The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-01
OF JOintists, Amateurs and Tom
Dick and Harry.
REAL PHARMACISTS
Who Have Paid For Their Edu-
cation
TO Be Crowded Out by a sESpec-
ial Act"
Whereby Mem ers Try to Help
a Lot of FaVOriteS.

The house resolved itself into a phar-
macist factory late yesterday afternoon.
Every member who wanted to have
pharmacist made simply had to send
his name to the reading clerk The for
mula was: Put your man in the hopper
and have him ground out pharmacist.
The trouble was that too many were
stuffed in at time and the pharmacist
machine became choked.
1t came up when the house went into
committee of the whole to consider To-
cal bills. The first one considered was
a bill introduced by Mr.. Hogue of john
son, authorizing W. H. Wilkie of
Olathe, to avail himself of the provis-
ions of section 2 of chapter ia, session
laws of 1857 or in other words, that
he be made a registered pharmacist
without being compelled to take an ex-
animation before the state board of
pharmacy. upon filing the proper affida-
Wits Mr.. RavenScraft of Clark start
ed the machine by moving as an
amendment that the name of a physi-
clan in his county, who wanted to be-
came a pharmacist, be also Inserted in
the bill.
Mr.. Geissler, of Logan, who was in
the chair, suggested that If any other
members had like bills pending before
the house, or intended to introduce any,
it would expedite matters if the names
were all included in one bill.
This suggestion caused rush For a
few minutes all the pages on the floor
were kept busy carrying names up to
the reading clerk to be included in the
bill. For a while it looked as though %
or so pharmacists would be ground out
in short order
Jaquins of Cowley recognized the in
congruity of the situation and he check
ed the machine by saying:
Il suggest that if any one knows o.
any other jointist who would like to
get in on this deal. his name ought to
be included"
But it was Grosser of Dickinson who
brought the machine to a full stop.
1T strikes me- he said, that this bill
has got into such a condition that II IS
farcical. y lot of names seem to have
been introduced here whom no one pre-
tends are pharmacists"
Wright of Lyon said: Il believe there
are several joint keepers in Emporia
who would like to get in on this deal
do not know their names, and would
like to have this bill postponed until I
can write down there and get them, so
that they can go in with the rest
A motion was made to strike out the
enactfng clause, but Mr.. Hogue, the
author of the bill, said he had intro
duced the original bill in good faith. as
his man was certainly entitled to be-
come a pharmacist, and he did not like
to see his bill killed simply because 9TH
er people had tackled a lot of amend
mentS to it.
Marks of Jefferson said: Some mem
bers on the floor of this house seem to
have an idea that this is an enabling
act for jointists, but this is not the case.
This measure provides that men who
take advantage of it must comply with
certain requirements
Wise of Reno denounced all legisla-
ton of that character as vicious ''All
men should have a chance" he said,
and if they can't come up to the re-
quirements they should not be made
Pharmacists
It was decided to consider each man
rel " Of 7 a. ven flY-f n
moved that the bill be sent back to the
committee on hygiene and health with
all the names submitted, to be inyesti-
gated by the committee.
1t is said that cases have been known
where men who have wanted to run
drug store joints without hiring a phar-
macfst, have worked their representa-
tives to get special bills through the