Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-11
OSTEOPATHS AND
OLD SCHOOL FIGHT
OVER RAMSAY BILL
Governor Fort Scores Lakewood
Physician at Hearing on
Measure.
LspeeIal TO the Newark stnr.l


TRENTON, April 11.-Old school
physicians INK osteopaths rubbed ell
bows with one another in the executive
chambers this morning while they ar
gued vigorously to convince Governor
Fort that he should or should not sign
the bill seeking to regulate the prac-
tise of osteopathy by adding n MEM
Der of that profession to the State
Board of Medical Examiners.
DR.. Halsey, of Newark, said that
the medical men were surprised to
find the ~osteopaths opposing the enact
ment of the bill passed by the Legisla-
ture. He said the bill had been
amended, as the medical men under
stood, to satisfy the osteopaths. After
the introduction of the bill by DR.. Ram
say, a member of the Assembly from
Middlesex county, DIR. Halsey said q
conference was held between the con-
tending interests and amendments
were decided upon that were understood
to represent the. o~steopathic views.
These changes, he said, were suggested
by Assemblyman Pierce, who was fav-
-orable to the ~osteopaths.
DR.. ID. W. Cranberry, of Orange,
president of the New Jersey osteo-
pathic Society. said that DR.. Halsey's
statement was only partially true. He
explained that he had attended the
conference spoken OF by DIR. Halsey,
and had said that so far as the Ram
say bill was concerned the Pierce
amendments seemed to be the best that
could be gotten under it. This. how
ever, was only a personal opinion of
his, and later the Osteopathic Society
Ino1fno1 +o rtor5 f~, +Io ~ ,a,J,,aot
which were then put on the bill, and
the measure pushed through the Legis-
lature against he opposition of the
osteopaths.
Osteopath Scores Board.
DR.. r. Fl. Williams, of Rochester, the
osteopathic member of the New York
State Board of Medical Examiners, told
the Governor that a composite board
was a partial failure wherever it had
been tried, Examinations of osteo-
paths under the Ramsay bill, he as
serted, would not result in protecting
the public against inefficient practi-
TONERS. AS a matter of fact, he in
sisted that through the Ramsay bill
the medical men were aiming to sup
press osteopathy n wipe 1t out of
New Jersey as a healing art. The bill
authorized examinations, but the board,
with a preponderance of old school
members on it, could refuse to license
osteopaths.
DIR. William j, Schaufler, of Lake
wood, aroused the ire of Governor Fort
when he made a two-minute talk in
which he set forth an instance to prove
the contention that the osteopaths We're
ignorant and made many mistakes.
"Oh, we are all liable to make mis-
takes said the Governor as his face
paled' with anger. "Sucn talk as that
does not nave any effect on me. Why,
DIR. Schaufner has told me himself that
lie has had cases tina he himself has
Sent to osteopaths. In fact, his own
wife has been treated by osteopaths.
Yes, DR.. Schauffler has ever advised me
personally to be treated by an osteo-
path. He told me to see an ~osteopath
last year when 1 had a broken rib"
Veto Is Expected.
Although the Governor did not say
what disposition he would make of
the Ramsay bill, it is believed hat he
will veto it.
AT the close of the hearing a refer
ence was made to q remark made by
Governor Fort some time ago which
tended to show that the Governor was
opposed to the osteopaths. The Gov
ernor denied that he had ever made
any such remark as opposing the
osteopaths, and said that he thought
he knew who was responsible for mis-
quoting him. He added: IT think the
man is in the ROOM" And finally 1t
developed that the remarks had been
made by DR.. Luther M. Halsey, a MEM
Der of, the board of managers of the
New Jersey Hospital for the Insane at
Trenton. When this was made known
Governor Fort said: Il thought it was
the man at the other end Of the table"