The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-02-08
SHARP DISCUSSION
Legislators Warm Up on the
Subject of Trusts.
Its Occasions Some Sharp Thrusts.--
Measures for a Sanitarinm for
COnsumptives is Presented.

some business was transacted. A VlSl-
tor to the house might easily have re,
ceived the impression that ne was lis
tening to a debate upon the Republi,
can and Democratic national plat
forms. On general orders came up the
question of recommending the Roberts
memorial asking congress to provide
for constitutional amendment tC
authorize congressional treatment OF
the trust problem.
Mr.. Sageng, of the minority, APP,
proved the purpose of the memorial,
but refused to believe that it went fa1
enough, aud, therefore, offered an
amendment requesting congress to
place upon the free list every protected
article manufactured and controlled
by trust, and, furthermore, to enact
"a more stringent and effective in
terstate commerce law so that trust
breeding discrimination in freight
rates upon our public railways may be
effectively prohibited. -
The amendment did not at all accord
with the views of the majority, and
Mr.. Roberts i'm mediately protested.
He said he had been anticipating
such an amendment, whereupon Mr..
Plowman undertook to obtain a deci.
sion on the point of order that the
committee of the whole was mo poll
tical convention. - The opportunity
for a reply was excellent and Mr..
!! Roberts made good use of it.
| In more serious vein Mr.. Robert:
asked his Democratic friends to de-
monstrate that neither the ice trust
nor the Standard Oil company has
been fostered by a tariff. Even Mr..
Bryan, he said, had declared that the
trusts could not be regulated by a
tariff. The supreme court of the
United States speaking through its
chief justice, a Democrat, had empha,
sized the necessity for the additions
power it was proposed to confer upon
congress by the suggested constitu,
tional amendment
After some further debate, which as
sumed sharp thrusts back and forth,
the amendment was defeated and the
original bill recommended. for passage.
Two bills relating to the practice Of
osteopathy have been introduced in
the senate and its is understood that
an active lobby will be lined up fol-
each bill when the time comes. There
are not two schools of osteopathy, but
there are without question two fac
tions, and the effort to determine
which one is regular" is expected tt
develop much excitement
| A bill was introduced few day!
ago by Senator Horton which had fol-
its object the creation of a board Of
osteopathic examiners to determine by
examination who is entitled to prac
| tice the system, the measure was pre-
pared by a number of twin city osteo
paths and was supposed to be satisfac
f., tory to the whole school.
But Frank Jungen, D. O., appeared
to be something of AN insurrecto. HI
has prepared a..bill of his own which
lodges any proposition to have {
board of examiners. His bill provides
that any person holding diploma
from college of osteopathy of good
repute may, on.the presentation OF
his diploma ito the secretary of state
and by payment of fee of So, secure
certificate to practice, osteopathy any
! where in Minnesota. The certificate
will not authorize the holder to pre-
scribe drugs or to perform major sur
gical operations. The system, method
/ or science of healing diseases known
as osteopathy is expressly declared not
f, to be the practice of medicine or sur
gerry as described in the statutes OF
the state, in order. that There shall b.
no fake osteopaths, anyone found
guilty of obtaining certificate under
false pretenses will be deemed guilty
of misdemeanor and may be fined
not more than 500 and may be de
prived of his certificate.
! Senator Snyder, who introduced the
bill, is not committed to either faction
and simply presented Mr.. Jungen''
measure at the latter's request.
To protect society against tubercu-
losis Senator Daugherty of Duluth has
presented a bill appropriating $3.50, OO(
for the establishment of a public san
E: itarium for consumptives. The insti
tuition is to be governed by board o.
five trustees, to be appointed by thu
governor. The. board will select s
superintendent, treasurer and an ac-
counting officer. The plan is to make
the sanitarium self-supporting, if pos
sible,- and patients able to pay theil
expenses will be obliged to do So
while INDECENT patients will be cared
for at the expense of the counties in
which they reside. The state may b.
called upon for help, but not to ex
coed $50, 900 year. Incurables will b.
barred from..the..home. 90
If the bill. goes through the SAM
tarium doubtless will be established al
Cass Lake, according to the plans of &
number of twin city physicians.
The Blair Mahood contest was de-
cided upon in favor of Mahood by 6
vote of 66 to Al. A curious feature Of
the vote was that the Republican vote
evenly divided, "A going to Blair an6