The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-20
No Objection, He Says, to Pay
ing for City's Charity In
mates at an Equitable
Rate.
WETTIG SPRINGS A
SURPRISE IN COUNCIL.
Would Have Title Transferred
To City Thereby LegaIizing
All Appropriations to the
Hospital.

~ hereby approve and sign the
above ordinance, except the item ap-
propriatins $4,000 to the Reid Memoir
ial hospital, which | believe, as was
shown In the veto Of last year, to be
illegal, and ! further claim it to be an
injustice to the taxpayers of the City
of Richmond to appropriate their mon
ey for the maintainence of patients
Tin whole or in part) from outside Of
the city. There is no objection from
any source so far as know to the city
paying out Of her general fund the
necessary expenses of treating the de-
serving poor of the city at this hos
pital, and we have asked the hospital
trustees to enter into legal and just
contract to treat our deserving poor
at this hospital for $2.o5, or whatever
1t actually costs, per day to maintain
patient at this hospital, and also to
pay the difference between $2.o5 and
whatever the deserving poor actually
pay. This the trustees absolutely re-
fused to do.
Item appropriating $4,000 to the Reid
Memorial hospital this 18th day Of
October, 1908.
Richard sehilinser, Mayor"
This statement was attached 20 the
budget ordinance when it was re-
turned to council last evening. Just
as council, following it's usual custom,
was about to blithly pass the .ordi-
nance over the veto of the mayor,
Councilman Charles Wettig took the
floor and presented a resolution which
favors the transferring of the title to
the hospital property to the city of
Richmond, and increasing the mem
bership of the board of trustees to ten,
five of whom to be chosen by council.
The introduction of this resolution
caused small ripple of excitement,
but Councilman Bartel soon recovered
himself sufficiently to make a motion
that the resolution be laid over until
the next meeting. This motion was
L
moved that the veto of the mayor on
the hospital appropriation be not sus-
Hained. Mr.. Wettig then moved to
amend this resolution to provide that
action on Mr.. Won Pein's motion be
not taken until the next council ses-
sio. Mr.. Won PENIS motion in its
amended form was then adopted.
Will Pass Measure.
There Is no doubt but that council
will pass the hospital appropriation
over the mayors veto at the next coun-
Gil meeting, Notwithstanding the fact
that large number of citizens agree
with the mayor that the city has no
. right to help maintain the hospital so
long as it continues to remain private
institution. At the close of the coun-
Gil session, Mayor Schillinger stated
that 1t was not generally known by the
public that since the hospital had been
built the city of Richmond had contri-
buted to it about 10000, including
the $4,000 left by James Morrison in
trust with the city to be given to some
worthy benevolent institution, and at
institution the board of trustees, which
is self-perpetuating body. had the
right to sell every inch of ground and
every brick, stone and piece of lumber
belonging to the hospital.
Wettie Resolutions.
The resolution introduced by Mr..
Wettig reads as follows:
Whereas, The common council of
/. the city of Richmond, Indiana. is peti-
toned to donate the sum OF four thou
sand (S4,OOO dollars to the Reid Me-
mortal hospital, a corporation located
near to, but outside of the city of Rich
mond, and
Whereas. The said hospital was do
mated to the people of the said city by
Daniel G. Reid conditional upon the
citizens raising an endowment fund of
twenty-five thousand tS25,o dollars,
and the said fund having been fully
raised from a general subscription
from the citizens OF said city, and
Whereas, 1t is admitted by the men,
bers OF the common council and the cit
izens of said city that it is essential to
the welfare of the people of said city
that substantial hospital should be
maintained by the said city and for the
people Of said city. Be it
Resolved. BY the common council of
the city of Richmond. Indiana. that we
recommend to the board of trustees of
the Reid Memorial hospital that, in or
der to settle all question as to the legal
right OF the council to contribute to the
maintenance of said hospital, that the
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