The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-24
.OSTEOPAIH Bill UP.
Representative Stevenson Seeks to
Have Board Of Osteopathic
Examiners Appointed.
Mr.. Helliwel Introduces Bill Call
ing for Appropriations for the
Soldiers Home.

A bill was introduced in the house this
by Representative Stevenson
which, If 1t becomes a law, will sur
round the practice Of osteopathy with
the same safeguards now thrown about
the two older schools of medicine. The bill
provides for state board of five oste-
opathic examiners, to be appointed by
the governor. each member to be grad
uate of a legally chartered school or
osteopathy and resident, practicing os-
teopathist in good standing. No member,
however, to be interested financially or
as member of the faculty, in any oste-
opathic school Appointment is to be for
five years. The board is to issue IL
censeS and may hold examinations to de-
termine theh eligibility of applicants. 1t
may also revoke licenses for unprofes-
sional conduct. The bill declares the
practice of osteopathy without license
to be misdemeanor, punishable by
fine of from $50 to 500 or Imprisonment
both. The osteopathy license does not
authorize practitioners to prescribe drugs
for internal use, nor to perform major
surgical operations.
@- Soldiers Home BIZ.
Mr. Helliwell introduced a bill to ap-
propriate s2S,1S6 for various purposes at
the Soldiers home 1t is Identical with
a similar bill offered in the senate to-day
Mr.. Clague of Redwood sent upa Dill
to authorize the payment of necessary
travelling and incidental expenses Incurred
by county attorneys out of the county
funds and also to obligate the county to
pay for all supplies used in the offices Of
county attorneys. DE&L tr
49,. Put on Special Orders 81 -
When general orders were reached MI
Nolan of Hennepin asked that his bill,
permitting inmates of the Soldiers home
to retain their pension money, be made
a special order for next Tuesday at 2 p m.
and the house assented.
Demtng's Cemetery Bill
Messrs Gillette and Deming clashed
when the latter's bill, to grant to cene-
terry corporations the right of eminent do
main. came up in committee of the whole.
Mr.. Gillette offered an amendment requir-
ing that 10 per cent of the sale price Of
lots within cemeteries be segregated and
kept perpetually as a maintenance fund.
He did not like the idea of permitting
such corporations to condemn property.
but declared he would not oppose the
measure, if his amendment was adopted.
After an extended debate, wholly confined
to members of the Hennepin delega ton,
the amendment was adopted. Mr.. Smith
then sent up another amendment, to make
the payment into the maintenance fund
20 instead of 10 per cent. The Smith
amendment never cached a vote.
Nyqust Scents a Woodchuck s
Mr.. Nyquist announced that he had re-
ceived a letter from Minneapolis asking
him to kill the bill: II answered." said
the member from Blue Earth, that the
Hennepin delegation would kill it them
selves if they had time. There is wood
chuck In this bill and I think we ought to
sit down on it. This sally was greeted
with laughter. Mr.. Nyquist then moved
that when the, committee arise the bill
be recommended for indefinite postpone
ment, which was carried without dissent.