The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-25
RECOGNIZE OSTEOPATHY
FIGHT AGAINST VACCINE
DR.. Bracken Passes Lie and
DR.. Budd Uses Swear Word
in Warm Anti Vaccination
Discussion-Horton Wins
First Round for Ants in
Senate.

| The exchange of personalities, the
passing of the lie and a roast for the
st. Paul health commissioner at the
hands Of Senator Horton were Incl
dents of the discussion on compulsory
vaccination in the house and senate
| yesterday.
In the senate, with Senators Horton
| and Thompson as their champions and
| spokesmen, the Observation-Disclosures
rather had the better of the encounter
| on points, but before the house com
mittee on public health, dairy and
food,wh President Griggs and Laura
G. Little led the fight against that
| portion Of Fosseen's proposed new
health code providing for compulsory
vaccination, they drew the short end
of the encounter.
The lie was given Mr.. Griggs by DR..
Bracken, of the state board of health;
DR.. Budd, Of the committee, roasted
| Griggs, and DR.. Levison, whom the
| ti-vaccinationists consider the
worlds greatest authority, and in the
end the objectional section will go to
the house to be fought in committee Of
| the whole.
Bitterness in Evidence.
The meeting of the house commit
tee after adjournment yesterday after
noon was chiefly characterized by the
| bitterness displayed. The remarks
made by President Griggs, of the anti
| Vaccination society, were hotly re-
sented by Drs. Bracken and Budd and
lurid language resulted. The commit
tee last night held an executive meet
ing at the Merchants hotel and prac-
| tically decided that the disputed sec
| ton was of too much importance to
| be finally passed upon in the commit
tee and it will go to the house un-
| changed.
President Griggs got the lie from
| DR.. Bracken early in the deliberations
and thereafter, the head of the health
department declined in any way to no.
tice the Observation-Disclosures. Mr.Griggs
| told the committee that his child had
been twice vaccinated and subsequent
| ly had smallpox. The manner in which
Mr.. Griggs spoke of the vaccination of
| his child implied that it was success
| full or worked.
Bracken Passes the "Lie."
DR.. Bracken was at once on his feet.
He told the committee that he had ex-
| amined the Griggs child, there were no
| marks indicative of vaccination and
that in telling the committee the child
had been successfully vaccinated, Mr..
Griggs lied. Griggs stirred DR.. Budd,
of Two Harbors, to the swearing point
by stating that vaccination is a crime
and that any person injecting the vac
cine poison into the veins of a child
should be prosecuted. Budd prefaced
his remarks with a fiery:
"You don't know a damned thing
about the subject you are attempting
to discuss" and wound up with the
intimation that DR.. Levison is not a
graduate Of any recognized school OF
medicine and has no right to expect to
discuss scientific questions before sci
entific men. A minority of the COM
mittee is with the Observation-Disclosures
and rather than face minority report
which might affect the whole bill, 1t
was decided at last nights executive
session to allow the section to go to the
house unchanged and without recon-
mendation.
Ants Win in the Senate.
The anti-vaccinationists had their
inning yesterday morning in the SEN
ate, when Senator Hardys anti-vacci-
nation bill, recommended for indefinite
postponement by the senate commit
tee on public health, was put on gen.
eral orders and ordered printed.
When the Hardy bill came out OF
committee yesterday morning, Senator
Thompson objected to the adverse rec
ommendatIon, and moved that the
committees report be rejected and
that the bill be placed on general or
ders. The senator from Fillmore de-
4 -
ment that compulsory vaccination is
wrong, and for this reason he thought
that the bill should be thoroughly dis
| cussed before the senate acted.
DR.. Cole, senator from Otter Tail,
declared for compulsory vaccination,
but announced himself willing to have
the question debated, and agreed with
| Senator Thompson's motion to place
the bill on general orders.
Senator Horton, of Ramsey, showed
! himself a real anti-vaccinationist by
declaring that he doubted the right OF
doctors to assault citizens by shoot.
Ing the vaccine dope into them.
Vaccination an Assault.
There is no state but Minnesota
which has compulsory vaccination
legislation without qualification" de-
clared the Ramsey senator, "and I
doubt myself the right for a citizen to
be subject to assault by doctors who
insist upon shooting the dope into
him.
Senator Horton went on to point out
that there is no protection to be found
in the laws of the state for the helpless
children against these men of medi-
cine who are rampant with the vac
cine.
Many respectable citizens are op-
| posed to compulsory vaccination"
continued the senator, "and they
should not be laughed out of the
chance to express themselves. We cam
not rightfully so violate the constitu
tional rights of the Individual. There
is universal sentiment that the cid-
zen should be protected against the
burly doctor who would shoot into
him the harpoon Of vaccination.
Touches Up Ohaee.
"The doctors do not answer our
| questions .candidly, and give their Sci
entific reasons for this thing. We
ought to know. Here we see the health
commissioner Of St. Paul declare In
our public press that / will vaccinate
every school child every employe,
everybody else in this city when, as
a matter of fact, he has not the au-
thority to do so, and has just found
out that he has not"
Senator Cole smiled at the argu-
ments advanced by Senator Horton,
saying: 1.-THE senator proves that q
lawyer discusses medicine with AN
much sense and wit as a doctor gen.
orally discusses law" He declared
that the doctors were willing that all
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