The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-04-26

power of ten miles is to be achieved.
Mr. Carpenter has enlisted Senators
Vest and Cockrell in this plan and
had some promise of going on to
i Washington at government expense to
exploit it, In all he has taken out
| eighty-four patents for inventions.
Voting Saloons Out of Wards.
The ward option saloon bill got out
i of committee with a favorable report
and Mr. Dodge of Monroe is happy.
There are quite a number Of residence
wards in cities which would vote out
their saloons under such law. The
Fifth university ward Of Madison is
much interested. In the three no-li-
cense campaigns within a dozen years
it has voted against saloons. There
are five of them in this ward.
1t is likely if the bill is passed the
Sixteenth ward residents of Milwau-
kee will ask for license" or mo Ii
cense' election under it's provisions.
The bill will be vigorously opposed
Of course.
An O>teopath on State Board.
DR.. McComb is the only physician
in the assembly, a Democrat, from
Brillion, Calumet county. He is a
pleasant-spoken gentleman. and has
ably engineered the medical board
bill which gives the seven members
larger powers, but chiefly cOnSplcu-
Gus by the admission of an eighth
member-an osteOpath. 1t has been
a busy fight that results in this COM
promise and when one reflects that
there are but forty practitioners OF
the new school in the state the new
corners must be credited with energy.
The oSteopaths first wanted a special
board of examiners, but in this were
defeated, the feeling being that If al
lGpaths, homeopathic and eclectics could
get together, OsteOpaths should be con-
tent to join the procession. The out
come is that the board shall grant IL
cense to practice OsteOpathy to all ap-
Dlicants Of good moral character who
pass the regular examination of such
boards in q long list of departments
of medicine, but excluding the drug
end of it-osteOpaths claiming not to
use drugs. The applicant must have
attended a medical school at least four
terms of five months, which means
/ that few months Of reading Dr.
Stiles books will not be sufficient
All those now practicing, however,
may get license without eXamina-
! tion Osteopaths, when licensed shall
j have the same rights and privileges
and be subject to the same statutes
and regulations as other physicians
but shall not have the right to give
or prescribe drugs or perform surgi-
cal operations.
Probably Me ms Friction.
Some of the regulars think too
iS of
, that osteopaths use drugs; that when
j in charge of a patient it is the most
natural thing to resort first to famil-
! Jar remedies and then to other drugs.
! For this reason they object to open
ing the door; but the members of the
state board were more cOnciliatory
than their brothers outside-perhaps
I they had to be with so many law
makers favorably inclined to the new
school. One is tempted to share this
catholic view of the thing-to make
it easy to practice medicine-until he
hears the awful stories told Of quacks
| in the small towns. Not long ago a
story was told of a quack who bought
from a butcher shop a lot of rejected
trimmings of a beef ''critter" which
were displayed as the fruit of a petty
operation--to amaze the ignorant pa
tient-and made him an easy mark
for big fee.
! Two Infuenti II Regents.
Ex-Governor Peck is always available
for work before the legislature for
university needs, being a regent, and
he spoke to crowded assembly cham
Der the other night. Colonel Villas
followed in an hours speech. He
oil To- II
weaving in Latin and poetry along
with a mass of data as to what the
university has done, arranged with
a lawyers skill. The senator is in the
prime of his powers.
The chief thing the university wants
this year is a $4,000 central build
ing; as it is put ON the grounds of a
! need of the farmers, it will probably
be granted. There are twentyseven
listed as farmers of the 100 assem-
blymen, and four in the senate; but
there are a score of livestock men,
dairymen, agricultural implement
agents, ETC., whose line runs close to
the soil.
"Woodchucks" in Legislation.
There are hopes of still breaking in
on the anti-pass law, though the as
SoUlDlN W cAClupl
The sheriffs were all ready to follow
in their steps. The newspaper which
thought the notary effort was an at
tempt to open the way for legislators
(who would take out notary's COM
missions) could hardly have reasoned
well, for as legislators the law would
have shut them out. This paper re-
ferred to thought it discovered in the
bill what is known as 'woodchuck"
or ''nigger'-the idea being bill
with a submerged purpose. 1t is diff
cult to get such bill through and the
history of legislation does not witness
many such.
Railroad Taxation.
. The chances of vigorous railroad
taxation are not good this year. This
debate opens Tuesday evening in the
assembly, and while the task of con-
fronting the findings of the tax COM
mission is not congenial there will be
no dearth of speakers on both sides.
This session is too far spent to war
rant hopes of much being done along
this line There are some good men