The Cairo bulletin., 1907-03-02
WILL IGNORE The
BOARDOF CHARITY
HOUSE APPROPRIATION COMMIT
TEE TO LEARN REAL NEEDS
OF INSTITUTIONS.
WILL SUPPRESS FADS


Springfield ILL.,, March 1-Recom-
mendations by the state board of char
titles as the financial needs of the
istate election mosynary institutions
VII be given but scant consideration
blythe house committee on appropra-
tions, according to gossip curren'
among Republican members Of that
! committee.
/ Instead Of acting on the advice Of
( the state board OF charities, the com
Imirtee will call before it the trustees
and supenn endents Of the various
charitable Institutions and will take
their stimates as the basis Of the ap
Precipitation
The reason 70 this policy is not any
intent to snub the safe board Of char
lities, it is alleged bH the belief on the
part # the committee thai the trrs-
tees and sup rintendents know bet.
ter than the state board the needs of
be Institutions.
The opinion on The par. of many
mombers of the house appropriations
committee has been mad apparent by
iremar6s made by members Of the sub
committees appointed to visit the diff
ferent charitable institutions. 1t has
been discover i by these subcomnit.
tees n their visits to the institutions
that the state board of charities ap-
pears to be in a position 10 know lit
tie or nothing about conditions in the
institution
Rare Visits to institutions,
1t was learned that some Of the in.
suiutions hay not been visited by
even cne member Of the state board
of charities within The last year In
the case Of others one member of the
board paid only short visit to the
Institution.
The law requires the tate board
of charities, o. at least enc of them,
to visit each state charitable and cor
rectonal institutions at least twice In
each year and to visit each city or
county almshouse whsre insane are
kept at least once in each year. and
to report in writing to the leg stature
the result Of such examinations.
In the hearing on the Shurleff anti
clinic re olution on Tuesday. it d vel.
cped that Miss Julia Lathrop was the
only member of the board of charities
who had visited the insane asylum at
Elgin within the last eight months In
view of all this the belief is obtaining
among members of tn app opriations
committee that the state board OF
charities has proceeded along theore-
tical rather than practical lines in
estimating the sums If money requir.
ed by IN different Institutions
Fads to Be Suppressed.
As indicated by some of the ques-
tions pat to DR. Podstata. Or Hirsch,
and others by members Of the COM
mittee. There seems to be an impr ss-
ion in the committee that the state
board Of cha,ities fayors a lot of what
some Of The members call "fads" and
il is a good guess that appropriations
asked for th installation of inuova-
tions WI be slaughtered.
The administration of tho state
board OF charities may be questioned
in othere ways. It is alleged by ONE
Of the members Of Nh appr prlatioas
committee that the office of the state
board Of charities is run more oy-
.ps-sively and no more efficiently than
under former SIS prctent ous boards.
They say there is lot of newly found
dignity attaching to the office II was
said t,day by a member of the com.
mit'co that W. C.. Graves. in charge
of the clerical work Of The board af
chariti s. office styles himself "Secro-
t2ry and executive officer" of the
h07-d while. the only office provided
by the law is tha. of clerk It vas
reported. also thar Mr.. Graves sough.
a member of the Appropriation com
mite today r5 learn toe feeling of the
committee toward the board of chari-
tfes.
Two Cent Fare Bill Considered.
Tho 2 cent fare bin is still causing
deep Thought in th" legislature Tho
O. stion came mp in the house Repub-
licau steering committee again today.
ReWcseutatye McRoberts Of Pcarril
nho objects 20 the bin repo ed by
the railroad committee. moved that p
ub-c0mmittc. bee appointed I'D draft
new bii This was voted down
and then sI-. TJudI- was directed 20
submit rho committee bin t1 Attorney
General tSeal for his opinion as 20
its cons i-ufi0Hality This Mr. Indy
did later and the Attorney General
now has the bin md p coz sidsration
and win report TO the steering com
mittee next Tuesday. There iz scarce
ly any doubt that the Atfo-ner Gener-
al vill bold Dc committee bin 10 l.-
Constitutional in which event II viii
t4 passed hy The horse next week say