The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-02-05
THE DANGEROUS INSANE
TO BE KEPT IN THE SAME
WARDS AS HERETOFORE.
IS a MAN WITH FISH A CRIMINAL?
A Game Sill that Mould have Made him SO,
but the Senate Made Game of #,
How The Froat Fishing is
Moropozed,
MoEOpoIized,

The Senate after wrestling with it
long and yaliantly got the bill codify-
ing the insanity laws off its hands yes
terday. 1t had been the occasion Of
more talk than any, and perhaps than
all, other measures that have come be-
fore that body during the session. The
Senate at noon went into committee Of
the whole to consider the bill.
The section of the bill that came mn
yesterday was that which provides for
the disposition and care Of the criminal
and dangerous insane. The
subcommittee, which was am
pointed by committee of the whole on
Wednesday to draw a substitute that
should be satisfactory to those holding
diverse views, was submitted and adopt-
ed without debate. 1t directs that the
vacant building at the State Prison shall
be set apart for the use Of the dangerous
insane and cut off from the prison by
walls. The section is as follows:
Section Go. The dangerous insane
shall be cared e" in the wards hitherto
assigned for that purpose under chapter
520, Public Laws OF 1897, and said
wards and such as may hereafter be
attached to them shall be known as The
Hospital for the Dangerous Insane, and
the Board of Directors of the State Hos
pital at Raleigh is given full control and
management OF said hospital and the
said board is hereby granted full au-
thority to enact all such rules and regtl-
lations as may be necessary for the
proper government of said hospital. The
said board as soon as practicable shall
by partitions and walls, separate the
said hospital from the penitentiary. The
board of directors of the penitentiary
shall furnish all labor free of charge and
all material at cost necessary for build
ing said walls and partitions and for
placing the wards and apartments herein
referred to in such condition as the board
of directors of the State hospital at Raj
eigh may i'll their discretion require.
1T is further provided that no insane
persons hereafter admitted to an asy-
lum shall be transferred to the hospital
for the Dangerous Insane"
This, under the circumstances. was
deemed by the Senate the best solution
of the difficulty.
When the committee rose, Chairman
Ward reported the bin as adopted, and
it came mp for consideration in the Sen
ate. Senator Smith renewed his mo-
tion, made in committee of the whole, to
amend the section which provides that
not more than one director shall come
from any county
Senator Osborne favored the motion.
He thought the executive board, which
practically managed the asylums, should
live adjacent TO the institutions, because
Ii was both less extensive and more
convenient
Senator Justice said he should like to
have the reason why two directors shoald
not come from one county 1t had been
so all the while.
Senator Fields asked why they should
not all come from one county. lie
thought the same reason existed 70 not
having more than one from each county
Senator Glenn could not see why the
motion was pressed so persistently.
Senator Smith said the motion had not
been properly understood when made in
committee.
Senator Glenn thought men living in
the same county with the superintendent
We're too liable to come under his inau
ence. AS the executive board OF three
men practically control the Institution
no two members of it should be neigh
bors of the superintendent.
Senator Hicks said that it had been
reported that formerly there had been
some unjust distribution of the patron
age of the asylum Mt Raleigh.
Senator Fields declared that it should
be the policy to leave the directors as
free as possible The pittancc of cost
in bringing the directors together was
not to be compared to the cost that might
arise from other contingencies.
After further debate the previous
question was called, and Senator
Smiths amendment to allow rs many as
two directors to be residents of the same
county was lost. On motion of Senator
Daniels it was ordered that the term
Estate Prison" be substituted for 'peni-
tentiary," wherever the latter occurred
in the bill The bill came up on it's
third readin and was unanimously pass
ed on to the House for the 'considera-
tion of that honorable body"
There was a lively scrimmage over
a game bill. The bill provided that
any one found with game in his possess
sion at season other than that pra-
scribed in the law should be presumed
guilty of a misdemeanor, as should any