The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-09-20

Hospital,
Tuberculosis Hospital.
Board of Children's Guardians.
National Association for the relief
of destitute colored women and chill
dren,
Temporary Home for Ex-Union
Soldiers and Sailors.
Florence Crittenden Hope and
Help Mission,
Southern Relief Society,
Garfield Hospital,
| Childrens Hospital,
Eastern Dispensary,
Columbia Institute for the Deaf.
Catholic Institutions.
Providence Hospital.
Saint AIMS Infant Asylum.
The money which | have caused to
be paid Into the public TIE asttry-i is
money which was gotten without
valuable consideration being return
ed for it. In other words, it was
money gotten for nothing.
I suppose that Mr.. Williams
thinks it would be equitable and fair
to compel the Catholic institutions
/ to refund the money with which
they bought food, clothing, mcdi-
cine. coal and the other necessaries
of life which We're furnished to the
pauper sick in the District of CO.
lumbia, and at the same time to per-
NIT the non-CathOlic institutions to
retain the even larger amount of
money which they have been paid
for rendering the same sort of SER
vice to those who We're too poor to
pay for it themselves.
If any hospitals are to be
compelled to return the money with
which they bought food, clothing,
medicine, coal and the other neces-
saries of life for these poor, then
those articles for which they paid
out their good money should be re-
turned to them. In other words,
they have rendered the very best
consideration for the money which
they have gotten.
The one who has filled Mr.. Will
liams so full of transformation evil
IDENTIFY did not tell him that while
Congress did appropriate the money
for the expenses enumerated by him,
yet the money SO appropriated was
not out of the Treasury of the Unit
ed States but out of the funds be-
longing to the District of Columbia.
The District of Columbia has no
Treasurer. That Office was abolish
ed by a Republican Congress in
1874. Since that time all the taxes
and other revenues collected by the
District of Columbia are deposited
in the Treasury of the United States
to the credit of the District of Co
lumbia. and, under the law. can not
be paid out except Congress author
ize IL to be done through appropria-
ton bills.
Since 1873 the people throughout
the United States have been com
PEELED to pay one-half of all the ex-
penses of the District of Columbia.
The hospital expenses about which
Mr.. Williams has SO ignorantly writ
ten, are also paid on that half-and-
half basis
Since | have been in Congress it
has been my main effort to relieve
the people in Kentucky and the 9TH
er States from the payment of one
half of those expenses.
The Catholic hospitals in the Dis
trict of Columbia as well as the non
Catholic hospitals in the District OF
Columbia have annually paid to
them one-half of those expenses
which are contributed by the people
of Kentucky and in the other States.
Since during the last five years |
have made such hard fight to re-
lieve the people of the States of the
payment of any part of this money,
Ii follows as natural consequence
that my fight has been to relieve the
people throughout the Union from
paying anything to either the Cath
Ollie hospitals or TO the non-Catholic
hospitals. My policy has been to
treat all these institutions just alike.
| am not in favor of having the
people In Kentucky taxed to take
care of the poor people in the Dis
trict Of Columbia when the people
in the District of Columbia are
abundantly and amply able to take
care Of their own poor.
b There Is another thing which no