The Penn's Grove record., 1921-04-01
MEDICAL BILL
UP TO GOVERNOR
Assembly After Hearing by Medi-
cal Men and ChiropraCtors
Passes Senate Medical Bill.
NEW YORK PORT BILL PASSED
In Passing the Case Bill Over the
Governors Veto, Legislature lnsures
State Police Protection-Llquor
Enforcement Bill Passed.

Observation-Disclosures of New Jerseys
medical profession won a second vie
tory over the chiropractors when the
Assembly passed on final reading, by
a vote of 40 to Il, the senate bill that
abolishes the State Chiropractor
Board and gives chirOpractOrs rep
resentation on the State Board Of Med
lcal Examiners.
The passage of the senate measure
was %stubbornly contested on the
floor Of the house. For more than
two hours, members wrangled with
one another over the merits of a
substitute bill prepared by the spe-
cial committee to which the bill was
referred. The substitute bill would
Increase to sixteen the membership
On the State Board of Medical EXaml-
ners and give ch~irOpractorS three rep
1esentatives, osteopaths three and the
medical profession the other ten.
The senate bill, introduced by
Senator Barber, now goes to Governor
Edwards. Before the Assembly took
UP the measure as a special order of
business, Republican members were
called into a ten minute conference.
The Barber bill permits the State
Medical Board to issue limited licen-
ses for the practice of special methods
of healing. 1t not only abolishes the
Chiropraetor Board, created by legis-
lation of last year, but ads one mem
Der, a chiropractor, to the State Board
of Medical Examiners.
A. .,a. - d. ar,.s,faEA IaapfPE-
held at this session the medical men
and chiropractors fought over the pas
sage of a bill before the special house
committee designed to do away with
The State Board of C%hiropratic EX-
3miners. Speakers advocated their
respective views to the accompaniment
Of cat calls, laughs and jeers until the
hearing degenerated into affairs of
mutual recriminations on the part of
opposing forces, a number of speakers
INDUCING in bitter personalities. The
hearing was brought to a close abrupt
ly by the chairman of the committee.
The medical viewpoint as expressed
at the hearing was an objection to
what was termed a Towering of edu-
cational standards on the part of the
chirOpractors and Osteopaths, in ad-
%vOcating a separate board of eXami-
ners. Chiropractors and o~steOpathS,
on the other hand asserted that they
were waging a national fight against
medical autocracy."
DR.. Wells p. Eagleton, Newark,
speaking for the medical fraternity,
declared that profession sent more
men to the wall than any other two
professions combined. He asserted
efforts of chirOpractors and osteO-
paths would mean lowering of stand
ards which it had taken the medical
men thirty years to establish. Chiro-
practOrs and o~steopaths favored a
compromise bill to place three men of
each branch on the State Board of
Medical Examiners and allow them
full sway over their respective schools
Of healing. The bill as advocated by
medical men would add one ~chiroprac-
tor to the present State Medical Board.
Port Bill Passed
Without a vote being recorded
against it, the house passed senate bill
No. 49,, which would permit a State
Commiss on to enter upon agreements
with the New York board for the de-
velOpment of the Port of New York.
Assemblyman Arthur n. PiersOn Of
Union County, declared the proposed
pact between New Jersey and New
York was a constructive measure in
which New Jersey would reap mate
rial benefit. He said many had given
New York harbOr conditions and their
future Improvement careful study and
believed New Jersey would have the
better of the bargain"
A~ssemblyman PiersOn explained
that Manhattan had more nearly
reached the limit of her harhor de-
velOpment and that the proposed pact
opened wide the door to New JERSEYS
opportunity.
Fight for Renting Bill
Rents have increased in Jersey City
IS per cent during the last year and
there are now more than 5000 dis
possesses notices in the hands of ten
ants with no checks placed upon tie
profiteering landlords, according to
the statement of Commissioner Can
non in talking before the Senate Judic-
AIRY Committee in behalf of Assembly
nan Nelson's bill, House 31S, designed
20 partially remedy this evil.
Commissioner Cannon recommended
The passage of the bill as drawn with
two amendments to be added-one de-
ining landlords, and the other making
certain classes of property exempt
from its provisions.
Farm lands, hotels, summer cottages
and bungalows, and rooming houses,
renting rooms by the week or a less
period Of time. are excluded from the
provisions of the bill. The landlords
are defined as owners.
Commissioner Cannon led the fight
in behalf of the bill, being aided by
Mayor Charles p. Gillen of Newark,
Dr. Noah Geiger, member of the may