Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-22
Opposition.

Opposition.
DR.. w. j. Maybury of Saco, who OPP
posed the amended bill, said that 1t
meant the establishment in Chicago
of the great trust medical university,
which would injure the smaller col
leges of medicine. The doctors in the
Maine Legislature, Friday, met and
voted against the proposed amendment
to the law.
DR.. Wallace n. Price of Richmond, a
representative, wondered who We're to
be the accredited" graduates of med
zeal colleges.
State Auditor T. F. Callahan APP
peared in behalf of the State against
any change in the present law which
should take the registration fees away
from the State and place them in the
hands of the board of registration OF
medicine, and DIR. John A. Donovan
of Lewiston also opposed any change.
DIR. John Robinson of Bangor. who
was introduced by DR.. Maybury, sur
prised the latter by saying he was
in favor and not against the change
proposed.
That great medical school at Chi
cago for the whole country is a pipe
dream remarked the doctor. We
want to control the practice of medi-
cine for the common benefit of all the
people and not allow the use of drugs
in the hands of people who are in
capable of scientific knowledge of
their USE
DR.. Maybury admitted that, in his
boarding house, pipe dreams" were
common.
Mr.. Harrington here said that the
proponents, to relieve any of the fears
| expressed by those against the bill,
were ready to change the words sae-
| credited graduate" to mean graduate
Of any reputable medical college.
| Dr. Garcelon of Lewiston was call
ed upon by DIR. Maybury, and, per-
| haps influenced by the spiritual mani
| festation of few moments before
when his chair had placed his head
| violently upon the floor, while his feet
waved at the ceiling, he denounced the
| atcion Of the board in strong terms.
He declared he could find no provi-
sions for the elevation of the practice
1 of medicine with the bill calling for
| only High school education.
| DR.. Dana A. Soule of Augusta, 4
| magnetic dealer, interrupted the Lew
iston man to demand if the members
of the judiciary committee should be
considered competent to decide such a
| question.
DR.. Garcelon replied, 81 certainly d.
believe them amply qualified"
il Yet" charged DR.. Soule, they are
not graduates of any medical college
nor qualified in the practice of medi-
- L.
pires in a case which brings a tigh,
among yourselves"
Case of the cIairvoyants.
5. M. Gile of Sangerville opened the
case of the elairvoyants with the as
sertion that the cat in the meal did
not have enough meal over it to Gov
er up the waving tail. He introduced
himself as representing freedom
more specifically, the Spiritual ReIig.
lous Society, chartered under the laws
OF Maine and consisting of 5000 menu
bers. He called upon Mark A. Bar.
wise of Bangor.
Mr.. Barwise, in a vigorous address
consuming nearly an half hour. de-
nounced the bill as standing out for
the complete monopoly of the healing
business" He wanted ONLY that the
ciairvoyants should be allowed to car
ry on their little business. He further
styled the bill absolutely selfish" and
an unwarrantable extension of the
II police power
Judge Stevens of Augusta was in
troduced by Mr.. Gile, to decry the
powers of fining for what he termed
harmless offences. He believed if the
Dill We're passed it would be declared
| unconstitutional