Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-06
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
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be recommtted to the committee for
/ further consideration.
come to No. 239, Resolve in favor
OF the Eastern Maine Insane hosnita !
! Tor concrete walk, grading, painting.
!, furnishings, completion of contracts
on barn, tubercular hospital and wing
D. carrying an appropriation of s3S.-
1889. Now in 1907 by Chapter so of
the Resolve the State appropriated
soo'pVo Tor tubercular hospital, and
mere they are at this time asking Cor
s'ooo more to complete it-no explana-
ton offered, nothing in the report
ABOUT 1t, simply that they must COM
pe'e IT. Where does the money go to?
, now Is 1t accounted for? How do thew
distribute it? Do they do it by Compel
HiVe oids' Do people in Maine out
sac OF selected few get a chance at
an's distribution of money by the
state! And the same year this hos
ptal was furnished $4,000 to con-
S'ruct new wing. Now to a man
not carpenter or a contractor 1T
would seem that a wing to a hospital
could be built for sl50OO0 without GO
Ing 10 the next Legislature to have it
eo'"peted. You never will have it
,o"hpleted' | move that this resolve
VIC iecolnmltted to the committee.
:. mere is NO. 24O, Resolve in favor of
.he Maine Insane hospital for addi-
uo'al compensation for certain officers.
uoes not state who they are, it
SIMPLY says for physicians and in
.e'les ana additional for chaplains. /
.'l understand that this House has
nad any trouble about getting ade-
quate chaplalns for 81 per during this
SeSsoh' | don't know but that this is
.eht out 1t seems to me that if the
'a''ouS county commissioners, judges
VI court, trial justices, registers of
eeeoS' men concerned in public affairs,
w not nave their salaries raised, that
"ese gentemen's salaries should hot
pe raised and | move that this dill
Indefinitely postponed
iaSe 24l, Resolve in favor of the
'.'he insane hospital for completion
"'e criminal insane building. They
"V,e furnished $4,000 in the year 1907
puld a building, now they ask for
Wv" TO complete; and next year they
s'u come here for $4,000 to tear it
so"h and build it larger. Now l I'M
w that the criminal insane
s"onia be cared for by this House. You
,'uS' nave place for them, and l
az. .aVe no objection to the passage of
this resolve
NO, az, for the purchase of a steam
.s~,''zer, tools and machinery, vege-
~ ,SoN cellar and piggery extension.
Wv l understand that they have a
Sesefy at this insane asylum that is
great deal better than the houses of
swat many members of this Legis-
,ho u'e, II Is a good thing that hogs
Du'o nave an attractive. comfortable,
{ ,1se W. place to reside in. while
MY MY urinary citizen of the State gets
.. nat ne best can. | move that this re-
so''e be recommitted to the committee
!" INSANE hospitals for further consid-
Grafton
wv is No. 2i3, whereby the Eastern
th a'''' insane hospital is provided with
.as,. sum Of $500 for the purchase of
w. a'''ohal land; and I believe a bill
,.ss read this morning authorizing the
i T. and trustees to sign the deed
~. .ohVeyance of it. 1t calls for $4,000,
a., ~ une statement of facts shows that
~ hospital is to get $4,000 for the sale
Al "t to the city of Bangor. and l
h. "ot See why the Eastern hospital
tb~.I "o' made profit of $4,000 for which
NJ m no way account to the State.
chaa 'e is appropriated $4,000 for the pur-
MoS oi a 5o-acre farm known as the
ths sc place adjoining the property of
a.. Eastern Maine insane hospital,
yoaS u sum to be appropriated for the
rao.; iSVs and expended under the Ill
,;,a uoh of the trustees of insane hos
s.:s's Now they have money to buy