Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-27

An act to incorporate the Somerset
Traction Company.
An act to provide for the printing ant
binding of department reports and othel
State publications and to regulate the
numbers of the same.
/ On motion of Mr.. Savage of Androscog
gin this bill was laid on the table pend
ing passage to be enacted
An act to provide for the calling of the
first annual town meeting of the new
town of Cape Elizabeth, in the county OF
Cumberland.
An act in relation to State printing.
An act to incorporate tho Wilton Water
Company.
An act in relation to the State binding.
| An act in relation To State examinp-
ton and certillcation of teachers.
An act to incorporate the Boothbay
Harbor Yacht Club.
| An act to make State tax sales moro
effectual.
An act to amend the charter of the Bar
| Harbor Water Company
| An act to regulate the purchase and
sale of Intoxicating liquors by cities and
towns
| An act To incorporate the Pejepscot
Telephone Company.
| Resolve providing for expenses of the
board of State assessors in performance of
| their duties as required by law.
Resolve~in favor of reducing the price of
| board at the Maine Insane hospital
| Resolve in favor of schools of instruc-
ton for teachers.
Resolve in favor of the committee on
military affairs
Resolve in favor Of the director of the
Maine agricultural experiment station.
| Resolve for the preservation Of ex-Gov
ernor Kings monument
Resolve in favor Of East Corinth
academy.
Resolve providing for the distribution
of educational documents by the State
superintendent of common schools.
Resolve relating to copying plans of
Maine towns.
An act to incorporate the Kcnncbago
Railroad Company.
| An act to amend an act to establish a
police court in the city of Rockland, ap-
proved March Ii. 1861.
An act to amend an act to incorporate
Madison Village Corpora alton.
Orders Of the Day.
House document No. 357 an act to regu-
late the practice of medicine and surgery,
specially assigned for today, was taken
from the table.
House amendments A, B and G were
adopted in concurrence.
Mr.. Penney of Piscataquis: This is
| no new matter; it has been before the
Legislature before, and believe that all
the people of the State are well acquainted
with the restrictions that the medical
fraternity wish to impose upon the pub
lie in this matter. The public do not
want this bill d; they have not asked for it.
There are number of circumstances here,
numbering about 5000 names, against
this legislation The friends of this m eas-
ure tell us that all they want is to have
these quacks prevented from using the
letters NJ. ID. after their names and think
it need not take all this long bill in order
to effect that. / do not stand here To aid
in any fraud, but am opposed to
this bill as it stands and beg to offer
amendments to the same.
Mr.. Penney then offered Senate amend
ments A and b.
Mr.. Savage of Androscoggin said that
he hoped the amendment would not be
adopted. He said that the reputable mem
bers of the medical profession had come
to the Legislature this winter asking for
this measure, and he thought that if the
members of the Senate had heard and seen
the opposition that was made to this bill
before the committee they would unani-
mously vote for its passage. He said that
the amendments Of the senator from
Piscataquis cut out all there was in the
bill, Ii and that this bill did not take away
~; al ~. for
might employ whom he liked; but il
merely provided that no one not entitled
to it should set himself forth as a pbysi-
clan for surgeon for use the letters M. ID
after his name He said that all the other
states but two had medical registration
laws, and that Maine should not I've the
last to adopt some such law. He spoke
strongly on the educational qualifications
necessary for this profession, and insisted
that the profession should be protected
as well as the public.
Mr.. Penney said that he did not wish
to be understood as in any way casting "a
slur on the medical profession, but that he
understood that all that had been asked
was that quacks should not USE the letters
NJ. d., and he thought that that might be
accomplished in a much shorter bin than
this one now before the Senate.
Mr. Reynolds of Kcnnebec:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen--I wish
to say word in opposition to this bill,
l do not understand that the people of
this State of Maine ask for law of this
kind. You will remember, in 1887, "a bill
perhaps more exacting than this one
passed both branches Of the Legislature ut
that time, and was vetoed by Governor
Bodwell. who received the commentator
of all with the exception OF the regular NJ.
DIS. Also two years ago, a bill similar to
his was killed in the committee room,
and now at the closing hours Of this ses-
sion, they come before this Legislature
with more restrictive medical legisla-
ton. Nearly 1900 citizens in The city Of
Portland, alone, and many hundreds
from other cities and towns as well, have
sent circumstances to this Legislature,
against any legislation that will deprive
them the right to choose their own physl
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