| Show tJjeclsnnlshness that In tine would hare disappeared Judge Anderson1 decision would have done the business In tme The hoodlum downt can but seriously complicate matters TIE IXSAXE ASTLCil IXFOitMATlox laid before the Legislature soon after the session opened was to the effect that 16 I 0 could bo necessary to complete the Territorial Insane Asylum at Provo and when that sum should expended IIIL would accommodate b expnded upon it commodate less than one hundred patents more than were now in It and that there would nt bo room In I for all patients in whose behalf applications for admission had already al-ready liven fed Tills showing wa discouraging on the strength of I the project purchasing Fort i Cameron for a branch asylum was seriously considered The special committee charged with the Investigation Inves-tigation of the matter on their return turn from a visit to Fort Cameron repotted potted that the property could be purchased pur-chased for 0 that it could befitted be-fitted upfortbepurposcofanasylum for 0 more that with that expenditure ex-penditure it would b well adapted t the object in view and that in the opinion of the committee the purchase should b made and a branch asylum established there later a supplemental report was rendered by tho directors of the Insane In-sane Asylum to the eflect that the building could b completed for the sum previously named but according accord-ing to revised plans which would greatly Increase its capacity t accommodate ac-commodate patients Yesterday the House committee on asylum In a report upon tills subject stated that there were I9 patients now In the asylum occupying a space originally designed for 75 that the could be building finished for SI6 0 in a manner that would make mae its total capacity sufficient for 3 or 350 or even 100 patients and that the cost of maintaining It for the next two years would b 60000 Tho committee therefore recommended recom-mended that the sum of O b appropriated to complete the buIlding build-ing and maintain the institution Jntn iwttuUon for the next two years In view of the Information relative rela-tive to the Increased capacity of the institution consequent upon revising the plans for Its construction the proposition to purchase Fort < inner on I abandoned Probably this w asa as-a wise step though the 2f sws at the time favored that projo sllion e however mentioned the objections to a division of the asylum and n willing to concede that those objections coupled with the promised Increase in the capacity of the asylum when finished outweigh the considerations considera-tions In favor of the Fort Cameron project I the Assembly can see its Ambly en N way clear to the immediate completion of the building at Provo the necessary neces-sary steps to accomplish that object should be taken at once For a long term of years the Territorial Insane I Asylum h been a source of perplexity per-plexity to the Legislature and of discussion criticism by the pub le The sooner It i finished the better on this a well other Important Im-portant accounts |
