The record-union., 1893-01-31

warm debate during the afternoon on the
bill which provides for ''the regulation
OF the practice of medicine and SURGERY
in California and the appointment of
State Board of Medical Examiners, who
are TO decide who are eligible to practice
medicine in the future. 1t is more famil-
iarly known as the "anti-quack" bill,
and was introduced by Senator Simpson.
Mr.. Ford offered an amendment, when
the bill was up for third reading, which
he explained was simply to cure an ap-
parent defect in the bill. The measure
meant to provide that the three schools
OF medicine-alopathic, eclectic and ho-
meopathic-should be represented on
the board, but it did not say so clearly.
lie proposed to remedy this.
Senator Carpenter seemed to fear that
some one Of the schools would get con-
troll Of the board and freeze out the other
two. He thought the bill should go back
to the Hospital Committee for reconstruc-
ton. Doctors were notorious for disa-
greeing, he said, and if they were given
an opportunity, such as the bill in its
present state offered, they would be fight
ing perpetually.
Senator Ford explained that it was for
the very reason suggested by Senator
Carpenter that he had offered the amend
ment.
Senator Seawell took a hand in the
affair at this iuncture. He, too, was
aware of the belligerent propensities of
the doctors and was satisfied that great
| GhnU16 ha falran RI lyaor,
| clawing each other. 1t was plain that
Senators Ford and Carpenter agreed as to
what the bill should provide. and he
thought he had an amendment that
would suit both. This was that the Gov
ernor should be instructed in the bill not
| TO appoint more than three members of
each school on the Board of Examiners
! This would prevent any one school get
ting control.
Senators Mahoney and Earl talked
about the doctors and so did several 9TH
ers, and the concensus of opinion was
that anything that would keep the med
icos from 'scrapping" was satisfactory
all around, so the bill was sent back to
the committee to be fixed up in that way.
GoUCHER WARNS UP.
Senator Goucher. the big statesman
from Fresno, was thoroughly mad when
he took his seat yesterday. Somebody
had shown him a dispatch in Sundays
| Chronicle, from his town, purporting to
give an account of a mass meeting there
to discuss county division, The dispatch
said that Mr.. Goucher and Assemblyman
Mordecai addressed the meeting, and said
that their action, fthe division bill came
toa vote, would be governed by the voice
! of the property owners in the proposed
new county of MADEIRA, and not by what
| the people of the old county should say.
The article further said that there was great
Indignation on the part of the Fresnoites.
and great confusion at the meeting in
consequence"
Senator Goucher rose to a question of
privilege, after reading the article, and
| denounced the Fresno correspondent in
bitter terms. He did not blame the paper,
he said, because it was at the mercy of
the correspondent. The latter he char
acterized as an "unscrupulous and malig-
nant liar" Continuing, he said, 1.-THE
fellow that wrote that must have been in
some dive drinking five cent beer instead
of at meeting; or else he didn't get his
usual hypodermic injection of morphine
that day."
AGAINST CATTLE TRUSTS.
Ragsdale's bill, ''to prevent combina-
tions to obstruct the sale of live stock in
the State of California" was passed
finally in the Senate yesterday and sent
over to the Assembly.
The measure did not experience much
tVOi1 flp in crattiprr tbvO,,cb
Senator Carpenter. who is always on
the alert, wanted to know what the
author expected his bill to accomplish.
Mr.. Ragsdale didn't appear to know
much about it, but Senator Ostrom arose
and explained the bill at length. He said
that under its provisions the big cattle
dealers could not dictate to the small
dealers where they must make their pur-
chases. and what price they must pay.
1t would put an end, he thought, to the
trust which had existed in this State for
years.
Senator Wilson made one of his radical
speeches in favor of the bill and against
these tellers that get together" etc. He
prefaces all of his speeches with the an
nouncement that he believes in "euual
rights to all men," and got it off again
yesterday. He was emphatically down
on these ''fellers," he said, because they
let the others do the work and took all
! the money That kind of business he
declared wouldn't go in beehive.