HOUSE OF REFUGE.
Mr. MACARTNEY, from the Joint Committee appointed to investigate the management and affairs of the Indiana House of Refuge for Juvenile Offenders, submitted a report that it has not deemed it advisable to proceed with such investigation, for the reason that the only charges preferred against the management of said Institution, which have come to the knowledge of the Committee, were contained in an anonymous communication published in a newspaper of the city of Indianapolis; that the author of said communication has not availed himself of the opportunity afforded him by the Committee of filing with them his grounds of complaint, and of furnishing the Committee with such other information at his command as would enable them to proceed with such investigation. No information from any source whatever has been furnished the House of any other persons knowing, or likely to know, any matter discreditable to the management of said Institution; that since the appointment of this Committee, the House Committee on Reformatory Institutions, at the suggestion of whose Chairman this Committee was appointed, have visited said Institution and reported favorably thereon; and that from the best information obtained by the Committee, no just grounds of complaint exist against the management of said institution. The Committee is of opinion that it is not warranted in proceeding further in the premises, unless some reputable citizen of the State shall file with the Committee, over his own signature, specific charges against the management of said Institution, or that such other information shall be furnished the Committee as will render it reasonably certain that an investigation will not prove a useless expenditure of time and money.
On motion by Mr. FOSTER, the report was concurred in.
