Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-01-18
.,orsE WANTS A BILL TO BREAK
Up THE BUSINESS.
vnUpHY STANDS FOR HIS MEASURE.
No IL Unwilling TO Accept the Conn
.,tsfcc's Substitute, and So Is the
Uody.-Employcrs' Liability Blu
piscusScd.

.rr1fifcc's substitute for Mr.. Murphy's
..,f.h.tory measure. the House. by vote
.rto %. adopted the following. offered
~, Nr. James Lewis Anderson. OF this
Guy.
resolved. That House bill No. As be re-
,-l 90 the Committee on Courts Of
l.sf.c. with instructions to prepare a bill
.r.t viii most ofectually break up the
t...ress known as trading stamps and
t..fne check business. and report the
same to the House.
rr, knowledge Of the fact that the
,rrahy bin and the substitute proposed
l- Cd. committee would come up for con-
.....tIon drew an unusually large crowd
. tre ham Of the House. The discus
.. was brief but earnest. and the vote
Id r.eommittal most decisive
r.. employers liability bill also came
.. f.r discussion I'm the House. but only
about go minutes were consumed in its
.r-Gerauon. as il was then nearly
o'clock This measure will cause q most
....r.suue fight. and only the first guns
ro. lrcd yesterday.
.le feature of the day in the Senate
SSH. the discussion Of the bill to allow
certain physicians in communities where
t5.re are no drugstores 10 compound pre-
s.r.rtous. incidentally. the lawyers of
Ibis day and generation were compared
81. thuse of the days of Webster. The bin
,s ordered to it's cngrossment.
The Day in the senate.
s.v. Dr. Nandersnco made the opening
,..s.r in the Senate The number of
tors present was much larger than
usual. there being only one or two alb
s.ut.es.
Iho Clerk read the following telegram
,. The Lieutenant Governor and Speaker
% the House.
Newport News. Va, January 18th.
Resolved That we. n convention of
ID. TideWatCr Sugar-Baet Association Of
lrcnla. assembled in the city of New
r0rt News IN the interest of the sugar
beef industry, endorse the Flood bill, and
tn.t this resolution be telegraphed TO the
president OF the Senate and 10 the Speak
o. oi the House.
'P. II. WRIGHT. Chairman.
.B j.. Laumer, Secretary"
DEBATE OVER DRUGGISTS.
The only debate of the day in the SEN
.ts was over the bill granting to DR.. r.
E Jones. of Brunswick county, and
Others the right TO dispense drugs, which
came up on its second reading, which
called forth a strong protest from Mr..
E.ezeu He said the Legislature had
ras-ol law requiring pharmacists 10
stand AN examination before the state
Board of Pharmacy, made necessary IN
order 10 protect the lives Of the people
o the State against druggists unfit to
Practice their profession.
DR. LeCatO supported the views Of Mr..
kaezeu. He said that twenty-five years
.-0 when a young man matriculated at
medical college, he had already studied
tNu years in a physicians office, ana was
rr.lcicnt I'm pharmacy. Now. however.
ly man who chose could enter medi-
Cd. college, though he never looked inside
medical book. He did not believe there
would graduate at the present session
man who could make a decent pill. Phar
macy was no longer in the regular medi-
cad course, so 1t did not follow that
Doctor was now familiar with the COM
pounding Of drugs.
no DRUGSTORE NEARBY.
Mr Turnbun spoke for the bill. so far
u.s. Dr. Jones was concerned, saying that |
tie latter had practiced medicine for /
three years. and that the community in /
which he proposed to dispense drugs had /
r0 drugstore nearer than twenty-five or |
thirty miles.
SIR. Kane supported the bill, and was |
- lowed by Mr. MunfOrd. who opposed /
81. The latter said the lawyers OF the |
State had fought for ten years to secure |
tha passage of a bill designed TO raise the |
standard of the legal profession in the /
State. and 10 would be very inconsistent |
l.r the lawyers Of the Senate TO vote 10
admit these doctors 20 practice pharmacy
without having complied with the reSu-
latious Of the Pharmaceutical Board.
Mr Wickham said that the opponents
.f The bin were logically right. but what
these country districts wanted was
f1ysic and not logic.
"lt seems 10 be a physiological ques-
-iCn." said Dr. LeCatO. Oaughter)
4 LAWYERS TRUST.
Str Wickham. continuing, said that he
did not so highly approve Of the State
Iar Association as did many Of the law
l.rs OF the State; he thought It's effect
Was TO create a lawyers trust. 1t had
.ot had the effect of making great law
rers. The profession was not in danger
from Ignorant lawyers so much as from
tho shrewd. INSCRIPTIONS men who got
into the profession. He was glad he was
.o- now required 10 stand the examina
t.nn necessary to admission 10 the bar.
Chat he was the father of the Senate"
~. hoped the Senate would pass the bill
under consideration.
llr. Foster suggested certain amend
mnts 20 the bill, Of which he disap-
proved. and Mr. Lowry moved 20 recon-
mic 30.
GREAT LAWYERS NOT ALL DEAD.
Mr Mushbach said he was opposed to
ae views OF Mr. Wickham, that the great
Wyers were all dead. The lawyers Of
he present were wrestling with and de-
siding questions more intricate than any
solved by Webster and other great law
ers Of the past
How about the questions relating TO
DE Constitution, answered by Justice
Narshallg asked by Mr.. Wickham.
They were not nearly so intricate as
many with which our lawyers have had
0 contend since. Nothing lies so much
is an cpitaph. il is a good practice 10
y only nice things Of the dead; If the
ruth were oftener placed on tOmbstOnes,
bur cemeteries would contain some sin
Icrs instead of all saints, as at present.
The lawyers Of other days were great
men. but probably hardly 50 great as
Rc think"
Nr Mushbach spoke I'm favor Of Mr..
owry's motion TO recOmmit the bill.
The motion 10 recOmmit was lost, and |
dr Foster moved 10 strike out the name
d Dr. William Archer Head, Of Scott
0unty who had practiced his profession
rly about two years. This was lost,
nd the bin was ordered TO its engross-
ncnt.
THE INSURANCE. BILL