The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-04-23
FREAR
SPEAKS FOR BILL
ON CK|ROPRACT|C
President Of Senate Keen To XIII
~ Measure That Is Highly
Recommended
NO CONFLICT WITH
~ CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Upper House Passes Proposed
Act On Second Reading In
Spite Of Leader
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House bill 262, providing for chiro-
practic, the new art Of regulating the
human anatomy, passed second reading
in the senate yesterday afternoon after
a very strenuous attack on the part Of
President Chillingworth, who fought the
measure from the floor. +iE
The proceedings were rendered doubly
interesting owing to the presence Of
Representatives of the First Church Of
Christ, Scientist, who attended in re.
Spouse to determination Of the senate,
issued the day before, whereby all in,
terested in the bill were asked to ap.
pear. o.. Z. El,.28L
Ghillingworth had claimed that thA
measure, by implication, would prohibit
Christian Science practitioners. Other
members Of the senate failed to see
what connection there was between the
provisions of house bilf 2s2 and Chris.
tion Science, but the president claimed
to the last that the bill, should be
tabled. -
Senator Rice, observing that there
were present numerous ladies and gen.
tlemen expecting the bill in question
to be brought up, moved that this mat
ter be considered ahead Of other bust.
ness. This met with general approval.
| Castle seconded the motion, and the
senate went into committee Of the
whole on. chiropraetic, with yice-PTesi.
Gent Makekau in the chair,
Delegate and Ex-Governor
Just prior to the senate resolving
into whole committee, Senator Writ
had noticed that Delegate TO Congress
Kuhi Kalanianaole was in the cham
her, and he moved that the usual court.
esy be extended. Writ and Castle
were forthwith named to act as com
mittee to escort the washingtonian TO
seat on the president s right. Former
! Governor Walter +. Frear was aIso IN
the legislative hall, and he was escorted
/ by the same committee to the presi-
! dent other side. Scarcely had the
usual little politenesses been exchanged
than the senate went into committee Of
the whole, and Chillingworth left the
distinguished pairin the hands Of Ma
kekau. fsS
1t turned out that Governor Frear
was not to be seated long, however,
for he was called upon to speak his
mind regarding the bill before the COM
mittee. II was understood that be was
interested in the bill, and Chillingworth,
from the floor, undertook to put the
learned lawyer, ex-governor and ex'
chief justice through an examination
that was direct, cross, redirect, recross
and hypothetical The president Of the
senate, who is also deputy city attor-
ney, went at Governor Fear as if the
latter had been exceeding the automo-
bile speed laws aud Chillingworth was
his prosecutar. &
1t was fine exhibition Of prose
eutOr and defending witness, and the
jury, consisting of q majority Of the
senate, found in favor Of the defend.
ant, the report of the health committee,
which recommended the passage Of the
bill, being adopted when the committee
of the whole reported to the senate.
Governor Frear Defends Bill
Governor Frear stated that he appre-
ciated the honor of being asked to sit
beside the president, and he also APP
, Preciated the senate Is invitation for
i'm to speak concerning this bill. Tho
bill was nothing more nor less than
an amendment to section 1917 Of the
, revised laws, 1918, TO allow for the
practise OF chiropraetic, system OF
relieving human Ills that had aceom.
plished great deal Of good. The idea
, Of the law was to permit only qualified
practitioners TO practise and to elm
mate frauds and quacks, just as the
law in regard to medical practitioners
and surgeons was designed TO bar char
: latans. Some time ago an amendment
: had ieen made to the law to permit
the practise of osteopathy. Later an
other amendment had been made by
5 the legislature TO allow Christian Sci
b entsts to Practise Now further
$ amendment was asked to cover this
> practise Of ehiropractie, school which
had scored quite success. The pres
0 ent proposed amendment did not in any
! way affect the general law and did not
u repeal any other. section by implication
e or otherwise. va
o Does Not Affect Christian Science
Neither the doctors nor the Chris.
D tian Scientists were in any way az.
c fected. One who practised chiropraeti,
z might now legally pursue his art IL be
e Practised under the supervision Of a
d regular doctor, but. as could easily b,
5 seen, such a provision was very Oh.
h iectiOnable, as it meant, practically,
l. that in order to practise he might have
: to submit to the dictates of pra,
n titioner of a rival school, This neees
sarily hindered the full expression OF
= the new practitioner. The law wa
e very broad as it stood, and a ehiro
g practic practitioner had no choice hi
o to practise under some other physician
or run the risk Of teiug arrested.
J. Chiropracttc in Demand
q There were many people here, said
h Governor FreaF, who desired the aery