Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-05-13
DR.. RAMSAY
PRAISED IN
JERSEY CITY
Makes Address Before Hud-
son County Medical Society
--ResoIutiOns are Adopted.
GOVERNORS ACTION Is
SEVERELY CRITICISED

Jersey City, May 13:-Governor
Fort was criticized last night at the
annual banquet Of the Hudson Coun-
| ty Medical Society in the Jersey City
Club, for his veto of the medical bill
introduced by Assemblyman William
/ E. Ramsay, of Middlesex, to regulate
the medical profession and prevent
osteopaths who did not pass a medi-
cal examination from practicing as
physicians. He was scored first In
resolutions that were unanimously
adopted, and later by DR.. Ramsay.
the first speaker
The resolutions follow:
Resolved, That the medical pro-
fession of the county of Hudson, by
its combined society, representing a
body of seven hundred physicians,
does hereby unanimously. commend
the action of our state legislature in
its passage Of Assembly bill No. 1856,
regulating the practice of medicine
In this state; and be it further
Resolved, That Assemblyman
Ramsay, of Middlesex county, by the
introduction OF said bill and it's sup
port, as well as the legislators OF
Hudson county by their cooperation
have earned the gratitude and
thanks of this society; and be 1t fur
ther
Resolved, That the profession oi
this county are under deep obliga-
tions to Dr. Ramsay, chairman OF
the state legislative committee, for
his untiring exertions.
I'VE hereby assure him Of our
trust in his integrity and greatly
deplore the circumstances which
make these resolutions a necessity;
and be 1t further
Resolved, That his excellency, the
Governor of New Jersey, has by his
action in vetoing the said bill, not
only failed to keep his ante-election
promises, but displayed an unfortu-
nate and unjust discrimination
which will rebound to the discredit
of his high Office"
Dr. Arthur P. Hasking, president
Of the society, was POSTMASTER and
introduced DR.. Ramsay, who said he
had the distinction OF being the
youngest head of the Middlesex
County Medical Society organized In
/ 1875. He continued by alluding to
the shortcomings of some OF Tho
medical profession by not interest
Ing themselves more in politics. H,
referred to the public press anc
said:
"The public press, when properl,
used, is a public blessing, but wher
one of your lemon sheets will sell
It's pages to the sacrifice of human
beings. they ought to bow theil
heads in shame"
He said it was time the medica
profession of the state woke UP ant
put a stop to osteopaths, who are nj
more than rubbers in Turkish baths
or plain liverymen, and whC
won't take examinations to practic,
medicine.
| "If we DON'T" he said, they viii
make us all look foolish"
/ He referred to the medical bill
passing both houses and scored Gov
ernor Fort for vetoing It, He saiC
the governor was always against the
bill and all adherents to Fort in this
Legislature were opposed to its pass
age. He said when he asked the
governor to give the bill a hearing
becaues 1t had been passed by botl
houses, the governor said he didn
care "a cuss for the assembly or any
body else"
Dr. Ramsay explained that hi
reason for saying to the press afte,
the bill had been in the governor
hands over five days without actor
that it had become law, that he diC
SO because the governor in his inaug
ural address said he would let bill
become laws If they passed the leg
islature, and he had not acted upol
them after Ave days had elapsed.
He praised the Hudson assembly
men for standing by the medical pro
fession in the last session OF the leg
islature, with one exception, whel
they stood for bill permitting eye
to be tested and spectacles sold b,
men who ara not Dhysicians