Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-08
mistakes as we'll as the rest of them

mistakes as we'll as the rest of them.
And l feel that in this particular
instance they have made serious
mistake on certain~parts of this bust
| ness which can be remedied by a
committee OF conference, but certain
| ly this bill as it stands now ought
| not to go through. and /. for one,
! feel that the best way to get at it
is to follow after the Senate and
| concur with it.
The SPEAKER: The question is on
the motion Of
Mr.. PICKETT OF Naples: Mr..
! Speaker and members of the House.
| Mr.. Barwise spoke about the lion and
the lamb lying down together. That
| is true in the case of the homeopathic,
! and now the osteopaths want to do
the same thing. but they want to lie
outside and not inside. 1 thinks my
self that this bill ought to be re-
considered because there was not suf-
| ficient evidence laid before Judi
| ciary at the time for them to take
fair value Of the facts. Now this
is matter that strikes into every
mans home. If an osteopath has adj
vertised himself for the last ten years
| as drugless healer. why should you
license all these osteapaths to prac-
tise medicine with the most powerful
drugs known to men. For instance,
in obstetrics. surgery is very i'm
portant thing. and in the course Of
| study in an osteopathic school. the
, surgery of obstetrics is not included.
| think that was not brought
out in the Judiciary hearing.
was there and 1 think DR.. Bryant
thought that the whole mat
! ter was so plain to everybody
that he did not make any extended
remarks. I remember Mr.. Maher
: asking him few technical ques-
! tons and he said that he did not
| have legal mind. Well. then he
should have brought a legal mind
with him and perhaps he might have
! got better report out of that COM
mittee than he did
Now ! think that we ought to re-
| cede and concur with the Senate for
| the simple reason that we do not
| want to turn loose on the people of
| the State Of Maine our approval that
the osteopathic physician. belonging
to a drugless cult. is able to admin
| lister chloroform, ether, strschnine.
atropn. and all the other powerful
| poison that are used in our material
! medica.
Mr.. MAHER Of Augusta: Mr.
| speaker anu seHltcHieH. II ain WEI
much impressed. as member of the
committee. with the very fair state
! ment of the last speaker. In fact.
! am more persuaded by the logic of
! his remarks than l ann by the logic
| of the preceding attorney who spec
| iously referred to the situation of the
lawyers not being qualified to turn
loose on the public, doctors. The
logical conclusion of that legal gen
tleman's remarks would be that this
body of lawmakers. unless they were
particularly conversant with any of
! the particular matters that are de-
! string recognition, that they would
, not be competent to pass laws. and
! therefore the people would have to
! go either unprotected or else get
what little protection they might out
Of their own disorderly manner OF
| procedure. But the statement of the
| Doctor is a logical one and interest
ing and fair, except that it does not
seem to me that his conclusion fol-
lows. wish to be fair about that.
| Now the committee has not the
slightest interest in osteopaths allo-
paths or homeopathic or anybody. eN-
| ccpt to do as near as they
can the right thing. and give a
square deal. And the gentleman
from Naples. Mr.. Pickett. says that
the committee was not in possession
Very fairly-was not in possession
of evidence which it should have had
in order to have rendered any dill
fercnt report than 1t did.
Now, gentlemen of the House. that
situation being. and the over-whelm-
ing mass Of evidence being such that
there was an unanimous report IN
favor Of this bill. do you not believe
| that that creates a prtma facie case
showing that something should be
done. Perhaps the committee has
not framed the bill in just the way
it should be framed. Now there is
only one way to reach that. and
! am speaking all the time to the mo-
ton, there is only one way to con
serve and work out the interests OF
all concerned, il there is need of
change in this bill. and that is to
preserve the bill itself and either
| amend it or recommit it for further
hearing in which evidence might be
brought out. if SO desired. or reach
that. as I said before. by amendment,
But to indefinitely postpone. which!
would be the result of receding and
concurrins. would be to create the
same situation as burning your house
to destroy the rats in case there was
need.
Now is it not fair and wise to pre-
serve the structure of that bill il 1t
can be done? And there is but one
way in the world in which it can be
done, and that would be for TINS
House to vote against the motion OF
the honorable gentleman who mas SO
fairly stated the other side of the
matter, because if we adopt that mo
ton that kills the bill. and if we
vote against his motion the next
proper parliamentary stage woula De
nation TO insist and ask for q COM
mittee Of conference. which IS the
orderly procedure. And the Senate
would appoint conferees who would
represent those who are opposed .Ss
nat is. those who voted against the
,naasure and in favor Of indefinite
REINFORCEMENT. And the House would
annoint impartial men. and from
those conferees. that new commiteee
not made up of any profession that -
in the making Of law distaste'u' ~