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ASVLll PROBERS START ON REPORT FINAL SESSION OF COMMITTEE WITHOUT FEATURES Strenuous Work Necessary for lie port liefore Legislature Adjourns W. IF. Caldwell in News and Courier. Columbia, Feb . 20.?Investigation into the affairs of the State Hospital for t'ae Insane, precipitated some weeks ago by a message from Governor Blease to the legislature, in which he transmitted a copy of a letter from Senator Tillman to a native of this State, ended this afternoon witn iwo short statements by Dr. Ernest Cooper and Dr. H. H. Griffin, neither of which was of material importance. The committee then went into executive session and at once began work on its report to the general assembly. Tiie resolution creating the committee calls for a report the present session, which means that tie members of the committee will be worked off their feet if an extensive report is presented before adjournment, which will likely take place Wednesday. Speculation is rife here as to what recommendations will be emoudied in the report. From all indications some change in the present system of management, generally spoken of as the "dual government'' of the asylum, will be urged upon the legislature. Dr. H. H. Griffin made the following statement before the asylum investigating committe this afternoon: Dr. Griffin's Statement. "Mr. Chairman, I desire to trespass upon year time for a few moments and I'ask your earnest consideration as a matter of justice to myself. "There appeared the following in a newspaper of February 14th: " 'That Dr. H. H. Griffin, a medical officer at the State Hospital for the Insane, in charge of the colored male ward, and regarded as one of the principal complaints aginst Dr. Eleanora B. Saunder^, a woman physician at the hospital, had passively listened to insulting remarks and criticisms from negro attendants against her, was the principal devol opment at the session. "Now, Mr. Chairman, I desire to most truly state that from my testimony delivered at the time and from my feelings in the matter, that I think a wrong fbas been committed upon* me be this publication. "I would not intentionally allow any incnltincr remartc maHo ahrmt anv lady in my presence, and I have never done, nor I hope I can never be so low as to submit to such a disgusting report spread abroad without my most vehement protest. Referred to Worses. "The statements to which my testimony referred were simply those of some nurses, many of whom had been are employed those who employ the u'hn felt f/vr roocnn that tVi ov <r ono " "V J.V4V i VUIWVU tuv/ whether good or bad, that Dr. Saunders did not treat them in the way they thought they shouild he treated as nurses of the hospital. "All over the South where negroes are employed, those who employ the negro of today may hear them say some word of praise or of censure about former employers or those wfhom they had worked for the day before. "I never for a moment believed nor heard from them that any insulting remark was made or suggested or meant, and neither for a moment would I have tolerated such a remark by them or by any one else. All those who know me know this." IVants It in Record. The Chairman, Senator Mauldin: You want to file this as your testi0 mony. The Witness, Dr. Griffin: I want to file this, yes. The Chairman, Senator Mauldin. Mr. Stenographer, will you take charge of it? The Witness, Dr. Griffin: Mr. Chairman, ther is another little matter that I want to?that I feel incumbent upuja mc iui tiit- uiu u. time lu uia.a.e some explanation of it. I will just read from the stenographic notes taken at the meeting at the institution on Deccember 12. The question was this: "Dr. Saunders is a single day?" My answer was: "I suppose that she is." Now, gentlemen, I did not say that she was supposed to be. Now, those two statements carry a different meaning, and, furthermore, I am in the habit of usinsr iust this exDression T think that probably in my testimony I may have used it many times. My frierds all know that; they have come to me and said that they knew and understood; but for some of those I . don't say this. Says Don't Xean Insult Now, when Dr. Saunders evidently misconstrued the meaning of that an swer, my reply was this: "I did not mean it that way, if you so understood it. I did not mean it as an in I ' I suit at all. i certainly ha e no re- i ?? | flection. I must say. on Dr. Saunders' j j character-?most emphatically?and ij i most humblv beg your pardon if you ; took it that way. 1 certainly meant j nothing of the sort. Gentlemen, I would like for that go on the record. Now, 1 wish to also state that I was ! not present at the lirst part of that j ! mnotino- whpTi dnvprnor B1 ease's let- ' iters were read. I had 110 knowledge | whatever of them and they were not a j sequel to t.iat, as the impression probably has gone out. i i And I wish to make that statement. 11 just feel that, in justice to myself, I ! should make these two statements. The Chairman, Senator Mauldin: i | Anything further you desire to state? The Chairman, Senator Mauldin: Any question from the committee? Anybody interested desire to ask the witness any questions? Anyone else care to ask a question of the doctor? Does any witness who has been examined and testified desire to go on tne j stand again?v Has anybody present anything to of; fer that would enlighten this ccmmit|tee on the subject in issue? Senator Young: Mr. Chairman, we have gone into the hospital matter out ; i here in the city pretty thoroughly; but j as far as the response to your inter- ' , rogatory is concerned, there is nothing j further. Now, we have not possibly mQ gone far enough into the park matter. aa^ Now, under that resolution, I do not al know whether we should examine any witnesses along that line or not. * of Thursday's Session. of t Columbia, Feb. 19.?"I am contend- i bef ' ^ 4-Virt aIao ^inor n f mir nornA on/^ Wit j lllg lui Liic Licanug ui iii.* uaiu^ anu. | my reputation and not for the reten- Pla tion of my position," declared Dr. ; Eleanora B. Saunders, woman physi- oi i cian at tfae State Hospital for the In-janc sane, before the Asylum investigating at committee of the general assembly * this afternoon. j ^ac "I considered the letters of Gover- jotl1 | nor Blease and the remark of Dr. t0 1 | Griffin a slander," said Dr. Saunders, dei in a statement simple in its narrative. ? Every listener bent closer as Dr. the ! Saunders told of the executive meet- 1 Sai . C f il. A A A V O VI 1 O 'tTlll nig ui t lie uu i/c^cniuci j.~, 1 when she was condemnd on charges j ! of interfering with other members of; c^12 the medical staff, and neither her j am j father nor attorney was allowed to be we] ; present. Not in a spirit of denuncia- the j tion, but with womanly dignity, Dr. s^e 1 Saunders impiessed her hearers with j ate I the fact tftat the position is not what! the I i she is-, trying to retailn it is her good Pec ! name and her reputation which she difi wants cleared of charges which, she in says, are unfair, unjust and untrue. ma In telling of the executive meeting otn of the regerts (:i December 12, when tn( j she suddeuly confronted with com- ^ie plaints from other members of the m? medical staff with 110 previous knowl- p*e edge, and when alone with her ac- iier , cusers, .she said this afternoon that i she tried -vainly to tell them her work mt< in at the asylum nai been only for the best intends or ths institution and bee in an effort to build up the hospital eve and advance the cc-iifort and well be- sbe ing of the poor unfortunates there, and f)pi of how Dr. Griffin insulted her and she left the room in tears. ^?a Considers Charges Slander. clia Dr. Saunders said that if Governor C0E Blease intended to slander her, it was unfair that he should say it was best * for her that the matter be closed. "It ''0 was unfair that the governor should Dur i act both as my prosecutor and my inS j judge," she said. In that meeting, she cila isaid, her professional integrity and wei her personal conduct were assailed, s^e ;and the charges made by Governor her {Blease and others we'e unjust, unfair tor^ | and untrue, and she considered tlhem a ! slander. ian "I saw no reason why I should ac- Put j cept the accusation," she said, referr- nur j ing to the alleged unfairness of her ^er treatment before the executive session ^er of the regents and of her declination aws to accept the suggestion to end the a^? j matter, "as it was best for the young bel] I lady," as stated by Governor Blease Pita ; and the regents in their resolution re- notJ fusing the request of her father, Rep? ? ? - . woe resentative u. jl. saunaers, to reopen na* I the investigation. ^or Dr. Saunders said she reused to al- D | low the matter to be Shushed up and ! the evil tongue of silent suspicion be firs ! noised abroad and its poisonous influ- ern' ence get at work. She wanted the ing full light turned on and the whole sov matter threshed out in the open, she wei said. All she asked was for a fair trial s^e and this was refused her by Governor j Blease and the board of regents, she re? | stated. cm^ How without social life, continuous- 5lov ly on duty, and with no outside practice, she had labored for seven years ^us to upbuild and uplift the State Hos- ger j pital for -tfiie Insane, and that what ^eE . ? - r>7e>! j work: she did in otner departments was ? in the spirit of cooperation and with ^ur no knowledge that there was objection tiie from the heads of those departments, I was told this afternoon by Dr. Saunders, the woman physician, whose re Goiii Cash March 1 We sell you Supplies, G; reduction. Will also do yo We will issue coupon 1 supplies, and also for gasc 11 i . 1 .1 / any book worn to no, tnerei Summer' vai the regents have stated would re ended what they say is friction Hi n ct? v 111 m Surprised at Complaints. )r. Saunders said she knew nothing any objaction from otaer members ;he medical staff until she was haled ore the regents on December 12, hout previous notice, and the comints made there. Everything she , slie stated, was wiui me approval Dr. Babcock, the superintendent, I none of the other heads protested the time, and not until December Sne said that up to that time' she I no knowledge that her work was er than satisfactory to the regents, G-overnor Blease, to the superintenit and to the public. Jeginning with her appointment to medical staff in May, 1907, Dr. mders rapidly sketched the many ags she had done to bring the ?f<-v fnmolr. Hanoi-tmonf lmHfkr llPr ICC lduaiC tmviiv UAtvtvt | irge up to a high state of efficiency 1 1 how the interests of cadh patient re looked after. Her interest in , patients, the many kindly things { ! did for the families of unfortun- j s, how she always tried to make patient feel at home and the home >ple satisfied, how she examined the 'erent cases and tested for causes an effort to cure the patients, the ny improvements in sanitary and er ways ana now eacn year sue naa | ?d to get more knowledge to fur- j r help her in the work sjie is dowas easily gleaned from the simway in which Dr. Saunders gave ' side of the case to the committee. Without any idea of trespassing or erfering, she said, she often helped other departments and there had in Che most cordial relations with j :ry one, as she thought, and wnat j s did was in a generous and dooper- | sre spirit, she said, and suddenlj', in member, she was dragged before the ird and the "unjust and unfair" irges made against her, and she was tdemned unfairly and untruly. Talked With the Governor. )r. Saunders told of how she went { } Governor Blease with her head se the Saturday prior to the meetof tine regents last July, when the nges of subordinates at the asylum :.e made. She said she had stated would not apply for reelection if work was not thoroughly satisfac- i Y to every one. She. told of having ! nked the governor for his assis ce in getting the hospital nurses on an equal footing with other ses and said that the governor told he would use his influence to have retained. She stated she went ty, and after the reelection, went ut her duties, and in her efforts to d the patients and upbuild the hosil, thought no more of it, knew tiing of any complaints against , until on December 11, when she ; served with a notice to appear bei the regents the following day. t. Saunders cnoked with emotion ;n she related having seen for the t time ihe letter written by Govor Blease to Dr. Babcock demandher removal, and she said the ernor's charges she considered J e against her character and they, stated, were untrue, and unfair. ! termed her experience before the ents an1 Governor Blease on Deber 12 "harrowing," and reiterated v in vain she trie! to tell them she I done no i rong, and how she re j a- ~ M ~ c 4-"U ^ eu to acut-pt iut^ d^uuu ui cut; jc- i its to hush up the natter, for she aanded that her good name be \ ared and she wanted the full light 1 ned on, and let everything stand in open. )r SaUi.ders answered effectively! le statements about nurses' funds, i I ! ich she had handled, by presenting t ; I i ig to ! st, 1914 asoline and Tires, all at a ur work cheaper. See Us. looks for your repairs and dine. 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