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PAYS HER TRIBUTE RHPOItT OF PROBERS VRS'DIMS 1>R. SAUN IYER'S WORK. * CONDEMN SECRET TRIAL Iteport of Committee Adopted Williout Debate by Both Houses of 1^ialaturo?-Administration of Wards for Negroes Held Inefllcieut?Trial by Regents Condemned. Wednesday afternoon tho loglslativo committee of investigation reported to the general assembly regarding its inquiry into tho affairs of the State Hospital for the Insane. The report was adopted without dobate in both houses. It follows: To the General Assembly of tbo State of South Carolina: The undersigned committee has in accordance with your instructions contained in concurrent resolutions, House No. 793, Senate No. 571; thoroughly gone into the actual and supposed troubles existing at the State Hospital for the Insane. The evidence, which is voluminous, is attached hereto?herewith reported as the basis of our llndings with the request that it bo printed along with this report in permanent form. Cause of Discord. Wo find the cause of much of the discord, trouble and friction leading up to and resulting in this investigation to be fundamental: State Constitution, 1 895, Article XII, Par. 2. "The regents for the State Hospital ior the Insane and tbo superintendent thereof, who shall ho a physician, ehall he appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. All other physicians, officers and employees or the hospital shall bo appointed by the regents, unless otherwise ordered by the general assembly." Hence, the superintendent has no voice in the selection or dismissal of any subordinate. He becomes purely an advisory officer, only when advice is sought, and has no effective control or authority, resulting in such a condition that effective work and labor of a unified staff is Impossible. In our opinion the staff should be selected by the superintendent by and a - f . % wiiu 1111 cuiiBuiu 01 uie Doara or regents, thereby insuring full harmony between the superintendent and his staff and all acceptable to tho board of regents. The superintendent to enforce duty and discipline should also have the power and authority to suspend any member of his staff for cause, subject to appeal, to tho board of regents, where such suspended staff officer should have available all the rights of trial guaranteed to persons accused in tho courts of this State. Efficiency of Administration. Tho committee finds tho administration of tho colored wards, (male and female) inefficient. Tho physicians employed to look after these wards live, and are resident physicians in the city of Columbia and engage in general practice. On December 21, 1913, there wore four hundred and thirteen colored males in that ward, and there were treated during the yeor 1913 five hundred and seventy-two. At tho same date, December 13, 1913, there were three hundred and fifteen colored females In the ward, and there were treated during the year 1914, four hundred and sixty-three. The staff officers In charge of these two wards live in the city of Columbia, and they spend from one hour to four hours (more frequently one hour than four hours) per day at the Hospital for the Insane, and this covers the time spent In answering correspondence relative to their department and patients, hence, it is manifest that such a supervision and inspection can bo only perfunctory, with the evident result that the caro of these unfortunato patients is largely left to ignorant colored nurses in charge. It is our opinion that the staff officer in charge of any ward department in the State Hospital for the Insane should live and reside within ( the enclosure and be on duty and quichly available at any time both day and night and give liis undivided time and attention to the helpless unfortunates entrusted to his caro and guardianship. Kvaminatlon of Patients. It appears from the evidence of the physicla:. of the colored female ward that no specific examination is made es to the character of insanity and ilia at i on It liau pnaalin/1 u'i/1 t ?.!.?> f %IIV DVU^v ?V !!? " I II?IM lliv; f/II J elcal condition of the patient on her admission to the ward. The statement contained in the commitment papers originating in tho Court of Probate and tho general conclusions obtained from "looking them over" generally determine the line of treatment adopted. This policy ignores 1 the fact that the design of the State Is to restore all patients not incurable and helpless, and that the first step in reaching such a conclusion is to determine by painstaking diagnok\ ill .****'? sis: (a) The character of Insanity. (b) Its stage of development. (c) Violence of attack. (d) Can a cure be effected. (e) And the means. Practical and efficient treatment can only follow knowledge of ail tho causes and facts and such knowledge can not bo obtained through commitment papers and "looking over the patients". Inspection by the Superintendent. The vast volume of detail now devolved on tho superintendent In having oversight of all the business of this great and heterogenous Institution and also in promoting and supervising the great work at the State Park renders Impossible in him to glvo such close inspection to the supervision of tho different wards filled as they are with patients, as Is desirable and necessary for tho best interests of tho inmates and tho discipling of the Institution. He should he relieved by a business manager, whose duties should he other than of a medical nature appointed by tho superintendent, by and with the consent of the board or regents, and subject to suspension and removal as herein recommended. The superintendent would then have tho time with a staff officer to make thorougfi inspection of each ward of the institution at least once a week, and daily advice and consult with his staff and subordinates, and these duties ho should be required to do in preference to all other duties and labors that might he devolved upon him. Subordinate Employees. Tho members of the staff should rk?w?li l?n tf/\ * 1? ^ h ? ! 1 - 1 ! ' * v>n iiuvu in*? nuiuuriiy and rigni IO select all subordinates in their respective wards, subject to the approval of the superintendent, and each staff oflicer should also have the privilege and power to suspend or discharge subordinates under them by and with the approval and consent of tho superintendent. Reports?Staff Ofllccrs. We find as a matter of fact that all staff officers do not make reports in writing to tho superintendent or file them as a record of their departments. Kvery member of the medical staff should make a full and complete report In writing to tho superintendent at least once a week, and file tho duplicate of tho same among tho records of the general olllce, and should suggest by way of recommendation such measures and treatment as world bo beneficial to patients in tho treatment of their special maladies and for the good of tho institution. Wo find as a matter of fact tome staff officers niako their reports and recommendations only once per annum and in such general and synthetic terms as to enablo the superintendent to mako his annual report and recommendations to the general assembly. Pharmacist. There is at present no licensed pharmacist at the State Hospital for tho Insane to compound drugs and fill the prescriptions of tho superintendent. and staff officers. There should bo a most skillful pharmacist at the State Hospital for the Insane. One who is licensed by the Pharmaceutical Board of this State, for many times a prescription filled and administered means the life or death, sanity or insanity of the person to whom it is administered, and more especially to tho helpless patient, dependent only upon tho wisdom of the physician and the prescription compounded. Dentist. What is said of the pharmacist may truly be applied to tho dentist, he should by all means bo a licensed ono with some experience. Chaplain. , We find, for many years tho duties of the chaplain have been faithfully performed at a salary of twenty-five dollars per month, applications were advertised for at said salary, but when tho board of regents met in July last to elect a chaplain at tho salary stated, after electing tho chaplain they changed tho salary , to nino hundred dollars per annum, J or seventy-five dollars per month. Wo think this wrong. If a raise in salary had been doomed justifiable ' ? A ,1 I 1- I ~ A ? - " ? - ? aim ut'siruuiu nouce or u siiouKl liave appeared In the advertisement for ap- > pllcats. This six hundred dollars difference per annum would liavo gone far in the employment of a licensed i pharmacist and a dentist, and wo rec- ' ommend that no salary he paid great- i Br than the salary advertised and call- 1 ed for In the advertisement. < Rules and Regulations. There should be a rigid system of rules and regulations proposed and promulgated by the board of regents ( but, there should also bo some fun 1 In niOlif !l1 riiloa o rwl ~ ~ A 1 . mu d mm i cfiuiuuuiia auupi ed and passed by this genoraly asscm- 1 bly to govern the officers of tho State * Hospital for the Insane in their work and duties. By the same authority as Interpreted by the supremo court In the case of Pinckney vs. Henegan, i 2 Strebart Paw, pages 2f>3, and the ] State, ex. rel. ay vs. Farnum, 72 S. C., l page 170. Tho general assembly may < lay down rules bv concurrent rosolu- ] lions for the guidance and government of State ofllclals In tho discharge of duties, and we recommend the adoption of the concurrent reso- < Iutlon that wo propose and that will < follow this report. ] State Park. I In the Judgment of the committee, ! based on the groat preponderance of the evidence adduced during the investigation, the State Park property is ideal and admirably adapted to and for tho uses and purposes for which It was purchased, and ought to bo and should ho developed as rapidly as tho State can afford to do so to tho end thot the great congestion now existing at the State Hospital for tho Insane may bo gradually and completely rellovod. It is our opinion, based upon the testimony, that all patients of tho classes which will bo mostly benefitted by the quiet and pure air of the country should be first removed thereto, and those classes only which can ho most advantageously treated in tho present quarters in this city be retained. There is now a modern and splendid building completed at the State Park, which should at once bo equipped and occupied, relieving as much as possible the distressing congestion, now so universally deplored in the State Hospital in this city?giving more and better room to those who are unfortunately left behind?and acting as a double blessing. I>r. Kleanora II. Saunders. i Your committee went fully and minutely into the complaints, insinuations, inuendoes. Inquiry and charges against Dr. Kleanora 13. Saunders. Wo llnd no evidence to sustain 1 any of them. Sho Is not guilty of 1 any wrong intention or wrong-doing. ' Tlioro is no breath of even a suspi- ' cion as to her moral character none against her professional reputa- ' tion and conduct and career, in her ethical department and in all of her I conduct In or out of the Institution, ( tho State Hospital for tho Insane. ' The fe-w and insignificant acts on ( which complaints wero based were ' the direct result of requests from the superintendent?her superior officer, ( and wero executed in tho discharge J of duty to suffering humanity and are ' to ho commended and praised other than condemned. J Her work and labors in tho State Hospital for the Insane bears elo- ' /.linn* it-- ? ' \iuv'in li iiiuiu iu inrnmarKaoio t n i tiative, aided by tireless energy and dominated by (be womanly woman's overflowing love for unfortunate humanity, which love, energy and tireless devotion is manifested by her every movement, of which ho has been tho mainspring and which is shown in the results in every department of work, which sho has touched and which even her critics in almost every instance have admitted. Wo condemn tho method of trial of Dr. Saunders adopted on December 12, 191.1, and hope that tDo records of the State will never show a repetition of such procedure. Wo refer to this merely to call the attention of the members of the general assembly to the necessity of providing against any repetition of such a proceeding in the future?as under a proper and logical system of rules and regulations no such proceeding could havo obtained. Irresponsible power is that power which is exercised without rule or reason and from which there is no recognized method of appeal. There should be no such power vested in any person or persons in tho State of South Carolina, and there should bo rules carefully prepared adopted and passed to nrovont another such occurrence. l)r. J. \V. Babcock. 1 Wo commend tho stand of tho su- r porlntendent, I)r. J. W. Babcock, in 1 this acute exigency and throughout 8 tho subsequent aftorniath, when ho 1 championed tho right, not only of his n loyal and truo subordinate and staff ^ ofllcer, Dr. Eleanora 13. Saunders, but of a woman, whoso ovory instinct is 8 shown to ho for the right, the inter- 0 ests of tho unfortunate patients un- 8 dor her care and tho host interests of the institution. c s Recommendations. Wo recommend that this report bo n printed in tbo journal and that the ^ report and tho resolution under \ which wo acted, tho evidence taken ^ and the concurrent resolution con- j taining tho proposed rules be printed ^ In a separate report and at least three t hundred copies, one of which shall be a furnished each member of the gen- u f?ral assembly and tho Stato oilloors and regents and officials of tho State \ [lospital for the Insane. j ? S Burglar Kills Nlglit Cashier. r Harry Edwards, night cashier of t( in express company at Corning, N. ft V., was killed early Monday and David Dunn, former employee turned R burglar, confessed tho crimo when japtured. ? e etnow C auses Wreck. I? Five persons were Injured when|H< Lho Wabash railroad's Continental | Umited ran into threo road engines ^ it Decatur,I 11., Monday. The engl- h necr of the passenger train was blind?,d by the snow. . ? . Farmer Blown to lMcces. While blasting holes for planting p citrus fruit, Ralph Itobberts of Tain- n pa, Fla., was blown to atoms by a (] premature explosion of a charge of dynamite. Several sticks exploded in j( bis hand. j, ? * ti Keeping Mexican Refugees. The United States has so far spent ^ $142,25 4 on Mexican refugees, sol- pliers, women, children and campfol- ^ lowers harbored on the border, and C( the oo??t each month will hereafter be ^ 175,000. g HAS HIM EXECUTED ? VIIjTjA AROUSES INDIGNATION BY KILLING ENGLISHMAN CLAIMS HE ATTACKED HIM r-? Mush Meeting at El Paso Protests to Washington?Wilson and Bryan Confer?Cnitod States Waits for Further News?Villa Telegraphs llis Defense. A storm of indignation broke Friday along the American towns on the Mexican border when it became known that William S. Benton, a British subject and wealthy land holder in Mexico, had been executed by rebels in Juarez after he had made a protest to (Jen. Francisco Villa about alleged depredations of the constitutionalists. At El Paso a mass meeting was called for Cleveland square but Mayor Kelley announced that lie would suppress any attempt to hold the meeting in the open, as he considered the plan a dangerous one. A hall was accordingly rented and resolutions were adopted with a shout. They characterized as "cold-blooded ind heartless" the assassination of Benton, charged that the State deini'ltnnut n( i. .. .i ,'?? viuvnv uv u (loinu^tuii 11 Lid perdstently suppressed facts concerning Lruo conditions in Mexico" and declared that "at the present moment )ur government is harboring General Ynez Salazar who lias committed outrages against our people," ;ls well is Maximo Castillo, for many months lead of a bandit band in Northern Mexico. Villa was denounced in strong terms. After a day of great excitement caused by the announcement of the execution of Ronton and the public nass meeting tlio city of 101 Paso iwoko to discover that Gustav Rauch, m American, accused by tlio rebels it Juarez of being a spy, and two , [Englishmen, John Lawrence and a , nan named Curtis, had disappeared. ( Rauch disappeared from his cell , Saturday evening. This was discov- ( ^red bv relatives who reported the 'act to Thomas Edwards, American ( onsul at Juraze. He is believed to ( lavo been shot. The disappearance j if Lawrence and Curtis was reported >y Samuel Stewart, an English sol- ( lier of fortune. Ho said they went ;o Juarez Wednesday to aid in the march for Benton, a schoolmate of Lawrence's and wero seen no more , 3y himself or other friends. Secretary Bryan immediately orlered an investigation of the killing , Will- S Ron lnr> ilm n*IHoU ....t. .. ?. ~. wv.i vx/ ii, im ninii Oil U- | loct at Juarez. Ho announced that ( int 11 all facts in the case had been ( gathered from all available sources, j 10 opinion would bo expressed by lie State department. All informa- , ion received will be transmitted to ^ lie British government. Secretary * Iryant Instructed Consul Edwards to lemand adequate protection and a air hearing for Gustav Bauch. i A version of Benton's death was nado public in a telegram from headluarters in Juarez. According to the nessago, "Benton entered Villa's ipartment very unexpectedly, de- < nanding protection for his interests ( ind bitterly insulting Villa and the ( onstitutionalist army. General t /11a told him that ho considered him ( m enemy to the constitutionalist \ ause and that in order that ho might [ lot continue to work against it, he, > /ilia, was going to pay him the value t ?f Ills property (Benton's) in the t tato of Chihuahua. \ "Benton becamo very exasperated { ,t this and drew his revolver, in- ^ ending to kill the general, but the atter immediately knocked him [own, disarmed him and sent him to ail. Benton afterwards was tried ( iy a special military tribunal, senenced to death and duly executed, < 11 in accordance with the laws and j sages of war." f The record of the court martial of j Villiam S. Benton made public at , uarez late Saturday, asserts that the j cotchman was present, that ho was y epresented by a rebel ofllcer as at- v orney and was permitted to testify nd that the session was public. Ho was executed for attempted rmed violence against Gen. Villa, ^ eclares the record, was found guilty f giving aid and comfort to the enmy by giving them cattle and forgo and by giving them information. lenton's friends on tho American Ide of the Rio Grande roceived the oport with sneers. They pointed to tieir knowledge of many years that o guarded against possible serious J esults of his high spirit and tempor 3 y never carrying a pistol. Tho state- ' lents that Benton was allowed to ' ratify and that the proceedings were 8 nhllc carried no conviction to the ion who assert that their friend was ellberately murdered. Witnesses against Benton were Mair Manuel E. Banda and Adrles Far- 1' is. It does not appear that Villa tes- ^ fied. Banda and Farias swore that n enton called on Vl'la Tuesday afsrnoon " at an inopportune molent." Witnesses were with Villa at io time. Benton, they said, made 0 smplaint of rebel depredations on I is ranch, 'Los Remedios," in the o tate of Chihuahua, and asked per- h mission to return to It. Villa replied that it was not his desire that Benton should return to Mexico, because ho was well known as a sympathizer with Huerta, "to . whom he had Riven help in many ways, giving information of the movement of our troops; having intimate relations with the 'rod flag' . chiefs (Orozco and Salazar) and considering tlie Constitutionalists as rebels and bandits. "Villa," tho report continued, "stated that because Benton was a foreigner, bis property had not been confiscated, but that ho must remain out of tho country because ho was an element destructive of the peace and prosperity of the country. Tho accused answered in harsh and violent terms and assorted that no human power could keep him out of Mexico or cause him to desert bis property to further depredations. "Then he said he was as good a man as Villa and at the same moment lie drew a pistol from his hip pocket. But the General was ready and jumped for him and struck at the same time the persons present leaped upon him, that he might not make " an attempt on the life of Gen. Villa." Witnesses were convinced that had they not been present the general would have been murdered. The record gives Benton's testimony as follows: "lie said that he camo at 10 or 1 I o'clock in the morning to see Gen. Villa and inform him that revolutionists or at times parties of bandits had done much damage to his ranch, 'Los Uemedios,' destroying juoperty and stealing cattle. He had come to tell Gen. Villa of these tilings but tho general accused him of being friendly to the Federals and suggest- ' ed that the rebels buy 'Los Uemedios' ? as Witness was not u-nntoil i?i Mr>v5/>r? .. .?.> %t/\? ill IHVA1W. Witness told (Jen. Villa that he was unjust and several other things that annoyed the general, but witness had ' no intention of harming tho general or anyone else. He said he had nothing to do wiili Iluerta or the red flaggers and was indifferent to the c politics of the country. This was all i lie had to say." t Upon the truth or falsity of Villa's 1 statement that Henton tried to kill t him will depend the views both Great ? Britain and tho United States will t take of the affair. In official circles 1 the prevalent belief is that in absence t of satisfactory evidence to the con- \ trary it will be difficult for this gov- 5: eminent, at least, to reject Villa's r version. To do so without satisfac- 1 tory proof to the contrary, it is point- 1 [Ml out by some officials, would be un- I aeeessarilly to provoko unfriendly re- s lations with tho constitutionalist i chief, who is in control of a vast territory adjacent to the United States j in which are many foreigners about i whose protection the United States is t solicitous. u President Wilson and Secretary j Bryan Sunday conferred briefly on c the Mexican situation. No announce- r Clients wero made after the confer- l ance but the complete report of the e axocutlon in Juarz. of William Benton j; is awaited beforo tho view of the t] ecovernment toward tho incident is s til ado known. * p MAN KI NS AMUCK. ? Dkluhoman Kills Ono Relative and j Wounds Two Others. Everett Norris, a farm hand, aged 12, of Wellston, Okla., killed ono rol- a itive, probably fatally wounded two t others, Including his father, Wedneslay, and rodo away with the declara- ^ ion that he intended to slay the chll- g iron in a nearby school house. Neigh- 8 jors hastily armed themselvos but g jut when Norris saw the display of ^ voapons ho veered away and rodo ino Wellston, where ho was captured c >y the town marshal. While a mob p vas gathering the otTlcer whisked his y )risoner out of town to Chandler, t vhoro he was placed in Jail. Norris, according to the authorities j mgagcd in a dispute early Wednes- g lay with his father, Frank Norris, ov- 0 >r the renewal of a note. During the 0 >rogress of the quarrel, it is charged, n sforrls shot his parent four times. He r, mmediately repaired to tho adjoining $ arm of W. W. Itiley, his father-in- \f aw, where he opened fire on Riley p md John Alcorn, Riley's son-in-law. ^ liley fell dead at the first shot and Vlcorn dropped probably fatally vounded, ? ? ^ Illinois Train Snowbound. p After having been tied up in enow ^ Irifts for nearly ,16 hours, passengers w >n stalled Illinois trains Wednesday c, eached Decatur. They were rescued w urn as ineir rood supply had dwlu- 81 llod to six eggs. Mown Into Snowdrift. Wolfgang Chlmmel was fatally In- q ured when blown out of a second- 0 tory window Into a snowdrift, at Mtteburg, Pa., Thursday when bis n ionic was wrecked by a gas exploIon. Eyeshado Explodes. R. W. Miller of Chicago Thursday Tt lied from injuries caused by tho ex- b iloslon of a celluloid eyeshado which In 10 wore at work. A spark from an h ,re light Ignited the shade. w ?. Flro Drill Saves Them. While flro was destroying the $60,00 school building at Rochester, ni 'a., Tuesday, 700 scholars marched w ut in good order without one being nrt. h( THE HORRY HERALD CONWAY. S. C. Published Every Thursday. THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1014. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. H. H. WOODWARD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. CONWAY, S. C. J}. B. SCARBOROUGH. Attorney ut liaw. CONWAY, S. C. II. H. BURROUGHS, Physician and Surgeon. CONWAY, S. C. W. E. McCORD. Dental Surgeon. CONWAY, S. C. RENE RAVEN EL, Land Surveying and Drainage. ipivey Building, Conway, 8. ?. SMITH SEEKS DATA. _ _ . :-rrin ><>u(h Carolina Senator Goes to Ellis Island to Study Immigration. Senator E. D. Smith of South Car ilina, chairman of the Senate com nittee of immigration, left Washing on Saturday for New York, where le will make a thorough and exhausivo investigation into this subject. <ot satisfied with receiving informaion relative to immigration probems from others, Senator Smth has ;ono to the principal source through vhicli immigrants enter the United States?Ellis Island?and will ro nain there long enough to satisfy limself as to what kind of law should >e placed on the federal statute >ooks looking hereafter to the admision and exclusion of immigrants into he United States. Although Senator Smith had no articular statement to make regaining his trip before leaving Washingon, except that ho proposed to see uid investigate for himself, it's quite robable that his impressions will be onveyed to the president upon his eturn to Washington next week. It as been known for se\cral days that verything possible? is being done to reparo a bill which will meet presilential approval as it is not the deice of Democratic leaders to bring town a veto if there is any way to revent it. ? SENATE CUTS III I .E. fouso Appropriation Measure ReceiveH a Sliarp Reduction. The finance committee of the Sento made its report on the approprialon bill Monday night, reducing the mount carried in the bill as passed y the House by $325,000. If the lenate's view prevails it will mean a ix-mill levy. All new buildings for tato institutions provided for in the ill as passed by the House wore tricken out by the Senate's finance ommittee. Among these are the proosed new law building for the Uniersity, new gymnasium for Wlnhrop, now building at Cedar Springs, new building for the Industrial Tome at Florence and $25,000 for a tato tuberculosis hospital. The item f $10,000 for the State military onampment is stricken out and the laintenanco fund for the militia is educed by the State committee to 15,000. The asylum appropriation ? reduced $10,000 and the amount roposed for the State board of ealtli is cut to $20,000. Shoots His Guests. Having invited hie Itlends to a irewell party Herman Peters of hlladelphia Saturday attempted to ill his boarding house mistress lien Hne rerusea to elope. Ho suoseded In killing two others and ounding three. He then comralttod uicido. ? Falls From Running Hoard. While pulling a freight train near heater Thursday, Engineer Herring f the Southern, in attemntinr tn O vv take some adjustments, fell from tho unnlng board of his engine. His Iniries are not fatal. ? . Train Runs Into Creek. When a passenger train on the urlington railroad went through a. ridge into a creek Monday at Urbel, Mo., two trainmen wore seriously nrt, hut none of tho 100 paasengera as badly injured. ? ? Fire Kills Two. Two men were killed, a scoro had arrow escapes and several firemen ere hurt Tuesday in a fire that vept through the four-story Baker's otel at 'New York.