Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-27

turned down and are passed through
this House when the members are alb
sent and when they have no opportun-
ty to act upon them l have no Desire
to have any further action taken in re-
gard to this bill and therefore 7 move
the adoption Of the report Of the ccm-
mittcC.
The report Of the committee was then
adopted.
On motion Of Mr.. Norman of East
Livormorc, the rules were suspended
ana he introduced as an amendment to
q bill already introduced, a Bill tnti-
tied "-lu Act to amend An Act to in
corporate the LivcrmOrc Falls Sewer
District" Utcad three times and passed
to be cngr"ssed under suspension of
the rules on motion Of Mr.. MerrimanD
On motion Of Mr.. Hall Of Dover, re-
ports a. and I'D" of committee on in
sane hospitals on order to inquire into
| the exrciicncy Of inSuring the insane
hospital reporting Legislation ineXpe-
| dirrt" and n resolve fought to pass,
! We're taken from the table.
! Mr. HALL of Dover: Mr.. Speaker,
| this originated from an order intro
| duced into the House. The committee
| have somewhat different opinions in re-
gard to the policy of insuring these
| buildings. All of the outbuildingS, all of
| the wooden buildings, the barns and so
| forts, not connected with the main IN
sane hospital are insured for something
| like SAL coo. This matter came up i'll
| connection with the question of lnS'lr-
ing the main hospital building. The re-
| pOrt which | signed. report a. and
which was adopted by the Senate, re-
ported that legislation was inexpedi-
ent. Our reason for reporting in this
| way was in the first place that the
| buildings are practically fireproot.
They have made arrangements for an
annie supply of water for fire pur-
| noses and it seemed to us that the State
could well afford to insure those fire
proof buildings. We divided practical
| " even on these two reports in order
| to get an expression of the Legislature
| on the matter fire broke out in the
, laundry some time since and the trus-
tees claimed that they We're censured
nv some partinS for not having the
buildings insured, and they brought the
matter before the committee. The COM
mittce in turn bring the matter to you
for YOU to establish the policy of the
state as to whether or not those public
buildings should be insured. Twelve
thousand dollars for five years insures
the hospital building in Augusta for
| stO0. 600 That is about 40 per cent. Of
tho value. The amount put on the Ban
cor hospital is about 100000. That hos
pital has already cost about half mil
lion dollars Mr.. Macomber showed me
| -, lief Of insurance oS if is usually put
onto such buildings. Taking the small
amount here as compared with the
whole value of the hospital and divid-
ing that into innumerable small items
or small parts of the buildings, it did
rot seem to us that in case of fire we
i would get an amount of money suffi-
cirnt to warrant the outlay of the in
surance. Consequently we returned
this report "A
II Mr.. WELD Of Old Town: Mr.. Speak
er. the cheap rate of insurance and the
large amount expended on these build
inSs seemed to us to warrant a certain
, amount of insurance. 1t would cost the
State of Maine $1,000 year to maintain
/, an insurance of S635, 900. The rate of
> insurance is very reasonable Now
wish to say rs a member of the minor
ity party in this House that in my opin-
, ion the large amounts that have been
/. appropriated for hospitals are not suffi-
GENTLY large. You have across the riv-
, or four or five wards that ought to
be Immediately renovated to place
them in proper condition. don't think
. a dollar has been appropriated more
, than should have been I only think