Arizona republican., 1899-02-01
ARIZONA DOCTORS
Eiqth Annual Meeting Of inc
 Medical Association.
The SeIe Cfion of Officers for Next Year Attended by an Incident Showing Thai inc Society is Not Likely 10 Die of hamilton.

The eighth annual meeting of the Arizona Medical association began yes terday in Elks hall. There was 1attering attendance, seven counties of the territory being present The physicians who were seated when the president, Dr. w V. Whitmore of Tue son, called the meeting to order were: 5. B. Claypool of Globe, w. B. Purcell of Tucson, P. G. Cotter of Yuma, A. c. Wright of Pinal, T. B. Davis of Prescott, F. H. Wells of Nogales, J. B. Drane Of Mesa, Charles H. Jones of Tempe, L. D. Damer1n, R. H. Wilson, J. Miller, Winfred Wylie, Ancil E. Martin, o. E. Plath, N. Mcintyre and William Duffield of Phoenix
 The invocation was pronounced by the Rev. M. Weems, in the absence of Dr. Lewis Halsey. The address of welcome was delivered by Dr. Miller, and response was made by Dr. Jones, Dr. C1aypOol and Dr. COtter
 An error had been made in the prep aration of the programme, by which the reports of the nominating commit tee, the judicial council and the regis tration of new members had been car ried over to the second day. These matters have always been disposed of on the first day and it was resolved to follow the established precedent An adjournment was therefore taken until 3 o'clock to allow the judicial council to prepare it's report, the most inn portant feature of the routine business, since it fixes the place of the next meeting and practically names the of fcerS for the ensuing year. The mem bers of this committee are P. G. Cot ter, c. H. Jones, w. B. Purcell, A. c. Wright, T. B. Davis and s. P. Claypool The committee did not report until nearly 1 o'clock. The report named Prescott as the location of the next meeting, the time to be fixed later The report also recommended the fol- lowing official board for the next year: President, Winfred Wylie; first vice. president, T. B. Davis; second vice president, s. P Claypool; third vice president, N. H. Matas of Tucson; sec rotary, o. E. Plath, reelected; treas urer, w. B. Purcell; essayist, F. H. Welles.
 Here a storm broke loose There was minority report amending the majority report to the extent of choos- ing different set of officers, of whom DA' 1Cc1f 10 O1 1NSOOII NcO uduSu dS president. It was stated on behalf of the minority report that heretofore Phoenix or Maricopa county had man. aged to secure the offices and it was now desired to distribute them among the other counties in the interest of fairness. This statement was in part retuted that the retiring president was Tucson man, but debate was Sprung 2 in which a latent acrimOny was de- VelOped. A vote was taken on the adoption of the amendment. It re- suited in tie, several of the members declining to vote. The president availed himself of the parliamentary privilege of putting the question again rather than cast the deciding ballot This time the minority report was de- -1eated, put it's supporters -.--Were not cast down. They demanded an ad- journment until today, hoping to gather strength against the majority report. pr. COtter deplOred the polit- lcaI methods which had been employed Tn the committee. All attempts at delay were frustrated and the opponents of the report were driven to vCte The report was adopted and motion was made to adjourn. A rising vote was called for and every member found his feet except one, who, sitting in his chair, observed to the chair that he was in fog as to the status of af- fairs. He rose then to inquire if by t-e adoption of this report an election had been held. The chair replied that the gentlemen recommended y the council were undoubtedly elected. The propriety of member voting for himself was questioned The stric- ture was applied to Dr. Wylie, who was among the supporters Of the re port. Dr. Wylie's retort was calm and courteous. President Whitmore di- rected the secretary to count the vote on adjournment All the members had risen to vote except the one, who had risen to inter pellate the chair.
 Said Secretary PIath: q am about to count the gentlemen standing as voting for an adjourn ment. Do you wish to be counted ?'' The doctor moved toward the door, the vote was counted and the association stood adjourned until this morning. This incident is described at greater length only to show that interest in the Arizona Medical association is health and action, and that the as sociation is not a perfunctory body as so many medical associations are.
 Several interesting papers set for reading on the opening day were side tracked, but will be presented tOdav