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Insane Asylum Funding Sparks Senate Debate 1870 Iowa
Lawmakers clash over funding for Independence and Mt. Pleasant asylums. Proponents push three hundred thousand dollars more for capacity gains aiding hundreds of mentally unfit statewide, while opponents warn of waste and prefer targeted allocations to Mt. Pleasant or broader reform.
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Monroe
Pierce
Mt. Pleasant
Independence
Nebraska
Iowa
Fairall
General Assembly
Tam
Jefferson
Mt. Pleasant Asylum
Ais
Senate
Traverse
Johnson
Mr. Fairall
Bulis
Beardsley
Hospital For
Independence Asylum
Larrabee
Committee On Judiciary
Dysart
Moore
Ootow
Prairie States
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Slope
Atlantic Coast Sea
Casady
Page
McNutt
My County
Page and Pottawattamie
Messrs
Senator McNutt
Dixon
Hawley
Mr. Moore
Vale
Mahaska
Committee On Agriculture
Patterson
Yeas
Atkins
Bennett
Cathcart
Chapin
Claussen
Couch
Donnan
Dunham
Fellows
Griffith
Hamilton
Hurley
Ireland
Keller
Long
Lowry
McKean
Mitchell
Newell
Rice
Smyth
Tuttle
Yale
West