The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-03-01
Nurses Bill
And Dog Bill
Among Them

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the House yesterday BY General Boggs,
heralded the fact that the governor
had vetoed three bills passed by both
Houses of the Legislature. TWO Of
these bills We're dlsapproyed by Gov.
erncr Dawson because Of violations
that appeared in the bills, while the
other met with his displeasure be.
cause Il curtaiied his appointing DOW.
ers in one instance.
His disapproyaI OF House bin No.
III. an act to provide for the ap.
pointment Of State board OF exam.
liners and for the examination ana
registration Of nurses In the State
of West Virginia has aroused much
feeling among those VINO earnestly
advocated the passage of bill Of
this character at the expired SEES.
sion. 1t is said that another bill viii
be presented ut this extra session of
the Legislature for action on this sub.
ject The nurses are a unit in ask.
ing for legislation Of this sort and
felt that they were competent enough
to name a committee or twelve, as
provided in the bill, from which the
governor could select five members
to serve as the board of examiners
and the veto by Governor Dawson
of the bill, mas aroused them TO the
fullest extent.
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Governor Dawson IN presenting his
reasons to the legislature for his
disapproval of this bill dwells large.
up on the fact that the provision in
the bill, providing that the West
Virginia State Association OF Grad.
uate Nurses choose twelve of their
number from when he may select
five as the board of examiners. is
unprecedented and halls It as the
usurpation of prerogative which
the State Senate is not entitled to.
that Of the iniative.
His report on this bill says: ri
herewith return to you, with my dis.
approval. House bill No. III, entitled
an act to provide for the appoint.
and for the examination and regis.
tration Of nurses.
This act provides that the west
Virginia State Association of Grad.
3uate Nurses, which is purely vol.
untary association or persons who
may or may not be citizens OF this
State, shall nominate to the COVER.
nor, twelve of its members, and out
Of this twelve so named by this as
ISOLATION, the governor is compelled
to appoint FIVE members OF the State
board OF examiners, who are to aofd
Office for the periods named in this
act when At is necessary to appoint
a successor. the governor IS compefist
ed to appoint such asuccessor from a
list of five names to him by the said
association. Vacancies are to be
filed from names furnished by the
association.
Il think I should have little re.
spect for the high Office OF governor.
II l did not enter any protest against
this sort Of a bill. can. only pre.
sumo that this proposed act did not
have the attention OF the gentlemen
of the legislature"
Governor Dawson goes on to say
that the persons named by the as.
ISOLATION may be competent or in.
competent and that the governor has
no discretion. He could not ever
ask for a new list If no competent
person were found on the list sub.
mitted. His hands are tied com.
Pletely," he asserts, "and he is com.
PEELED to appoint a board. be respon,
sib1e for 1T, at least morally, which
he does not in fact appoint"
The governor refers to the asso-
ctatione as being only voluntary and
not under the law and does not per.
form any functions under the State
law. He. says the members. named
by the association from which he is
to choose the board may be citizens
of another State or may ne women.
In either case prohibited by the con.
stitution of the State as 1t makes
eligible for office only those citizens
of the State who are entitled to vote.
The chief executor complains that
the proposed act gives to the volun.
tary association of graduates much
greater authority ana prerogatye
than is given by the constitution to
the State Senate itself. "The Senate
he says. has not the power Of in
itiative and compels the appointing
power to choose absolutely from a
list ON names presented"
He also cites that the act pro.
yfdes for the collection of fees from
applicants for registration but no
where provides that any. report is to
be made of the. disposition of this
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