REORGANIZATION OF THE BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS.
Mr. Brown's bill [S. 1] to provide for the better government and management of the Reformatory Institutions of this State, coming up in order, it was read the second time with a majority report recommending amendments, striking out Sections 3, 4 and 5. Also, a minority report recommending its indefinite postponement.
The first two sections of the bill are as follows:
Section 1, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That the government and management of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, of the Asylum for the Blind, and the Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, shall be and is hereby vested In three several Boards of Trustees, consisting of two Trustees for each of said institutions and one President for the three several Boards, which President shall be the Presiding Officer and Third Trustee of each of Mid Boards. The terms of such President and Trustees shall be four years, dating from the first day of February first following their election. The said Boards shall, on or about the first Monday in February after the adoption of this act, and every two years thereafter, select one of their number as Secretary and one as Treasurer thereof.
Sec 2. The General Assembly shall elect, on joint ballot, on or about the 15th day of January. 1883, one of said Trustees for each of said Institutions, and at the same time and in like manner, the President of the said Boards snail be elected. Every four years thereafter a President of said Boards shall be elected, and every two years thereafter, one Trustee for each of the said Institutions shall be elected, it being understood and declared that the Trustees now holding office and whose terms do not expire until February 1, 1885, shall continue in office under this act. and discharge the duties thereof until that time. If a vacancy shall occur in any of the said Boards when the Legislature is not in session, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the Governor, the appointment to hold good only until the following session of the General Assembly, when it shall be filled by election in the manner provided for in this act.
Section, third requires that the husband or wife, father or mother, or guardian of an insane person, it able, shall furnish the patient clothing; Section 4, that the proper relative of a recovered patient, who has been supplied with clothing, shall pay for such patient's transportation home; Section 5, that a medical officer, to be designated by the Board, shall take charge of one of the departments of the Insane Hospital, and such 'office shall, within the sphere prescribed by the Board. enjoy all the privileges and discharge all the du ties of a Superintendent, and, in the absence of the latter shall act in his stead and discharge his duties.
Mr. SPANN, as a substitute for both reports, moved to amend by striking out from the enacting clause of the bill [S. 1] and in lieu thereof substituting the bill [H. R. 42, Representative Wilson's, of Marion], to amend Sections 1 and 2 of the act providing for the government of the Benevolent Institutions of the State, providing that the term of the outgoing Trustees extend to the 1st of February, 1883, ana that in the event of the Senate not approving the nominations made by the Governor, the present Trustees shall be continued in office. It also provides means by which charges against the Trustees may be prosecuted and investigated, and empowers the Attorney General to act for the State in the prosecution of the same, and declares that the Trustees hall be removed if cause is found to exist, and their successors appointed by the Governor, and the Governor can not remove them wit 'out the fact of their inefficiency, carelessness or dishonesty has been established in Court.
Mr. BROWN stating it is the desire of quite a number of Senators that this subject shall not be considered now, and reserving the point of order on the substitute just proposed, he moved the bill and report be made the special order for Thursday at 10:30 o'clock a. m. It was agreed to,
