The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-06
County Council Meets This
Morning and Takes Favor
able Action Without Dis
cussing the Bill.
is TO BE LOCATED
IN THE JAIL YARD
An Appropriation of $500 for
Deputy for County School
Superintendent Defeated
by Council.

Without dissent the appropriation
OF $4,000 for the construction OF .
county insane ward and for its plumb
ing and heating appliances was pass
ed by the county council on Thurs
day on first reading of the ordinance,
but a $3.50 appropriation which per.
tanned to school office was turned
down, as in the opinion Of the council
men it was not warranted. The In
sane ward will be an addition to the
county Jail.
Under a law enacted by the 1911
legislature the board of commissioners
authorized the expenditure OF $3.50
year for the employment of a deputy
in the office of county superintendent.
c. o. Williams. The deputy may be
employed for hundred and twenty
days. no more. at So per day. Although
there is an older one with which it con-
flicts, and which says that no money
can be spent for such purposes with
out an appropriation by the council.
When County Auditor, Demas Coe
presented the appropriation as a
means of protection, Councilman Har-
vey Cook, raised a protest and was
supported by other members, except
Councilman Worl, who. while he voted
no did so under protest. Mr.. Cook
said that the council had no right to
spend the peoples money in this way.
He thought County Superintendent
Williams, who he said was anxious to
have deputy. should do like his pre-
decessors and pay his office help out
Of his own pocket. His opinion was
concurred in by the others.
Went Through Easy.
The appropriation for the insane
ward at the county jail which was once
disallowed, slipped through at Thurs
days session as though 1t had been
cut and dried" beforehand Judge
Fox, of the circuit court addressed the
councilmen. urging the appropriation
and evidently they had been addressed
personally in private by many others.
as they did not even discuss the mat
ter. The architect was not there to
explain and SO the council inserted
the clause that the appropriation must
cover the construction and plumbing
and heating systems in the building.
The building will be constructed on
the back end of the jail lot on South
Second street It will be a one story
brick building with basement under
tents cells. one padded cell. large
bathroom, corridor and vestibules are
provided for the accommodation OF
the insane, who may be confined in
this custodial ward while awaiting ad-
mittance to Easthaven. Only danger
ously insane will be accommodated
The site was selected before the meet
ing. Advertisements for bids will be
made at once and in case the bids are
below the appropriation, the lowest
bidder will be given the contract to
| start to work on the building late this
! summer
| DIN speaking OF the present arrange
ment for caring for the insane Judge
Fox referred to it as "barbarism re-
fined" He referred to the number
| who had died at the county jail and
how impossible it was to give the In
sane proper treatment when confined
promiscuously with the other inmates
| in for misdemeanors and felonies.
Soldiers Burial Fund.
Councilmen complained against ap-
propriating $500 to bolster up the sol
diers' burial fund for which $500 was
appropriated last September. All but
$3.50 has been expended in paying out
$50 upon the death of each Union sol
der who could not be buried without
distressing the family finances. The
councilmen said they understood that
often township trustees, who make
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