The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-24
Senator Cashel Has New Plan
Which Improves the Old
Statute
SEEKING TO INCREASE COST
FOR KEEPING THE INSANE
May Raise the Rate From $40 to $15
Per Month For Each Patient to the
Counties So as to Sccur iSsalls For
improvements. b.
III. ID. pAUi.SON.,


Bismarck. n. d., Jan. 24.-Aain-
tenance appropriation bills will be a
thing of the past in North Dakota so
far as the state asylum for the insane
is concerned in the event that a ball
introduced by Representative w. B.
Denault of Stutsman county. providing
for an increase in the cost of keeping
patients at the hospital. becomes law
Under the terms of the bill the amount
that counties would have to pay the
asylum for the care Of patients would
be increased from $40 to s15 month,
such increase meaning total increase
in receipts during the next two years
of about $4,000.
Introduction of this measure grows
out of visit to the asylum of legis-
lative junketing committee this week
1t was found that the hospital is bad
ly crowded and in sore need of addi-
tional buildings in which to house the
patients. of which there are now 7OS.
with net increase each month of
about eight patients. This will mean
that two years hence the hospital will
have a total list of patients of about
900.
At the present time the counties of
the state are compelled by law to pay
$40 a month for each patient in the
hospital Under the new proposed
increase bill. when the payments
would be made $15 month. the MAIN
tenance fund SO created would total
approximately $4,000 a year, and as
this money becomes available with
each succeeding year it would only
be a matter OF time before no further
maintenance would have to be appro-
priated out of the general fund by the
legislature.
The ilnketing committee. composed
of Senators LaMoure, Duncan and
Krctchmar and Representatives Ploy-
lar and Stern, is strongly in favor of
all appropriation that will allow for
the construction of new ward build
ing during the coming year as the
hospital is now badly crowded for
space.
The Legislative junketing committee
that was to have visited the state nor
nal school at Valley City did not ma
terializc, failure of the trains to oper-
ate on time being responsible.
Drainage Bill.
ooIutlOu VI IuC pCOU-
lem is proposed by Senator J. H.
Cashel of Walsh county in a. bill that
he has presented in the upper house.
1t does away with a number of the OBJ
jcctionable features of the present
drainage law and substitutes some
new features that the sponsor of the
bill hopes to be able to incorporate
into the law. 1t is a measure in 11aich
the land owners OF the Red river val
Icy are particularly interested be-
cause of their past experiences with
the present measure.
1t is provided under the Cashel bill
that petition of six land owners for
drain may be filed. but such petit
tioners must put up a bond for pre-
liminary costs that might be incurred
The drain board then proceeds to
make survey and then calls a meet
ing of the land owners interested.
sending registered notice to each
of them. such meeting to lie held at
the point nearest to the drain that
will accommodate the most people in
tcrested. At this meeting the land
owners may order the work stopped
by vote of the majority of those
present, or il they are not satisfied
with they survey they may call in the
state engineer to make the survey,
and his verdict shall be final. In the
event that the land owners order the
work discontinued. they are made liza
bic for the expense incurred up to
that time.
Under the present law when petit
tion is filed the board commences it's
work by having survey made, let's
the contract and makes the ASSESS
nent. At that time the land owners
may come in but the boards power
is arbitrary and the only recourse is
In the courts. In the past the courts
have held with the drain boards in
practically every particular so that
legal action has not been fruitful of
good results from the point of view
OF the land owner. The notice of in
tcntiOn to construct drains. too, it is
cOntcnded, is insufficient. while no
means is provided for making pay
mcnt OF debts that might be incurred
by the drain board on a. drain project
that is afterwards abandoned.
In PGmbina county at the present
time there are Il number of warrants
atlOat on n drain that has not been
constructed the project being aban-
doncd. and as there is no money to
pay the warrants and no means of
raising any, the holders of such war
rants are In a quandary as to how
they will be able to realize.
Nursery men Of the state will in
tc"cst themselves again this year in
Legislation bearing upon their indus
try A bill that was introduced two
years ago by Anderson of Ramsey