Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-02-20
CH|ROPRACT|C BILL
SUBJECT OF DEBATE
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cal registration In the State under any
circumstances.
A CASE IN HAND
Mr.. Writer'S played upon the feelings
OF his hearers Ivy reading letter from @
mother in st. Johnsbury, who said thai
her little girl had been cured OF terrible
defornity and sufciing through the aid
Of chiropractice. Mr.. Writer'S said thai
he knew this fanny personally and he
pictured graphically the happiness which
had come into the child's life. closing
with an appeal For fair play for the
chiropractor.
Mr.. Buttles OF Brandon interrogate ed
Mr.. Alexander regarding the amend
ments which he proposed to offer. and
said that the House should consider
the matter without prejudice or feeling
and with the view of adequately pro-
tecting the health OF the citizens Of Yer
mont. Mr.. Ruttles was in favor Of tho
bill as amended. and urged that tho State
require that the man who treated the
human body be as skilfu as possible,
just as we would require a man who
worked on our automobile TO understand
the machine thoroughly. MIR. Mcfarland
Of Hyde Park also favored the bill as
amended and Mr.. Slayton OF Morrstown
public health.
WOULD NOT LEAVE 1T TO U. V. NJ.
Mr.. Tracy of johnson got into action
and relieved himself of another of his
spell binders" He favored most of tho
amendments of the committee Of public
health but thought that II ought not TO
be left to the University Of Vermont to
determine what should be the require
.Ing, Ifni In
State, but that this should be decided by
the Legislature. He maintained that the
bite of the whole bil' was in section
six, which provides for the examination
of the IL chiropractors now practicing in
the State.
MIR. AIKEN IS APPLAUDED
Mr.. Aiken of Putney was greeted with
applause as soon as he appeared on hil
feet. He upheld his reputation maintain
ing that he had just had some expert
ences with this chiropractor business"
He said:
you imagine you have something
the matter with you; you go to a
doctor. If he imag mes you have a
good roll, he agrees with you. l hon
estly believe my wife has been taxi
ing lessons in this chiropractic. / was
not feeling very we'll yesterday and
when she came in with her hat on.
ready to go town, i said to her:
IF you are going to see any of those
pretty little chiropractors downt town.
send one of them up to pinch my spine
You roll over; I'll do the pinching,'
said my wife. / rolled over and was
relieved within one minute-relieved of
my pocketbook; and that's the way
these chiropractors usually relieve
people"
In closing his brief address Mr.
Aiken said:
II hope nobody will be allowed to
go up and down this State pinching
backbones before they learn on which
side of your carcass the backbone lies"
After Speaker Dana had raped for
order a couple of times, he shouted:
will the House please be quiet?'
MR. ALEXANDER AGAIN
This was the signal for Mr., Alexander
10 again take the floor. The gentle
man from st. Adams again maintain ed
his amendment covered the ground re-
Quired by law and said the chiroprac-
tors wish the passage of the original
bill to protect themselves against
fakes He told of the chiropractic
school at Davenport. Iowa, with its
500 students, and it's largest medical
department in the country. He said
that this school requires for a diploma
three years work as resident stu
dent. In closing. Mr.. Alexander re-
ferred to the Bible where in IT is
stated the Great Physician told His dis.
ciples when speaking of those who
were pretending to heal men, to for
bid them not" whereupon Mr.. Slayton
asked the gentleman from st. Adams
10 m yhi nj
said that "f the blind leadeth the
blind, both shall fall into the ditch"
There followed n sharp tilt between Mr..
Alexander and Mr.. Sayton which was in
terrupted by several interrogations on
the part of Mr.. Austin of Reading, Mr..
Hills of Chittenden, and Mr.. Tracy of
Johnson. all of whom favored the bill as
reported by the committee.
Mr. Tracy declared that Mr.. Alexander
and those who opposed committee report
were trying to let the u chiropractors now
practicing in the State through without
coming up TO qualifications. He wanted
to know who was to decide what was "a
reputa BILE school," as mentioned by Mr.
Alexander in his argument. Mr.. Alextn-
der explained but not to Mr.. Tracy's sat
isfaction and things got hot tor few
4moments. Mr.. Alexander sits Just be-
hind Mr.. Tracy, and at the climax OF his
fervid remarks, the gentleman from John
son turned and thrusting his fist up I'M
der Mr.. AIexander's nose he questioned
in rhetorical accents
$40 Won dare make that qualification
for the 70 men now practicing chirop"actic
An the State" referring TO the qualifica-
Won Of a high school education and three
years III q reputable chiropractic school,
as mentioned in Mr.. Alexander's amend
ment
At this poin. in the show, Mr.. Buttles
/, moved for adjournment and the motion
went through with bang at 5:55 p. m
BATES APPOINTMENT CONFIRMED
In short executive session this morn
ing, the Senate confirmed the reap
pointment of Stoddard Bates as highway
commissioner for the next two years.
MULE BILL" PASSED
Once again the mule bill" II. 76,
which was finally advanced to n third
reading. as amended, yesterday morning
after long dscu' sion, took up the big
end OF the morning in the House to-day,
after il had been further amended by
Mr.. Luce Of Pomfrct. Tho amendment
was finally accepted and the bill passed.
112 to g. The big Fight came on tho
new amendment which qualities the
Amendment offered yesterday imposing a
penalty of 5000 for exposing infected car
cases for sale The new amendment
adds, "unless such stock has been in
spected by an agent of the Bureau Of
Animal Industry Of the United States de-
partment Of agriculture" This allows