The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-22
Council Unanimously Passed
Appropriation Ordinance
Carrying With 1t $4,000 for
Reid Institution.
SCHILLlNGER HOLDS
1T is NOT LAWFUL.
Declares He Is Not in Favor
Of Taxing the Citizens of
Richmond to Pay for Chari-
ty Cases Not Local.

~ Eases MOI Local..
At council meeting Monday evening
Mayor Richard Schillinger returned 10
council the municipal appropriation
ordinance for 1905 with his veto at
tached to that part of the ordinance
which appropriates $4,000 for the Reid
Memorial hospital. Mayor Schillinger
states in the communication, which
was addressed to the council. that his
reason for vetoing this part of the or
dinance is because council had, in his
opinion, no authority to make the ap-
preparation. although he had no doubt
that the council labored under the
belief that a statute passed by the last
legislature authorized the same. The
action of the mayor was ignored by
council and the hospital appropriation
clause Of the general appropriation or
dinance was passed over the veto by q
unanimous vote
Deuker to the Defense.
After the communication from the
mayor had been read Councilman Deu-
ker championed the hospital and stat
ed that the hospital, as everyone
knew, was not owned in fee simple by
the city, but that it belonged to the
citizens of Richmond and should oe
supported by them. He stated that
the hospital is managed by board of
I'm, hv Paid hat
the institution could be kept out of pol
itics. Mayor Schillinger denied that
the institution Is owned by the city,
even in spirit. He stated that the ar
ticles of incorporation show that the
hospital is owned by the board OF trus-
tees. Mr.. Englebert asked the mayor
IL he would rather see the city build n
hospital out of the city funds than
have the city help maintain the hos
pital built by Mr.. Reid for the citizens
of Richmond. The mayor replied
that he was not in favor of the citizens
of Richmond being taxed to help main
tain charity patients brought TO the
institution from New Castle, Hagers-
town, New Paris and other neighbor-
ing towns.
Mayors Views.
The mayors communication to coun-
Gil in part follows:
There is no objection from any
source. SO far as | know. to the city
paying out of her funds the necessary
expenses of treating the deserving
poor of the city at this hospital, but
this the city is not asked to do. but on
the contrary. the council is making an
appropriation of $1,000 for the year
1908, in addition to the $1,000 already
appropriated, making a total of $15,-
900 appropriated in little over one
year to this hospital irrespective of the
requirements for hospital treatment of
the deserving poor at this hospital or
of the amount which the city should
pay for the treatment of its charity pa
tients at this hospital and without any
accounting or even promise on the
part of the hospital officials or any de-
mand therefore by the council that this
money should be used for the exclusive
benefit of the citizens of Richmond
who may become patients at this hos
pital.
bul We UO ODJecL 10 the COMMON
council of Richmond making large ap-
preparations and paying out of the
city's funds large sums of money 70
make up the deficit of what the hos
pital authorities receive from patients
living outside of the city and being in
no wise connected with the city. and
the actual cost of maintenance at the
hospital according to the report of the
hospital authorities which is As per
day.
Claim an Injustice.
The average receipts per day from
patients outside the city are 81 30, in
Guiding the use of the operating room.
dressings and extra nursing.
A number of patients from outside
the city only pay S1.O0 per day. The
report of the board of trustees shows
LAT it costs s2.4S per day. leaving a
deficit of S1.4S for those only paying
S1.Go per day and on the average of 4S
cents per day for every patient re-
ceived at the hospital for treatment
who reside outside of the city.
You having appropriated the money
necessary to make up the deficit, have
donated out of the city's funds -
cents per day for 1O6s days from Janu.
airy i, 1907. to Oct. Is, 1907, to people
who do not belong to the city and
majority of whom are financially able
| to pay the full cost of their mainte-
nance while at the hospital and when
you do this. / consider 1t Illegal and
uuilfst To orr taYDayers