The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-18
OFFERS THREE BIG
BILLS IN SENATE
Comprehensive Measure to
Regulate Practice of
Medicine.

Three important measures were intro
duced in the senate yesterday afternoon
by Senator Benner y. Smith of Salt
Lake. The first known as Senate Bill
No 3, repealS Title % of the 1898 statutes
regulating the practice of medicine and
substitutes more comprehensive law, as
advocated by the State Medical associ-
alton at its meeting Wednesday. Senate
Bill No. provides that 'lifers' at the
penitentiary shall suffer death if con-
Victed of aSsaulting any person with a
deadly weapon, and Senate Bill No. 5
creates statute revision commission and
appropriates 5000 TO cover the expenses
of codifying the laws of the state.
The senate was called to order prompt
~ at O'Clock by Senator George n
Lawrence. IN the absence of President
Love The report of the commission
which investigated the advsability of
uniting the University and the Agricul-
ate by Secretary of State Tingey, and
laid on the liable i'll the absence of Pres
ident Love.
The only discussion came up when the
communication of the Rocky Mountain
Bell Telephone company was read, Of
fering the senators free use of its lines
The offer was presented by Senator Park
and after being read he moved that it
be passed.
Senator Lawrence. who was in the
chair desiring 10 be heard on the mat
ter called Senator Benner Y. Smith TO
preside and. taking the floor. made a
vigorous speech against the acceptance Of
the offer
offer Is Accepted.
Perhaps" he said. I'VE will be called
upon TO pass upon legislation in which
the telephone company is interested. and
! DO not think that it is right that we
should accept this gratuity. The state
can well afford to pay for telephone
.,e-f., -
to me that we would be placing our
selves in a more dignified position if we
would refuse the offer.
Senator Park retorted by saying that
he did not think that the matter ought
10 he given undue prominence. 1T is a
mere trifle" he said, land / can see no
good reason why we should not accept
The question being called. the offer was
accepted by a vote of to 6, as fol-
Ayes-BuIlen. Canister. cleggs Gardner.
johnson. Miller, Park Rasband, Smith,
NaysEBrirkerhoff Hollingsworth. HUI
laniski. Lawrence. Smith. B. X, VIII
lams-6
The senate then adjourned until ?
O'Clock this afternoon.
Smiths Medicine Bill.
The bill introduced by Senator Benner
Y. Smith regulating the practice of med
less than a cod'fication and revision of
tho old law known as Title - in the 1873
statutes The old law is expressly re-
pea led.
by the governor Of q state board of med
ical examiners. consisting of seven MEM
bers. whose duty it shall be to issue Ii
censes to those who have proper Gre
dentials or who have passed the exam
fnations to be given by the board. Ply
sic'ans coming from other states with
proper certificates showing their qualifi-
cations will be allowed to practice in Utah
without an examination. and after a hear
ing the hoard will have the authority
to revoke q suspend the lceusc OF any
phys:cisn accused of unprofessonal con-
duet
courts can ISsue injunctions restraining
such persons from practicing and in this
manner back up the board.
Provides Death Penalty.
Senate Bill No. 4. also fathered by Sen
the point IT reads as follows:
Every convict undergoing life SEN
tence in the state prison OF this state.
who. with malice sforethought commits
with a deadly weapon or instrument. or
by any means or force likely TO produce
great bodily injury. shall, upon conviction
thereof. suffer death.
In explaining this Dill, Senator Smith
II was on the prison board for several
months and learned from my experience
there that such a measure is necessa rv
for any act he may commit short OF MUIR
der. for he is already suffering the
greatest penalty the law can impose
these fellows are reckless
are likely to go to any extremes to Sc