The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-19
!. WORK Of THE STATE LEGISLATURE
CRIPPLED CHHDR[N'S
HOME is IN DANGER
Action of Hennepin Delegation
May Block All Legislation
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Friends in the legislature of the
state university are being censured for
| attempting to secure the location in
Minneapolis of the proposed state home
! for INDECENT crippled children.
The children have been treated for
ten years at the st. Paul city and
county hospital under contract with a
committee of the regents of the state
university. The appointment of COM
mission, consisting of DR.. r. o. Earle,
Dr. Arthur Gillette and Stephen Ma
honey, TO investigate the ACCESSIBILITY
of building a state institution in Ram
sey county for the children is proposed
in bill introduced by Senator w. w.
Dunn Of Ramsey in the senate. 1t pass
ed the senate, but when it reached the
house II. b. Undertake, a Hennepin
county member, who represents the
state university district, attempted to
have the bill amended to include Hem
nepin county as eligible for the loca-
ton OF the home if it should be pro-
vided by the legislature two years
hence. The bill has been hung UP in
committee as a result OF his amend
ment, and unless the amendment is
withdrawn there are fears that it will
not pass. Meanwhile the Ramsey and
Hennepin delegations are at outs and
much feeling is being engendered.
Representative Elmer z. Adams of
Fergus Falls, a former member of the
board of regents of the university. is
in charge of the Dunn bill in the house,
and he does not mince matters in
speaking of the attitude Of Representa-
tive Undertake.
HaNHa1&:..~
Il consider that the work of caring
for the INDECENT children by the state
has nothing whatever to do with the
state university" he said yesterday.
1T was extremely impolitic and I'M
diplomatic on the part of Mr. Timber
lake to attempt to amend the bill by
including Hennepin county as eligible
for the location of the home The facts
are that when the original bill was put
through the Legislature some ten years
ago appropriating $1,000 annually for
state care of poor crippled children the
question arose as under what board
,, to place the work 1t was finally de-
cided to turn the matter over to the
board of regents of the state. univer-
sity, not because it was a matter in
which the university had any special
interest or to which il had any ex-
traordinary claim, but simply because
members of the regents had time and
opportunity to supervise the expendi-
ture. The board of regents named
Judge Greenleaf Clark and Judge
Stephen Mahoney, it's two bachelor
members, committee to look after the
matter. They made a contract with
| the city and county hospital at St
| Paul for the rental of ward and there
| the work has remained ever since The
children have been treated free by DR..
Arthur Gillette and other physicians.
| The work has increased until there is a
standing appropriation of $4,000 each
year, and 100 children are now being
treated at the city hospital.
DR.. Gillette is professor of ortho-
pedic surgery at the state university.
He is member of the faculty of the
| university and from this fact and the
supervision of the work by the regents
committee, the effort is being made TO
secure the location of the state home
! at Minneapolis. The children's ward is
no more part of the state university
| than the board of pardons is of the SUI
preme court. The pardoning board in
! Guides judge of the supreme court
| simply because he is supposed to Inn
| part his legal knowledge and expert
ence in criminal law for the benefit of
| the others. The university regents
were placed in charge of this work for
| want of some other proper board In
| which to vest it, With the state uni
versity asking for extraordinary APP
preparations of the legislature this
year it is not in very good taste for its
/! friends TO run in to prevent ST Paul
| from retaining the work which has
been so successfully begun here"
Donate Site
| When the Dunn bill was first intro
duced In the senate it was said that a
wealthy and philanthropic citizen of
st. Paul had offered to donate a site
Tor the state home if it was determined
by the legislature to build it in st.
Paul. DR.. A. B. Ancker and others
connected with DR.. Gillette's work were
loath to have it taken from the city
and county hospital, however, and las
week Representative John F. Selb in
troduced bill In the house authorizing
the city to issue 900 bonds if neces-
sary to purchase additional land TO
! the hospital site for gift to the state
| on which to locate the home for in
digent crippled children.
| The claims of the university people
are that the work is in effect a de-
partment of the state university and il il
is located in a permanent state institu-
| ton in ST. Paul it will be a blow at the
university. Mr.. Timberlake declared
yesterday that prominent citizens of
| his city had determined TO give SOS, 900
for site for the home~if 1t is built in
Minneapolis. Other Henenpin county
members said they had heard of no
such offers
One of the chief claims Of the uni
versity people is that the medical stu-
dents of the university almost daily
visit the cripples' ward at the st. Paul
city hospital for clinical work and that
the journey imposes a hardship on
| them.
1t is urged by some OF the friends OF
the Dunn bill that unless the tactics of
the Hennepin county members are
| dropped there will be no legislation.
| Without legislation the work will be
continued to be done at the ST Paul
| city hospital. -