Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-06
Republican Contestants Seated
by the House.
Insane Hospitals Asks for About
$500, 1000 for Each Year.
Question of Resubmission Discussed
in the Afternoon.

discussion, and the result was a COM
plete victory for Stephen ]. Kelley,
George b. Haskell and Jacob r. Little,
the Republican candidates. The House
voted rs to 81 in favor of the minority
report, which seats the above gentle
men as the representatives from the
city of Lewiston.
Representatives Weatherbee of
Lincoln, Abbott of Shapleigh, Potter
of Brunswick, and Libby of Mechanic
Falls, spoke for the minority report
and Representatives Morey of Lewis
Saco, and Littlefeld of Rockland, sup
ported the report of the majority of
the committee on elections.
AS soon as the speaking was over
and the yeas and nays were called,
the following resolution was adopt
ed:
Resolved, That it is the judgement
of this House that Alonzo NJ Garcelon,
Frank A. Morey and Michael A. Coyne,
who were given certificates of election
as representatives from the city of
Lewiston to the seventy first Legis-
lature of Maine. not having received
a plurality of all the legal votes cast
and given in the last September cleo
ton, in said city, as representatives
to said Legislature, are not entitled
to and shall no longer sit in this House
as representatives of said city,
Resolved, That it is the judgement
of this House that George B. Haskell,
Jacob R. Little and Stephen J. Kelley.
received a plurality of all the votes
| legally cast and given in at the asst
| September election in Lewiston, Maine,
as representatives from said city to
| the seventy-first Legislature of Maine,
and are entitled to membership in this
House as representatives from said
city, and to the seats recently occu-
pied by AlonZO M Garcelon, Frank A.
Morey and Michael A. Coyne.
In the Senate, yesterday morning,
Senator Manley introduced a resolve
| in favor of the Maine Insane Hospital,
which called for $67 PISA for the year
| 1903 and $4,000 for 1904, and Senator
Stetson of Penobscot, presented a re-
solve for the Eastern Maine Insane
Hospital at Bangor. This resolve calls
for $45,225 for each of the years 1908
and 1904.
A statement of facts accompanied
lHC iCoOiFC III lcNOI VI Tic aug uSld
hospital as follows:
There is a pressing need for more
room for accommodations for the in
sane of our State. Both hospitals are
overcrowded and the necessity for more
room is apparent to all. The State
has established the policy of renovat-
ing the old wings of the Maine Insane
Hospital as rapidly as possible, and
there has been an understanding for
many years, that, when the hospital
should be relieved by the completion
of the Eastern Maine Insane Hospital,
and the removal of patients to that
institution, the work could be carried
on to best advantage. The renovation
of the second wing on the male and
on the female side of the hospital, will
furnish Accommodations for sixty four
more patients than can at present be
Accommodated. These wings have been
in continual use for more than fifty
years, and are in very bad condition.
They are not properly heated nor VEN
| tilated, and are not fire proof. The
estimate of the architect is that it will
| require the use of $45,000.0O to reno
| vate each wing, make it fire-proof,
and furnish it with proper heating and
ventilation system.
For many years the hospital has
been disappearing, except that ap-
preparations have been made for build
| ing purposes. The decrease of in
| come caused by the removal of one
hundred and forty-five patients to the
Eastern Maine Insane Hospital nearly
| two years ago, accompanied with the
~f ls,vt, Al
| fact that the, price of board has not
| been increased, together with an I'M
usual amount of repairs and improve
mentS, which have been necessary dur
| ing the past two years, in order to keep
! the hospital in a proper state of eff
| fciency, leaves the institution at the
present time with a capital materially
| decreased from two years ago. In adj
dition to these items the expense of
| $i,5S6.69 has been paid to complete the
renovation of the wing, authorized by
the Legislature. This added expendi-
| ture was rendered necessary by the
| increase of the cost of building ma
terial after the estimates of the archi-
| tect, upon which the Legislature re-
| lied for making the appropriation. We're
made.
| If the institution could be supplied
with sufficient funds to meet it's bills
promptly and take advantage of dis
counts it would save several thousand
dollars each year. At present. it is
| obliged to purchase supplies on at
| least ninety days time.
For these reasons, the attached re-
solve asks for 67,217.S4 for the year
| 1903 and $4,000 for the year 1904 in
order that the hospital may be re-
imbursed for extraordinary and I'M
usual expenditures made during the
past year, and to provide for renovat-
ing the second wing on each side of the
hospital.
An itemized statement of the ex-
penditures already made, and those
which are contemplated are as fol-
lows:
To complete the reconstruction
of the several wings of the
stone building 500, 900 90
To reimburse the hospital for ex-
pense in installing Clark auto
matte telephone, 25S5S5
To reimburse the hospital for ex-
pense. extraordinary repairs
and improvements, 1852. So