Arizona republican., 1912-04-25
Is Finally Passed By the House, Goes to Senate, But Is Halted There When President Cunniff Finds An Error.
MEDICAL BILL
 HAS AN INNING
This Measure Has Rather Stormy Experience Goes to Committee With Chris tian Science Amendments Attached.

Attached.
 The recall bin made one more ef- fort to pass yesterday but bumped against a flying tackle in the person o1 the president of the senate. How ever. the bill made some progress. It got through the house about noon, and was sent to the senate about 2 o'clock. It reached that body just as if was considering the medical bill in committee of the whole. The com mittee arose at once to attend to the stranger which had been so long ab- sent it had almost been forgotten. In fact the house had announced pre- viOusly that something else had been passed and this message came merely To correct the error, for some mis- chance has attended every effort re- garding the bill since its introduction. When the senate found it was actual ly confronted by the recall bill it suspended the rules and placed it on final reading. But the clerk had pro eIessed only q dozen lines when he came to a misplaced word and re- ferred it to the president. who, an HounCed that unless there is Objec ton the bill will be referred to the expressing committees of both houses jointly. for comparison" There was no objection and it was so ordered
 Also, moreover and yet there were some dOings with reference to the medicine bill in the senate about mid afternoon. Everything went smoothly 1Or a time. X few amendments were put in here and a-there, and sOnfe of them stuck for a while but one by one they were all pulled off except two unimpOrtant ones and the bill, which is a long one, was read clear through to the next to the last sec tiOn. when Senator Davis offered the Christian Science" amendment The amendment reads:
 Nothing in this act shall be con- strued to prohibit the practice of the religious tenents of any church in the ministrations Of the sick or suffering by mental or spiritual means without the use of any drugs or material rem cdy provided sanitary and quarantine laws are complied with"
 The amendment does not mention Christian science specifically but it's object is well understood. The Op- litlitilAS VI ltiC d4lltIluliItIllS, litluIliS if was bound to carry, tried to inject the word adults after the word suffering" but the amendment to the amendment failed to carry.
 Finally a new idea developed. It was suggested that the regular physicians should be curbed in re- spect to their charges. and a motion was made to refer the bill to the appropriation committee that a scale of fees might be devised. Some thought this was subterfuge to kill the bill; but Senator C. E. Wood said the purpose was neither to bury the bill alive nor to establish a maximum Of doctors bills. He said the sole object was to have a code price for physicians services. It was not de- signed to interfere with any price a physician might make or demand for a special case, by previous under standing. The motion was adopted in committee of the whole. but when the senate resumed it's regular session it refused to accept the report and rec ommendatiOn of the committee of the whole in that particular, and directed that the bill take it's regular order It is still in jeopardy therefore and both sides will be anxious until the next move.
 The house spent the greater part of the day in consideration of the school law, which has not yet been finished. It decided to keep on talk ing new bills until May and nine of them were thrust upon it yes terday.
 The senate postponed the measures fixing a license tax on refrigerator and sleeping cars and taxing express telephone and telegraph companies five per cent of their gross revenues and passed several other bills, among them the one affecting foreign cor poratiOns by making them subject t. the sO-called Kentucky law Another bill passed was the one prohibiting the use of steam blinding locomotives
 THE SENATE
 Immediately on converting two tele grams were laid before the senat protesting against the passage o the bill repeating the prohibition segregation law. one being from tn mayor and council of Winslow, an' the other being a petition signed b. 100 citizens of that town.
 Senate bill 142 for the repeal O the poll tax law, was referred t the finance committee.
 Public health committee reporte senate bill 112, pure food law, rec ommending it's passage.
 The finance committee reporte,
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