The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-20
CHIROPRACTORS WIN
AFTER 2 DAYS DEBATE
Amendment Re-
quiring High School Edu-
cation and Three Years
ChirOpractic Course Was
Accepted and the Bill Was
Ordered to Third Reading.

Governor Clement to-day vetoed Sen
ate bill No. s, comforting presidential snf
frage rights upon women of Vermont
The executive veto was accompanied by
long statement in which the opinion
was expressed that there was doubt of
the constitutionality of such a measure
and that constitutional amendment rath-
er than legislative action is the proper
course for comforting upon women such
rights, The veto caused considerable of
a sensation about the State House.
After a debate which continued all
yesterday afternoon and continued this
morning, the chiropraetors won their
point in the House on House bill Is, re-
lating to chiropractic, and the bill was
ordered to q third reading.
Every amendment to the chroprartie
bill proposed by the opponents OF the
method of healing was voted down this
morning, including the Buttles amend
ment requiring that chiropractors al
ready operating in Vermont should be
required to take three years course.
Then the Alexander amendment was ae-
cepted, requiring a high school education
and three years chiroprsctic schooling
for all future practitioners.
On the opening of the session of the
House debate on the chiropractic bill
was resumed after having been continued
from yesterday afternoon when two
hours and 40 minutes were spent in de-
bate. Mr. White of Woodstock moved
that debate cease and that voting on the
bill commence, since so much time has
already been wasted; but his motion was
defeated.
MIR. Slayton of Morristown started the
morning forensics by saying that he was
sorry if he had hurt the feelings of the
gentleman from Highgate yesterday aft
ernoon in introducing a colored gentle
man, Or" Charles H. Thompson of Bel
lows Falls, who, though a hostler in "A
livery stable by regular trade, was said
to be in possession of a diploma of chi
ropractic from Il Chicago institution.
cdr" Thompson was merely presented
and then took his departure, whereat Mr..
Austin Of Highgate Indignantly protest
ed after his being exhibited
Mr.. Slsyton protested to-day that his
only reason for presenting the exhibit
was to show what sort of men the com
mittee of public health was trying to
protect the state against. Mr. Slayton
said he was ready to offer an amend
ment at the proper time to make the re-
quirement for preliminary education four
years in high school, instead of leaving
it to the University of Vermont to deter.
mine, as the amendment to the bill read.
Mr.. Austin of Highgate said that the
type OF "nigger" who was seen in the
House Yesterday was the very menace
which the friends of the chiropraetors
wish to provide against by obtaining H.
cense to practice through proper qualif
cations. He characterized the action of
those who brought this negro to Mont.
pelier as mud throwing" aimed at the
bill Mr.. Austin also referred to La
moille county, the place where chattei
mortgages and calf skins are legal ten.
der" and briefly referred to some of the
members from that county who were in
opposition to his views. He also had
much to say about this being the day of
cures by nature and the possibilities of
Christian Science. He thought every
man ought To have the opportunity to
exercise his own free will as to whom he
would employ in case of sickness.
Mr. Williams of Proctor believed that
the proper standards of requirements
should be maintained else the state
would be going backward instead of for
ward. He read telegram from one
K. X. Smith, concerning case of collie
being cured by means Of chiropractic
treatments, mentioned in the discussion
Yesterday. This Mr.. Smith stated that
he was the practitioner who had effected
this cure and that he was not Chro-
practor, but an osteopath. and that this
misstatemeut of the facts had caused
him much trouble in the past
MIR. Beknap of Rockingham spoke
briefly, and was willing to have the bill
amended so as to eliminate chemistry
from the list of subjects which the chi
ropractors were required to be examined
in to get license, if this would help the
situation any.
Mr.. Estee of Montpelier said that 10
people had called on him at a late hour
last evening and asked him to speak on
this matter, otherwise he would not have
taken up the time of the House. He felt
that the standards should be kept high
for the practice of the medical profession,
but he thought that the standards pro
vided by the amendments of the com
mittee we're too high, and that tho
amendments of Mr. Alexander did not
seem quite high enough, so that there
ought to be compromise.
Mr. Taylor of Hardwick said he was
not willing to let a chiropractor, the
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