The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-04-26
Won BY MANY WOMEN
|ua,srIAN SCIENCE VICTORY IN NEW
YORK STATE.


:, Besieged . senste Committee--ssua-
y, CosxeshaiI Persuadsd 60 Amend His
.,u prohibiting An but Licensed Phys
,,,.us From PrsOtlcing the Healing Art.
Senator Henry j.. Coggeshall of Onei-
county, N. Y. was the center Of one
the most remarkable demonstrations
GENTLY that ever took place in the
mate chamber at Albany. The other
prncipants were fully 500 women, and
- occasion was hearing before the
pmmittee ON public health on bill in
Ioduced by Senator Coggeshall prohib-
Inc any one not regularly licensed az
nbysician from practicing the healing
The women who crowded into the
mate chamber and choked up the en-
Lances were either Christian Science
ealers themselves or were prepared to
Istify to miraculous cures effected by
bem. 1t was remarked by all observers
at they were the handsomest, best
Fessed and healthiest looking lot Of
omen that have been seen in Albany
n many day.
Speeches in opposition to the bill and
ktolling the virtues of Christian
Renee were made by Judge p. 9. Tall
ann of Brooklyn, Henry L. Call of
ew York, DR.. G. ID. Cochran, Mark
L. Hubbell and Henry W. Bolts of
uffalo and Miss Laura Lathrop. Ex-
bnator Mcmillan of Buffalo sent let
saving that his wife had been an in
Hid for 20 years and was cured by
bristian Science and was now able to
bn up and down stairs much faster
IAN he could. Judge Hatch of Brook
n sent similar testimony. One Of the
eakers requested that all those pres
L who had been cured or benefited by
bristian Science should rise or hold up
Ieir hands. Nearly every woman in
e room got up. Some of them climbed
the senator's chairs and waved their
Sndkerchiefs.
This demonstration over, Senator
pppeshall took the floor and made one
the peculiarly amiable and graceful
eeches for which he is famed. He said
lat he was not crusader against
bristian Science. Science of all kinds
d always appealed to him, and he
; iii rememb ered the days when he had
btened to the teachings of Christianity
his mothers knee. He considered
lat the committee was under great obli-
tions to him for bringing together in
e senate chamber SO fine looking
/ of women. Barring his wife, he
id, they were the best looking repre-
| htatives of the sex that he had ever
en. He wound up by saying that he
bd intended that his bill should apply
ply to those persons who praoticed
hat they called massage. 1t would be
tirely agreeable to him to have the
II SO amended as to exempt specifical-
from its provisions the practitioners
Christian Science healing. Turning
DR.. Brush, the chairman of the COM
ittee, he inquired whether such an
bendment would meet with the COM
ittee's approval.
The great crowd of women leaned for
brd in their seats and listened intently
DR.. Brush's reply. After comforting
tn the other members of the commit.
b DR.. Brush said that there was no
jection to the amendment. Then the
PIT up enthusiasm broke forth. Once
pre- the women stood up in the chairs,
bved their handkerchiefs and cheered
ID cheered. Their cheers could be
|ard all over the floor of the capitol
ilding ON which the senate chamber
located. Then q few of the women
arrest to Senator Coggeshall rushed up
him, beaming with gratitude, and
ook his hand. This was the signal for
general movement, ana in a twinkling
lnator Coggeshall was the center OF
animated garden of much beflowered
Us. He was pushed and hauled hither
ID thither, and all of the women tried
shake hands with him at once. II
IS nearly an hour before the demon
ration was over and Senator Cogge-
all was permitted to escape. Then the
pmen stood around in little knots and
hised his courtesy and kindness. One
them said to four or five enthusiastic
lends: ~
Senator Coggeshall will never know
w much we think of him until we
We made him the next candidate fol
vernon Of New York. New York
IN.