SANITARIUM FOR DRUNKARDS.
Mr. Baxter, from the Committee on Reformatory Institutions, now again returned his bill [H. R. 498] to establish the State Sanitarium, with the amendment as above reported, recommending its passage. (It appropriates $10,000 toward the beginning of a Suite Sanitarium for Drunkards).
The amendment was adopted.
Mr. Schmuck moved for the indefinite postponement of the bill.In the debate which followed, Messrs. Baxter, Richardson, Rumsey, Hatch, Walker, Mellett and Thayer supported the bill, and Messrs, Shmuck, Peed and Reno supported the motion to postpone; which was at length decided in the negative.
Yeas 17, nays 60; and then the report was concurred in and the bill was ordered to the engrossment.
The House then took the recess till two o'clock P. M.
