The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-04-15

disease.
The fight between the advisory
commission and the State Board of
Health, and it was a fight as inside
information obtained by the writer
shows, bids fair to revolutioniZe ap-
pointments on the board. The advis-
DRY board was saved from being de-
molished also as a result of disclos-
ures made. The Senate on civil ad-
ministration voted for indefinite post
ponement of the Christianson bill to
put the commission out of existence.
The Senate as whole passed the
Rockne bill, which would have the
governor appoint the secretary of the
state Board of Health. This officer
is now named by the board. 1t is ex-
pected that the House will pass the
Rockne bill.
Instead of cutting their own
threats" as was mentioned in this
column a week ago, the advisory COM
mission seems to have taken a whack
at the board of health. Introduction
of the Rockne measure followed close
ly revelations made before the COM
mittee on civil administration by DR..
Longstreet Taylor of st. Paul, chair
man of the advisory commission. 1t
was said in the House during debate
on the Christensen bill that DR.. Tay-
lor has sent patient to his own pri-
vate sanitorium af Pokegama, who
should have been cared for at the
Walker institution. DR.. Taylor proved
to the committee that there was no.
thing wrong in his handling of the
case.
Supporters of the idea seem assur-
ed of woman's reformatory in Min
nesota.
The Senate passed the bill provid-
ing for it with the amendment that
$4,000 be appropriated and site Sc
lected by the state Board of Control
When it passed the House it carried
$4,000 appropriation. The bill will
now go to the House for concurrence
in the amendments.
The proposed affilation of the Min
nesota University and the Mayo Hos
pital at Rochester has stirred up a
discussion that may be heard from
Legislative halls to uttermost part of
the state.
The Senate very wisely named a
special committee to inquire into the
proposition with the idea of furnishing
the Senate with frst-hand informa-
ton.
The committee includes, Senators
Oluf Gjertset of Montevideo, j. W..
Andrews of Mankato and Carl Wal
lace of Minneapolis. Il
Dean E. P. Lyon of the Medical
college at the University explained
the foundation scheme in statement
to the press. He said that if the ex-
perimental period is satisfactory to
the Board of Regents the endowment
fund for the foundation will become
the property of the University with
the restrictions that the income be
used at Rochester for medical re-
search and education and be invested
in sound securities.
Plans for experimental affilation
have been approved by the Mayo's.
The founders have appointed a COM
mittee of three business men of
Rochester, who are not members of
the foundation, to have charge of the
S1,5OO,OOO trust fund during the six
year trial period. If the affiliation is
made at the end of the trial period the
trust fund will be turned over to the
Regents.
Under the proposed affilation only
graduate medical students of the I'm
iversity would be allowed to work at
the Rochester hospital. 1t would al
low them the benefit of working in
one of the biggest and most modern
hospitals in the country.
The Gjerset committee reported to
the Senate Monday. The members
said that the University is in need of
additional facilities for the graduate
school of medicine and that the Mayo
foundation has a wealth of material
for this sort of work. The committee
did not make any recommendation as
is was appointed for the sole purpose
of gathering information for the Sen
ate.
There have been bills introduced to
prevent the Regents from accepting
the Mayo proposition. These meas
ures, it is said, will not be likely to
pass.
The House Monday decided to take
chance on the anti-road house bill
and put it on final passage.
There was some doubt as to the lie.
gality of passage of the bill few
days before. Speaker Flowers sale
two-thirds Of the members present
could vote for suspension of the rules
The constitution provides that two
thirds of the whole House is neces
sary for such proceeding.
Tho Houca decided to stick nv IL.