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

linus connected with there are tW'
men. the superintendent of the Main
Insane asytum here, who under the stat
ute is TO give his entire time to that in
stitution. but Notwithstanding that he oc
cupies a position with a salary attached
in connection with the medical school o
Bowdoin College: Notwithstanding ina
fact YOU 90 there TO that office and ash
for a copy of a commitment paper toda.
and YOU have to pay for it, notwith
standing that fact that the statute so pro
vides. he is engaged in private practice
| do not say this to criticise him, but il
order that the situation may be under
stood.
And here this same gentleman, viii
whom | am on friendly terms, in getting
out this report. starts in, in the list oil
officers of this institution, and places Ills
name, Henry w. Miller, superintendent
And then the reports of previous years
have followed with the name of the
treasurer and steward of that hospital
appointed by the same authority ana
holding the same tenure of office. What
does he do? Places way down here tht
name of the steward and treasurer oil
HAT hospital, and over his name puts
the names of two nurses.
And they have asked the question, WHY
a state officer has been around these
corridors interested in this legislation.
When. Mr. President the committee who
had this legislation in charge was being
banalicted by a man with that feeling
and animosity toward his coordinate Of
ficer. in rooms furnished by the state of
Maine in this way mahogany library
table. Sla5s.-I am reading from the report
which the senator held in his hand, the
report made by committee OF the last
Lecislatnre-w when he is being banaueted
in hall like this-mahegany dining Ia
ble. S125 mahogany bed. Sll5; L mahe@-
any dining chairs, $3.50; mahogany side
board $155: mahogany serving table, sast
aaislogany bureau. 1925. mahogany chit
fo,ter. SIS; mahogany wing chair, So 81:
mahogany easy chair, $79.25: rug for Nv
ing room. s121; rug for bedeair. Sll4; rug
for dining room, S9l; rug for doctor $
office $50. 10 And when these gentlemen
interested in this legislation came out oil
this dining-room so sumptuously furnish
ed they passed under silk drapefies Tor
the living room that cost the state OF
Maine SIG. And then gentlemen interest
ed in this legislation stand here after
coming from a banquet feast in ban
auet hall like that. eritieising State
officer because he comes here to tins
state House to assert what To assert
the proposition that he is being 1esislated
against.
| have no hostile feelings toward the
superintendent of this hospital None
1T ALL But when by innuehde and insIa-
uation from the various state ofacefS
and from committees in this Legislature.
he comes here. and while he himself i
behind the screen, while the treasurer
stands out in the open III these cotfl-
doris asks this Legislature to legisiate
WHAT Iegislate the man he has con
trived and conspifed to GUST out of Of
flee. to legislate him out of office. and
humiate him the Y ay he has attempted
10 humiliate him in this report. If the
senator from Penobscot wants to get at
the real situation, why doesn't he pro
eide in this bill hat every dollar earned
in the time of tire State shall be tafhea
INTO tine state: s<fat YOU aud |, Mr.. Pres
dent and anybody else, can go to that
insane hospital AMI get an affidavit and
get copies Of commitment papers with
out paying for theflg u do not state
his on information. j state it on per-
;enal knowledge. ~
Now then this superintendent has beeh
lere-and j do not detractNtfrom his cap
has been here since October.
$40. The steward and manager of that
1ospitai, vino has been criticised i'll this
lall. and, who has been criticised in yon-
Ter hall has foi. 80 years been pubic
,tficer in that institution, aad for q
years he has had charge of the states
fnances. He has discussed over i've
Millions of dollars.
He has been investigated by legislative
by different committees ei
previous Legislatures. and after the eN-
penditure OF more than tive millions OF
dollars nobody, be he enemy or anything
else, has ever come forward and put MS
finger unon a single cent that Manning
s, Campbell has misapni epiiatea Ana
yet the gentleman from PeEobscot ctlt-
icises him here upon the floor of the Sell
ate as he was criticised in yonder branch,
and ] feel it my duty as representative
OF inns county, d. Spo"NiH5 ~ - -
interests of the state of Maine, and in
the interests of fair dealing, to speak a
word for the man whom | have Known
for IL years. to say word Tor mafs
whom everybody has Investigated, ana
his enemies have tried to smirch, ana
you are now asking to put this lesisiA-
zion upon the statute books OF the State
of Maine. and for what? For the alleged
of a better financial system ana
accounting. If you want to do something
for the State of Maine and for these
poor unfortunates over here in these nos
pitfalls, l25 of them now lying over thefe
in the corridors of that place-if W.
want to do something for that lnstitu-
ton, take hold of that proposition. ~
YOU want to get at the meat OF the mat
ter. go over there and ask the legislators
to look at the written order that the SUI
of that institution has given
that those patients, those poor un1ortu-
mates, people from whom the light OF
reason has been shut out-that they must
be fed on oleomargarine.
Think of it. Yesterday an order
came in here appropriatng $4,000 Tor
the unfortunates of the Ohio valley. 1t
went through. this Senate without a
Yet over across the banks OF
the kennebec is an institutioA~.whefe
n. cai1 1oa nufartunateS are sXeplnS