The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-01-27
ASYLUM INVESTIGATION
BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY
COMMITTEE TO REPORT AT PRE-
SENT SESSION
House Resolution Which Followed
Governors Message Is Adopted
BY Senate.
Special to The Herald and News.

Columbia, JAN 26.-The State senate
on Friday, by vote of 80 to 9, adopted
the Stevenson concurrent resolution,
which had already passed the house,
providing for an investigation into
affairs connected with the State hos
! pital for the insane. The Stevenson
resolution was offered and adopted
in the house following. the reading of
Governor Blease's special message
which was published in full in The
! Herald and News The resolution
then went over to the senate, where
it provoked a heated and spirited de-
! bate before it passed that body. The
vote in the senate was as follows:
In favor of the resolution was as
follows Alderman, Appelt, Banks,
Beamguard, Black, Buck, Carlisle,
Christensen, Crouch, Earle, Epps,
Goodwin, Hardin, Hough, Johnstone,
Ketchin, Lawson, Lide, Manning,
Mauldin, McCown, Mullins, Nicholson,
Patterson, Richardson, Sinkler,
Stuckey, Sullivan, Weston and Young
Total, 80 Those who voted against the
resolution were: Clifton, Dennis,
Gross, Johnson, Mars, Sharpe, Strait,
Werner, Williams-Total 9.
The resolution provides for an in
yestigating committee of three mem
! bers of the house and three. members
of the senate "to make thorough in
vAstigation of the matters relating to
the State hospital for the insane re-
ferred to in the governors message
and any other matters concerning the
management of the same and the well
fare of the unfortunate inmates and
the conduct of the State hospital COM
mission and all officers, regents and
employees of the said institution and
OF the property known as State Park"
: The committee is to be required to
report to the general assembly before
: the end of the present session.
! During the discussion in the senate,
Senator Crouch, of Saluda, bitterly at
tackled the board of regents for re-
solutions adopted by the board, which
{ he read as having been adopted on
January Is, as follows:
Whereas, complaints have been
made to us individually and as a body
that certain friction among the Off
cials of this institution is now in ex-
istence and has been for some time;
and
Whereas, various members Of the
medical staff reported to us that DR..
Saunders was interfering, meddling
with them and thereby hampering
them in the discharge of their duties;
land
Whereas, this board did on the
18th day of December, 1913, hold an
executive session and have before it
Superintendent Babcock, Drs Saun-
ders, Griffith, Thompson, Fulmer and
Toole. and hear their various state
ments in reference tb said matter; and
whereas, at said meeting DR..
co,odorc od,,i++od +Jo& che nod y>aaD.
taking lessons under Dr. Cooper in a
certain branch Of the medical depart
ment, and that DR.. Cooper had fire.
quently been on the premises and in
the building of the said institution
after he had been defeated as an Off
Ger thereof and after the ,superintend
ent had been requested to keep him
off said property and out of said
building; now therefore, be it re-
solved:
First, That this board deplores the
action of. Dr. Saunders in interfering
with the other members of the medi-
cal staff in the discharge of their du-
ties and that the members of this
board hereby place upon record their
condemnation of her continually hav-
ing DR.. Cooper in the institution in
direct violation of the wishes Of this
board of regents.
Resolved, second, That this board
do find that DR.. Saunders has been
continually interfering with the other
members of the medical staff in the
discharge of their duties and in fact,
preventing Dr. Blackburn from the
proper discharge of his duties and
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