The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-03-27
Closing Session Of the Legislature
Held Yesterday.
THE BILL FOR WOMEN ON THE
SCHOOL BOARD KILLED.
The Cape EIizabethkTax Bill Was Killed
in the Senate Last Night-AgriculturaI
Societies Must Pay Taxes--O Other I'm
portant Business Rushed Through at
the Closing Session.
lspecia, to the PRESS. }

medical registration measure, came up in
he Senate this morning and Mr.. Penney of
PiscataquiS, moved the amendment, men,
Toned in this mornings PRESS, to strike
out all of the bill except the provision
that none but regularly graduated ply
scians may use the letters NJ D. after their
names. Mr.. Penney explained that as this
was a II the doctors wanted, be saw no rsa-
son for passing this long bill.
Senator Savage spoke earnestly il sup
port of the bill and Senator Reynolds of
nebec, briefly opposed it, ca ling atten-
tion to the fact.that the people had not ex-
pressed themselyessas in favor of 1t. Sem
ator Hume took the same grouLd but went
farther and asked why, if the object was to
| stamp out quackery, the eleventh section
made such numerous exceptions, includ-
ing the so-called Christian science which
Mr. Hume called the greatest of humbugs
and he spoke understandingly for he had
an intimate friend who was fool enough to
be Christian science doctor. Mr. HUNS
moved the indefinite postponement Of tbs
bill.
Senator Higgins of York, agreed that the
bill did not do all which it should do but he
thought that there was virtue in it and
that it should be passed. We do not allow
B man 10 run a ELedm DOdG IN tnlS 6tdJe uu-
less hs is licensed but we place no restrict
ions on the trea atment of the diseases of the
| body. Mr.. Higgins thought it right to pro-
tect the people of the state against the i'm
positions of men ealing themselves doctors
and taking large amounts of the peoples
money for their pretended cures. The bill,
Mr.. Higgins thought, should be passed as a
| beginning in the right direction.
| Mr. of ha eli nv ha
| legislature yesterday of the bill to establish
state board of education which was to
serve without pay. The statement was
then made that we are fast coming to
| government of boards and commissions.
Yet here is board which is to be pald al
though from the fees 1t receives and which
may sit as an autocratic body in oIe of the
| finest rooms of the state house. 1t may say
to some poor, struggling young man up in
Aroostook, "Come here and be examined.
We are the autocrat who determine who
| shall be physicians and surgeons
| The vote was then taken on Mr.. Penney
amendment and it was rejected five to
| thirteen. Several other amendents were
voted down including one offered by Nj.
| Nickerson to include among the exemp
tions officers of vessels who treat their crew
and passengers. Jndge Savage pointed
out that as such officers do not practice
| medicine for gain or hire, the bill does not
| apply to them.
| Then MIR. Hume renewed lis motion that
| the bill be indefinitely postponed and called
| for the yeas and nays. The friends of the
| bill won by three votes, elevenfIecording
| themselves in favor of the postponement
| and fourteen against it as follows:
Yeas-senators Cook, ,Engel, ,Hovey, Hume.
jackson, Niokerson, Penney, Reynolds.
| Walls, Week, ood-11.
| Nays-Senators Day, Ferguson, Gordon,
Harlow, Higgins, Hill Maxwell, Mitchell,
Prescott, Savage. spofford, Stone, Water
| house, Wiggin.
The bill was then passed to be engrossed
| in concur enoe with the House. After the
| vote, Mr.. Savage stated that Senator Ames
Washington, had left with the under
standing that he was to be paired on the
| ma tier through the session. The record
! was changed to make it appear that Mr..
| Ames and Mr.. Savage were paired, making
| the vote eleven to thirteen, with one pair.
| The other medical bill was later called
up by Mr.. Waterhouse, who moved it's in
| definite postponement. This is the bill for
the pi oteotion of veterinary surgeons. Mr..
| waterhouse believed it to be class lscisla-
In view otthe strong opposition to the
medical registration l,askeG for in behalf
of the 1000 or 1900 physicians in the state,
| it seemed to him unwise to pass this bill in
| favor of so few persons. Mr.. Savage ex-
4 planned that the measure simply prevented
/ persons not graduates of veterinary col
1 leges from claiming to be such graduates.
| Mr.. Warehouses; motion prevailed, kill
| ing the bill. The thee Senate members of
the judiciary committee cast the only votes
in favor of the bill. The House receded
| and concurred with tie Senate.
A TRIBUTE TO GENERAL CoNNOR..
Senate Prescott presented the following
4 resolve and moved that it be referred to
l the committee on finance:
Recognizing the gallant and distinguish
ed services rendered in the war for the
preservation of the Union by General Con-
nor, the present adjutant general of the
state, expressing to him our sympathy in
his illness, and in appreciation of the SER