Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-28
HOUSE TAckS SEVERAL RADICAL
AMENDMENTS TO SENATE
BILL,
SEEKS TO CURB FEE
CHARGES AND AGREEMENTS
Miller Proposes Physi-
clans Shall Receive Only Ordinary
Fees as Witnesses - Regulation
Aimed at Charges for Operations
Legislative News.

-peeial to Times Republican.
Des Moines, March 2S.-The senate
passed a bill to define unprotessional
conduct on the part of physician
aud reference to the revoking of GER
iilcate to practice. This includes not
only betrayal OF professional secrets
and ordinary malpractice, bu: employ
ment of capDerS, obtaining fee on
assurance Of cure for a rlanifestiy in
durable disease and advertisement OF
medical business with untruthful and
imDrobab Bile statements. This latter is
really the main feature of the bill. Now
comes the house committee with
amendments proposed by Representa-
tive c. ". Miller, added to the bill
as follows;
Accepting any fee for service as
witness in a case at law or equity 9TH
er than such as is allowed by the
court.
The demanding Of fee manifestly
exoroitant fox a surgical operation.
The srlittine or division or agree
ing 10 split or divide any fee or charge
laid or To be paid on account Of any
operations performed or TO De per-
formed, upon any patient with anN
other person for any service performed
or agreed to be performed or in con
siderat!on of such other person accom-
Danying. bringing or referring 10 MN
patient for any treatment or operation
or on account of such other person as
sisting him in reference 10 such treat
!nent or operation without the knoWl-
edge and consent of the patient or per-
son having the patient in charge or the
patients administrator or executor in
the event of the patients death.
knowingly misstating the cause of
death in death certificate except
where an exact statement would rem
der the physician liable TO suit for
libel, or subject the decedent Of his
family 20 public odium.''
The senate committee on railroads
has adopted a substitute for the
Schrup bill in regard to widening mar
row gaage railroads which provides
that the railroad commission shall
within a year. investigate any railroad
which has less than the standard
suage and taking into consideration
all the elements if the commission
IN order TO that effect is TO be made,
and after stated time it shall be illegal
% operate a narrow guage road.
The senate committee on appropri
atoms assumed jurisdiction over the
pill from the house to take from the
sheriff the right to call ont the militia,
n the ground that in the bill there is
.:c;n ci1 n
Z paying for expense of a guard com
any. Al present, in counties where
"a company is located. if it is called
Ill the sheriff does the calling and
ne county foots the bill If the COM
any has to go over into the next
.ountv the state pays the bill. Under
he biz as it passed the house the
tate would pay in all cases. 1t is eX-
. yected the senate will undertake TO SO
hange it that in all cases the county
here the disturbance occurs will have
10 foot the BILL whether it is a home
company or a neighboring company
md no matter who calls out the COM
amy for police duty.
1t is expected that today the senate
committee on suppression Of intern
perance will act upon all temperance
bills in the hands of the committee. 1t
: stated they will all be reported out
and the senate will have opportunity
! 20 act as whole on every bill. Some
If the reports may be without recon-
rnendaton. which has the same effect
IS any ether report TO get the matter
fairly before the senate. The principa!
bills are the bill to make ve-year
dry period where petition has failed,
The bill for daylight saloons and the
fve-mile limit bill as applied to Iowa
City.
There ere a number Of bills before
| the legislature for salary raising Tor
public servants, but not very great dis
position TO consider them. one Dill
proposes to increase the pay of dis
trict judges of the state from $4,000 a
year to $1,000 a year. A bar commit
tee APPEARED before the judiciary COM
rnittee and urged this measure. II
was pointed out that as a matter OF
fact there is constant tendency on the
part of the ablest judges on the bench
to Quit and enter the practice and this
is not for the best interest of the pub
lie. Judge Hewitt resigned in Des
Moines the other day because the pay
was not commensurate with the work
Judge Ransier quit and is going into
practice in Waterloo. declaring that the
paw was not more than enough for run
ming expenses. 1t is understood there
are other judges who plan to quit. III
a general way, the opportunities for
good pay in private life are SO in
creasing that unless salaries are in
creased there will be difficulty in keep
ing good men in office, SO it is argued
1t is known, for instance that some o.
the new state. officers have had dlnl'
Guilty securing the men they desired fol
y o;;bIic service because the compensa'
ton is too low and good men can no
afford to sacrifice positions to enter TIT
service. There are few salaries paie
by the state that are fair, but muci
larger number that afford the mos
meager living TO those who do import
ant public service.
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