Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-01-29
THE STATE SOLDIERS HOME.
Confederate Veterans Memorialize the Legis'
lature-Home Can be Built for 81 5000.

United Confederate Veterans, and the
committee of which he is chairman,
have strongly memorialized the Legisla-,
home for needy and INDECENT Confede-
rate soldiers. The report of the COM
mittee is full and comprehensive and
reads as follows:
To the General Assembly of South
Carolina: The undersigned, a committee
appointed last May by the South Caro-
lima Division, United Confederate Vete-
rams, to memorialize your honorable
body on this subject of providing a Con-
federate home for the care of the needy
and INDECENT Confederate Veterans of
\ South Carolina, respectfully shows that
a resolution was unanimously adopted at
the Convention OF tho South Carolina
Division, United Confederate Veterans,
in May last, asking that such soldiers
home as will properly provide for needy
Confederate Veterans in South Carolina
be established.
They show that soldiers homes have
already been established in the States of
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisi-
ana and Texas, and that the good offices
of those respective States are being sue
cessfully and gratefully dispensed.
They further show, judging from re-
ports from the above mentioned States,
that the number of those who are Gun
questionably victims of the Confederate
service" and have no place in the South
to call home will not probably exceed
three score and ten at the present time.
They also call to your attention that
the per capita expense to be incurred by
the State, to be expended annually for
maintenance, will not likely be more
than $3.50, or say, a total appropriation
for maintenance of about $4,000, and
that the construction Of necessary build
ings will cost about $4,000.
Without desiring to prescribe or die
tate the locationof such soldiers home,
but rather with view of placing before
your body complete plan and succinct
suggestion for your consideration, we
append to this memorial proposition
emanating from the regents of the
South Carolina Hospital for the Insane,
and ask your attention to tho ideas ex-
pressed therein, as well as to certain
plans of buildings submitted.
: 1t is due to the regrents that, in plac-
ing before you their suggestions, they in
: no way expect or wish that the manage
} ment of the said home should have any
sort of connection with the Hospital
under their control, but to be entirely
} separate and distinct.
, They respectfully submit herewith a
prepared bill for your consideration,
with the hope that it will meet with your
approval.
For the proper management of the
proposed soldiers home they request
your honorable body to designate seven
citizens, representing the seven Con-
gressional districts.
They desire also that it should be well
; understood that it is not by any means
their intention to forestall applications
from other towns or cities in the State
Offering their site or location for the
homo.
They wish further to make it known
that in the providing of n soldiers home
for the very INDECENT and needy Confedo.
rates it is not intended to interfere with
or abridge the usual annual appropria-
tons by the State for the benefit of the
pensioners.
CoLUMBIA's BID.
A copy of the proposition submitted
to the Governor by the regents of the
State Hospital for the Insane is attached
and is as follows:
In view of the consideration by tho
1 General Assembly of the advisability of
providing home for Confederate Vete-
rams, the board of regents desire to pre-
sent to your Excellency the practicaL!lity
of using the tract of land, embracing
about fifty acres, upon the Wallace pur-
chase, known as the Bellevue place. 1t
was the many excellencics of this tract
for hospital purposes, in view of future
needs of this institution, which largely
induced the regents five years ago to
recommend to Governor Evans the pur-
chase of tho Wallace property.
Upon this tract could now be begun a
series of permanent buildings, adapted
to all the uses of the Veterans, and in
time they could revert to the regents for
the purposes of this Hospital. BY this
method the Veterans would be given
such buildings as they deserve, since, in
view of the future use of the buildings
the State could well afford to expend a
larger sum upon their construction than
could be done for merely temporary
buildings.
Should such a proposition commend
itself to your Excelency and to the
General Assembly the regents wish it
well understood from the beginning that
the proposed Veterans home on the
Bellevue place should in every way be
separate and distinct from the State
Hospital, and for the furtherance Of this
plan the land could be temporarily trans
ferred to separate board of managers,
with the proviso that it should ulti-
mately revert to our successors in the
regency.
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