta hospital.
| Mr.. Fogler of Rockland, called atten-
ton to the fact that the report of tho
trustees of the Augusta hospital said the
place was crowded and that he would be
pleased if the gentleman from Skowhe-
gan had in six days since the resolve was
tabled found that the investigation of
years was wrong, and that humanity did
not call for further facilities for caring
for the unfortunate people of the state.
He said that to postpone the question
two years meant that the hospital would
not be ready for patients for four years.
He thought that il there was any neces
sity of providing further for these people
it was burning necessity. Mr.. Fogler
said that the Augusta hospital was not
simply crowded, but was overcrowded,
and that two hundred people were being
lodged in the corridors.
Major Dickey of Fort Kent, spoke in
favor of the resolve.
Mr.. Pattangall of Machias, said the
burden of proof rested on those who
favored the resolve 1t is for them to
prove that additional accommodations
are needed. He said that thirty -four
fewer patients were admitted last year
than the year before. and that the records
would have to be consulted as far back
as 1887 ito find where SO small number
had been admitted as there was last year.
Mr. Pattangall said that he had asked
| DR.. Sanborn If any one had ever been
turned away from the hospital, and had
received his assurance that all had been
taken who went there. Therefore he
thought that it was not a question of in.
creased accommodation for the insane.
| but question as to whether such a large
sum Of money was to be appropriated for
one institution. He asked that il the
necessity of the hospital could he estab-
lished when it was evident that the
Number of patients was falling off each
year. He said tho gentleman had been
| misinformed regarding people In tine cor
| ridors, and that not two hundred but
| less than twenty vera lodged there. Mr..
Pattangall said that the states income
would be..s3, $50, 600, that the special ap-
preparations in hand amounted to 81, AGO.
| 900, and the regular ones to 81, $50, 200,
leaving only $4,000 for appropriations
now In the hands of committees all of
which may De favorably reported, and
$500, 600 on which they were ready to re-
| port. ALI this money could not be ex-
pended he said, unless it was decided to
raise the tax more than was already con-
templated.
Mr.. Pearl Of Bangor, made plea for
the resolve from humane standpoint.
Mr. Guernsey OF Dover and Mr.. Hawil-
ton of Mattawamkeag, took much the
same stand in favor of the resolve.
Mr.. Stetson of Bangor said the hospital
was not Bangor institution, but state
affair, and that when the legislature
made the first appropriation the members
understood that another one would be
called for this year.
| Mr.. Hamilton Of Biddeford, said he
opposed the resolve. He said: "We ap-
| propriated $175, QUO for this Institution for
/ ~ ~ui%
knowing what the money was going to
be spent for, and we do not know what
it has been spent for. No one told US
what 1t was going to be used for, and
now at this late day statement of facts
have been printed and we are informed
that there has been erected and rooted in
for the benefit Of suffering humanity q
boiler house, an amusement room a
kitchen AND an executive building all
for suffering humanity. When was a
Roy I used to go to church, and once
a man who thought he was called on to
preach chose for his text therefore If
man knows where he is he knows where
he is now." We don't know where we
are. If was going to have barn built
I would want first an estimate of the
cost, and believe that the same rule mp
plies here. II we are to vote away the
peoples money let us do it intelligently.
Why two years from now they would
come here with another report that they
have built shed and rooted 1t in for the
benefit of suffering humanity, and de-
mand another $780,, 900. Mr.. Hamilton
quoted Governor Powers's address about
limiting expenditures and about the ex-
cess of expenditures over the receipts last
year.
| Judge Philbrook of Waterville spoke in
favor of the resolve
| Mr.. Macomber of Augusta called for
the yea and nay vote, and the resolve was
indefinitely postponed by vote of 70 to
Sc.
In voting Mr.. Winslow of Portland
said that he would vote yes OH the
question to postpone, not because he was