The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-03-08
AUGUSTA.
The Capital Punishment Bill
Amended and Passed by
the Senate.
Protest from the Eclectic College
Against the Surgeons Bill.
Special Dis : ateh to the Press

Special Dis sateh to the Press)
AUGUSTA March T.
Today was a field day in the House and
Senate, both branches holding two sessions
The Senate after six hours debate passed to
be engrossed the bill to restore, ,thegdeath penal
ty for murder in the first degree by vote of
Is to 8, with an amendment offered by Mr..
Stuhhs Of Franklin that if the jury with their
verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree,
make recommendation to mercy or the re-
spondent is found guilty of murder in the first
degree by confession and the court determines
that mercy should be exercised, then in such
case sentence shall be imprisonment at hard
labor for life This is substantially the amend
ment offered in the house by MI. Heath of Au-
gusta, and voted down in that body. Mr..
Young of Cumberland moved to refer the mat
ter to the next legislature and spoke at length
cataquis also favored this motion and strongly
opposed the bill Messrs. Wentworth of Pc
nobscot and Rush of Waldo made powerful
speeches in favor of restoring the death pen
atty The vote on the question to refer to the
next legislature stood 10 to Il. To break the
tie President Catler voted in the negative,
then Mr.. Gushee of Knox asked to have his
name called and recorded his vote in the aifir-
native continuing the tie. The motion to re-
fer was acco rdingly lost. The bill will come
up in the house tomorrow for concurrence and
final action. The decisive vote in both branch
es would seem to indicate that the bill will fall
between the two branches unless the house re-
cedes and concurs in the anne ndment of today.
THE ANTi-cRUELTY BILL.
Senator McLaughlin's bill for the preven-
ton of cruelty came up in the house in the
forenoon and was passed to be engrosssd as re-
ported, after some debate on section two which
forbids pigeon shooting. 1t will be remembers
ed that the bill passed the Senate unanimously
and its passage by the House with SO little dis
cussion is decided compliment to Mr. Nc
Laughlin.
REIMBURSEMENT OF TOWNS.
The resolve reported from the committee on
financial affairs, reimbursing certain cities and
towns which paid excessive State taxes in 1881
was Indefinitely postponed by the House this
afternoon after protracted debate.
THE GOVERNORS RECEPTION AT BANGOR.
A large number of members of the legisa-
ture go to Bangor tomorrow to attend the grand
military and civil reception rendered Gov
Ro5ie in Norombega Hall. The governor aud
staff and others leave on a special train at 10
a. M.
PROTEST AGAINST THE SURGEONS BILL
The faculty of the Eclectic College at Lew.
iston has presented to the legislature protest
against the passage of the so-called Surgeons
KIN .o:... 1l.s LII
number as follows:
because the bill is not designed to pre-
vent duackery SINCE it permits the practice
without registration of midwiyes not otherwise
practicing, the use of electricity or SO called
magnetism, the laying on of hands by clairvoy-
ants, and stipulates that materla medca and
medical thera peutics snail not be regarded in
determining persons eligibility to registra-
ton.
2.-Because it imposes a needless tax on the
physician by compelling him to travel miles TO
register before Clerk of Courts, Secretary of
State, or Governor and Council, while any
town clerk or county commissioner could
register genuine diploma just as we'll.
3.-The required standaFd-the standard of
the Maine medical school-is equivocal. Homoe- |
opsths could not pass it neither could Alopaihs
pass the standard of the Boston Homeopathic |
University.
4-The bill covertly deprives Homoeopaths |
and Eclectics Of all power on the board. SEQ.
says: "A majority Of the board 81 shall i
constitute quorum and less than a quorum |
shall not authorize the registration of any per-
son or the grant of any certificate OF registra-
tion" That is il quorum consists of one
Allopatb. one Hommopah and one Eclectic,
and candidate passes the board by two
thirds vote, still an Aopalh could prevent The
registration CT Eclectic or Homoenpatn. In
effect 1t Iepriyes Eciectcshsnd Hommopatbs of
any real representation and gives absolute de-
spotic power to the Allopathic portion of the
board
5-The bill makes it possible to compel an
Eclectic Or Hom@ ,path to pay $40 for regis
tratlon while the Alopath is admitted for $3. |
6.-Ihe bill has no hoDet intent It permits
quacktry, prevents any examination OF a ply
slcian's qualifications to cure disease aud gives
absolute power 10 an Allopathic board TO work
injustice to honest graduates of other Colleges,
aud serves no useful purpose.
THE bill Intentionally ignores the Eclec-
tic medical college, entrusted by State char
ter with the care OF educating physicians.
S.-The penalty is enor muusly out of propor-
ton to the offence. Magnetic nhysicians Elec-
trio physicians, ignorant midwives, druggists
and lay eTs on of hands are welcome 10 practice
free; but if an Eclectic orlHom@opath disobeys
the mandate OF an arbitrary Aliopathic depot
ism The penalty is $500 and years imprison-
ment.
9.-The bill is intended to destroy the Eclec-
tic Medical College. The bill was originated
aud advocated solely by Allopaths in the vicin-
ity of the Eclec.iciMedical College who are bit
terly hostile to it, and by the professors of the
rival Medical School of Maine" whose inter
est it is 10 desroy its influence, and has been
advocated by no other parties.
The Police Bill.
Mr.. Hale from the committee on judiciary
has reported ought not to pass on bill an act
relating to the appointment and removal of pc
lice officers in the city of Portland.
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