The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-02-03
THE WAY is UNDECIDED
ANNEXES NAY BE BUILT AT THE
WHITE AND COLORED
ASYLUMS.
SUBCOMMITTEE Daaf ING The PROVISION
The Bill to Domesticate Foreign Cooperation
Passes the Senate Without Debate
and With no Dissent
ing Vote.

The Senate on yesterday passed the
bill to compel foreign corporations do
ing business in this State to take out
license and be Incorporated in the State
The bill was passed without debate, sew
eral Senators merely explaining that
they voted for the measure because they
considered it fair and equitable and not
because of any hostility to corporations.
There was no dissenting vote.
The debate on the question as to what
disposition should be made of the dan
gerous insane was the hottest of the
session perhaps and there was a good
deal of striking straight from the shout
der on both sides, though the debate
was by no means ill-temoered. t is
expected that the subcommittee an
pointed to draft a substitute for section
GO as to the criminal and dangerous in
sane will be able to draft one that will
meet the views of the Senators and that
the whole bill will be finished in com
mittee of the whole today or tomorrow
If the substitute shall be ready
It was practically decided yesterday
that the criminal insane and the insane
who are dangerous shall be separately
cared for, the former at the penitentiary,
the latter at some place to be decided
upon.
At noon the Senate went into commit
tee of the whole to consider the bill to
codify the insanity laws of the State.
Senator Daniels took the floor and OPP
posed putting the criminal and dangerous
insane together in the building at the
penitentiary. He thought that the peo-
pie of the State would resent such treat
ment. and he did not believe that the
dangerous insane would get the same
treatment as at one of the asylums.
Senator Mason wished to know how
long man sent to the criminal insane
ward of the penitentiary from an asy-
lum would have to remain. He was
opposed to giving the insane fewer safe
guards than the sane.
Senator Brown declared that he be-
lieyed the bill was drawn to enable asy-
lllm superintendent to get rid of dan
gerous patients. He would not oppose
striking out the whole section. he
thought the central prison should be
emptied of conyicts and he proposed to
ask later that they be sent to tie
farms, where they belong, that the cen
trail prison might be used for other pur-
poses.
Senator Fields asked for the distinc-
ton between dangerous and criminal
insane. He thought the dangerous in
sane should be kept in the asylums. If
any dangerous insane are now at the
penitentiary they should be sent back to
the asylums.
Senator Cooley declared that he
would hire guard to sit up with any
relative of his day and night before he
would allow him to be sent to the peni-
Tertiary. He would vote against any
bill that put the two classes together.
If there is no place at the hospitals for
the dangerous insane he was in favor
of erecting Il building.
Senator Brown said that to-day the
insane at the penitentiary are under
prison authorities. He thought that the
insane at the prison should be under the
absolute control of the asylum board.
Senator Butler was opposed to putting
the criminal and dangerous insane to
gether He did not think the State was
justified iii making such an arrange
ment.
Senator Glenn said it would take fifty
or sixty thousand dollars to prepare q
place for the dangerous insane.
Senator Daniels said there were twelve
rooms in the hospital at Morganton SET
apart for the inebriates. He had more
sympathy for the good woman of North
Carolina who was compelled to be placed
in the same ward with the penitentiary
woman who steps from the penitentiary
than be had for the drunkard. 1t was
not matter of dollars and cents.
Senator Glenn denied that he had re
garded it as matter of money. lie
would go as far as any one to keep any
shame from any man or woman of the
State. The rooms for inebriates at thC
asylums were not suitable to the care OF
dangerous insane.
Senator Speight said that there were
two sides to the question from the point
of view of sympathy. Those who drew
the bill had thought that more sympathy
was due to the innocent insane who were
endangered by the homicidal insane than
to the latter.
Senator Hicks thought that n small
building could be erected at one of the
asylums for much less than $50, 900 he
thought that building could be built
for $500 sufficient for all the dan
gerous insane He favored building an
addition TO the white and colored insane
at the white and celored asylums.
Senator Justice said that he thought
the whole matter could be compromised.
Senator Daniels insisted that the
word dangerous he stricken from
the sections assigning patients TO the
building at the penitentiary. The mo
ton prevailed and only the criminal in.
sane were left in those sections
Committee rose after appointing Sena-
tors Hicks, Travis, Speight and Daniels
TO draft n substitute for section GO Of
amendments and report as early az nos
sible.
NEW BILLS REFERRED.