Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-02-09
CONSTITUTIONAL.

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CONSTITUTIONAL.
In answer to a resolution OF the pre-
vious day the Committee for Courts oi
Justice reported that it was constitu-
tional for the State TO hire conyicts and
receive bonds OF railroads, &C., in pay.
mcnt instead OF money.
PU'r or THE CALENDAR.
BY Mr.. Kincheloe TO amend the
charter Of the Fauqnier Telephone
Company
HOUSE nils PASSED.
Toincorporite the Farmers Benevolent
Fire Association OF Franklin county.
To provide for a new registration in
the city OF stanton.
For the relief of J.. l.. Coston, late
treasurer of northampton county.
Supplementary to the laws now in
force for working the roads and repair
ing and rebuilding bridges in the county
Of Caroline.
To authorize Theodore Haughwont TO
erect picr-head on his oyster grounds
on James Tver.
For the relief of the taxpayers of
Carroll county.
To incorporate the Edgwood Cemetery
Company Of Augusta county.
10 regulate and establish measures to
be used IN buying and selling oysters in
this State in the shell.
To authorize Theodore Haughwont TO
erect q wharf on Chuckatuck creek.
70 incorporate the West-En Water
Company.
For the relief of ]. j. Dortch, of Hall
fax county, from a fine imposed Ivy Hall
fax County Court.
70 provide for the more efficient col
lection Of road fines in the county Of
Fluvanna.
10 provide for a new registration ID
the city of Manchester and the counties
OF Chesterfield and Powhatan.
To incorporate the Virginia Publish
ing Company,
To regulate the construction Of rail
roads through mountain passes and de-
files This and the preceding bill were
read three times and passed, under
suspension OF the rules.
THE MEDICAL ELL.
The much tllkcd-over bill to regu-
late the practice of medicine and sur
gerry in the State Of Virginia now came
up. Mr. Elan took the floor. The more
doctors the better, said he. The people
are their judges after all, not the Exam
ming Board The McGures. the Cul-
lens, the Moores, and the Wheats DO
not get their standing by their certif
Gates and diplomas, but by the judgment
Of the people. The people say whether
a doctor is reliable and steady and popu-
Ter, not the professors. The students
should be required TO have a general
knowledge of the ills to which flesh
is heir, but Mr.. Elan was opposed
10 stringent. high-hying examinations.
If they were to bemade, the poor people
would suffer for doctors, and he hoped
the measure would he defeated.
Mr. WaddiIl said the question, in his
estimation, had simmered down to
whether we Will follow the doctors of the
State or the boys who think themselves
doctors. What is there in the bill
Where Is the hardship? The Law
provides a stmi-annuai examination
here, and gives any student the privilege
of a special examination when he has
good cause to ask it. He believed the
doctors knew better what the law should
be than anybody else, and those he had
talked with wanted the bill passed.
Mr.. Figgat again spoke III advocacy Of
the BILL which lie claimed was for the
protection Of the people against impOs-
tors
Mr.. Elan interrupted Mr.. Figgat by
asking, "Would you believe in having
the Farmers Assembly to examine men,
before they can FARM"
eyes, said MIR Figgat. 4" if they had
the lives Of the people in their hands, as
the doctors DO.
elf they haven't the lives. they GER
tainly have :he living" remarked Mr..
Elam. Laughter.
Mr.. Martin, OF Norfolk county, hoped
the bill never would become a law. He
made a strong speech in opposition to it,
The pending question was then called.
The House agreed to order the pend
ing question, which was on the passage
OF the bill.
The bill passed by the following vote
AYRS.-Messr-. D. ". Anderson. Baldwin, Bris-
tow, John A. Brown, Catett, Coleman, Corhett.
Crismond, Dabney, Edwards Figgat, Flood. Cor
don. Hay, Herbert HObson, Huffman, Hunter.
kincheoc, Montague, Morton, hus,ain. Perkins,
Phillips, Pollard, Saunders, Sebrel silver, 1er-
rcn, r. II. Tyler, Waddnl. Watkins, Webb,
West, wilkins, and Wrght-3i.
NOEs.-Messrs. Arnold, Baskerville Bulord.
Carter. Counts. Graft DicSey, Edmondson,
Elan, Ewell. j. : Harris, Jarratt, Jones, john
son, Leggett, Nagrudcr, McCandlish, Mckee
parr, Pedigo, Porter. Quisenberry, Riner. Rogae.
J. Roberts, Scott smith. Spencer. Tin5ley, Lyon
6. Tyler, Williams, and Young-39.
The bill thus passed and now to be
acted on by the Senate, though not ex-
actly what was asked for by the Medical
Society of Virginia and members of the
State Board OF Examiners, is such as the
Committee on Propositions and Griev-
ances (Mr. Figgat chairman) thought
the situation demanded. and. it APP
peared, was accepted by the former. 1t
was opposed by the students OF the Vir-
ginia Medical College.
The chief change in the law proposed
was to do away with the examinations of
applicants by three members OF the
board who might be seen at their homes
scriatim, and to put in its place the fol-
lowing:
/. Be it enacted JV the GCBcraL As
ScmJW Of virginia. That section 4 of
an act entitled an act to regulate the
practice of medicine and surgery, APP
proved January 81, 1884, be amended
and re.enacted so as to read as fol
lows:
Section 4. 1t shall be the duty OF said
board, at any OF its meetings, TO examine
all persons making applications to them
who shall desire to commence the prac-
tice Of medicine or surgery in this State
and when an applicant shall have passed
an examination satisfactory as TO prof.
cheney before the board in session the
president thereof shall grant to such APP
plicant certificate TO that effect A fee
OF s. shall be paid to said board through
such officers or members as it may de-
signate by each applicant before such
is had In case any appi- |
can: shall fail TO pass satisfactory ex-
before the board he shall not
be permitted to stand any further exami-
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