Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-04

inmates forced 10 seek their sleep.
Cots, he declared were crowded as
many as possible in a room, some
having as many as six.
He felt it unfortunate that the ar
gument had taken this trend but had
discovered it developed to this stage
at every bringing up of the matter.
1t was always boiled down to a con-
test between the Two officials of this
institution
He told of his visit at night to the
hospital and continued:
L want to say 1t is Il menace and
disgrace to the State of Maine, and
I'm ashamed that this Legislature
does not rise up in its might and do
|, all in its power to remedy these con-
ditions!"
Senator Cole believed the commit
tee on insane asylums must have
made it's investigation in the daytime,
when everything is nice about the
place. and that the committeeman
could never have seen the poor UNI
fortunates sleeping in the corridors or
in those little. crowded rooms where
the stencil is revolving and the air
such that you gasp for breath"
IF there's dollar to spare in the
treasury" he went on. its our duty
To spend it on these suffering persons
from whom the light of reason has de-
parted
Front and Back Doors.
There's a vast difference he de-
elared, "etween the front and the back
doors of this institution. We go in
and see the nice furniture where the
officials and trustees recline luxurious
": we view the tiled iireplaees, the
beautiful chandeliers and the other
attributes, and we say, How we'll the
State cares for its unfortunates3 Then
the door opens into the old part, ana
we find these unfortunates herded like
cattle. no one caring where they are
nor what becomes of them.
He moved that the bill and motion
to refer to the next legislature be
laid upon the table for later constdera-
ton.
DR.. MilIer's Attitude.
This motion was made by Senator
Dutton of Kennebec who, in scathing
terms, decried the attitude OF Superin-
tendent Miller toward treasurer
Campbell He believed it MIR. Mlllers
duty TO attend to the AFFAIRS OF the
institution. yet" he said the super
ih4endent is a member of the faculty
of the Bowdoin medical schools, and
draws a salary. And If You want
commitment papers to the hospi'a''
vel have To pay for them.
IA ringing tones. the senator oe-
nelnced a banquet given by the super :
intandent to the Legislative committee
an insane hospitals. He sarcasticai-
l., referred Ia the luxurious appoint
M nts of the superintenGents ofilce
.n3 nrivafe rooms He read from the
inn estisating committees report to
show how much had been paid for the
rieh mahogany tables. chairs. peo'
cbjffoniers. rugs and draperies.
This superintendent and the long
.tin,o treasurer and steward. he stated
had been at swords point since MI
Campbell had objected to the expehoi-
TIRE of $500 for elaborate furnlshlhsH'
when the money had been so sad'y
naedad to care for the inmates
Many Investigations.
rs it any wonder, then, SAID 'h7
Senator that this treasurer. or
steward, has worked against tins DIN
because he realized that he was beihe
laaislated against. For 30 years
Manning s. Campbell has held the oil :
flee and expended $5,oo0,ooo, lie mas
been investigated and investigated an"
never once has it been proved .ha' :.
single cent had been misappropria,ea:
yesterday" he continued th's
Senate passed a resolve a-hymg ina
appropriated $4,000 for the sufferers IN
ohio. We ought to appropriate none
for the 125 sufferers in the !nsutu-
lion across the Kennebec VINO are
buddled together in the corridors ~
tho institution at night time. IhSf
and others are fed. in this great stat"
of Maine. which produces SO much
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