Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1897 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL; WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1897.

THE DAILY JOUKXAL WKDXIiSDAY, MARCH 1?97.

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THE I.UM AXAPOLIS .lOlENAL. Can be found at the following places: NEW YOKE Windsor Hotel and A trior House. CHICAGO Palmer House arid I. O. News Co.. ill 7 L-ear burn rt.-eet. Cl.NCINNATl-J. J:. Hawley Co.. lid Vine me-t. XjU LIS VILLI: C T. lviinj?. northwest rurnrr or Third and Jefferson street, tad Louisville Bock Co., 1 ourth avenue. 8T. LOUIS Union News Company. Union DepotWASHINGTON, I). C nipjrs HouFe, Ebbltt lloute, Whiard's Hotel and the WaFhii.yton News Exchange. Fourteenth tiieet, between "l'enn. avenue and F street. Senator Tillman seldom open. his mouth that he do'-s t;ot rut his foot in it, and when he does that I.; steps ou it pitchfork. The celebrated courtesy of the Senate was Etralncd to a joint of great fragility when Tillman and Hawley had their little set-to. President-elect IIcKinley has a large share of common so rise and of the dislike of fuss and leathers which plain people have. If they may he judged hy the girgeousness of their staffs some of the Governors attending the inauguration will b- much bigger men than the President. A comparatively small delegation will go from Indiana to attend the McKinley Inaugural ceremonies. The Hoosjers are generous and willing to give Ohio men a chance. Why this dreadful anxiety on the part of certain legislators to pass a bill prohibiting the nalo of cigarettes to minors while a law of that character Is already on the statute books? The Legislature Is doing tood work on the round-up, and the last, week of the session Is likely to be marked by tpe passage of several measures that will add materially to the record of the session. Kegret over Mr. Cleveland's illness will be universal. His nervous system Is said to be out of order, and everybody can see that the Senate has been enough to v:ear out the nerves of even a more robust man than the President. t The new secretary of agriculture was the first representative In Congress to Introduce a bill making the office a Cabinet position, but that was nearly twenty-five years ago, and he says he had not the remotest Idea that he would ever fill It. It was a pretty thing for the Presidentelect to do, the handing of a bunch of flowers to the engineer of the train that conveyed him and his family safely to Washington. It was a little thing and easily dene, but the thinking of It was creditable. The custom of entertaining the Incoming President at a dinner by the outgoing one is of very recent origin and a very appropriate one. It gives something of the appearance of continuity to the administration, Is a relief from partisan strife, and one of the flowers that grow on the walls cf politics. At the municipal elections in Iowa on Monday many cities and towns which Went Itepubllcan in the national election last fall were carried by the Democrats or by citizens movements. The fact seems to Indicate a growing tendency on the part of the people to eliminate national politics Xrom municipal elections. Human butcheries are always shocking, but In the case of tho reported massacre of two thousand Mussulmans by the Christians in Crete the feeling of horror will be accompanied by some sense of satisfaction that the tables have been turned. For the last few years the Mussulmans have been doing all the massacring. No gentleman can meet Blatherskite Tillman on square terms, even though both etand on the Moor of the Senate, and Senator Hawley would have saved his dignity had fie Ignored the South Carolinian's xnouthlngs Instead of replying to him. What Tillman says has no weight with anybody of intelligence, and it is not worth while to treat him as a responsible being. The glory of Canton If departed and in a large sense Canton itself has become bsolete. It cannot be said that the places which knew It shall know it no more forever, because It still has an actual existence and place on the map. but it is certain that many pernons who have been reading a great deal about it for several months past will never care to hear of it again. Some person cards a Washington paper abusing tho artist who designed the souvenir cards for the Inauguration ball becr.use he put into the picture of the illuminated pension building by night a full moon, when the almanac says there will only be a crescert on March 4. Such carping criticism Indicates a lack of patriotism. The moon has a right to be full on inauguration night whether the almanac says so or not. The House has done well In doing away. In the closing days of the session, with the practice of explaining votes. The practice should not prevail at any time. The public notes how a legislator votes, but It does not care anything about his reasons for so voting. Those chiefly concern himself, and It is generally for purely personal reasons that a man wants to state them. Time that belongs to the State should not be taken up with personal explanations. The Michigan House of Representatives has passed a bill providing for a bounty of 1 cent a pound to be paid by the State to Michigan manufacturers of sugar from beets grown within the State. It is provided that the law is to be Inoperative In case the federal government shall also ar

range for the payment of a bounty on such sugars. Thi3 action shows a commendable spirit of enterprise. The profits Cf sugarbeet growing are somewhat problematic, everything depending upon the climate and soil, and few farmers or manufacturers can afford to experiment extensively. Unless lare quantities of beets are grown, the establishment of factories is useless and impossible, the necessary machinery being costly, and it seems proper that tncouragement le orfered for the promotion of so lmiortant an industry. It is a commendable spirit of enterprise, too. which would have tho State Icok after the matter rather than to wait an indefinite time for possible aid from the national government, coxsi l c;exeiial lee ami the A I) M I I ST It ATI () X.

Press dispatches in yesterday's Journal show that there was sufficient ground for the recent rumors of friction and strained relations between Consul General Lee and the secretary of state. Some of General Lees dispatches to the State Department .concerning the imprisonment and cruel treatment of American citizens In Cuba were very curt, and his hint that he would resign unless, in a certain contingency, he was supported by the presence of United States war vessels at Havana, pushed matters very far. The contingency in which General Lee threatened to resign was the failure of the secretary of state to support his demand for the release of Charles Scott, an American citizen then under arrest or a trivial charge, and subjected to very harsh treatment. Whether the State Department supported the demand for Scott's release or not does not appear, but he was released and thus the contingency in which the consul general threatened to resign was averted. It would have been a very sensational incident in the last week of the administration if he had resigned and come home loaded with evidence of its nerveless policy In Cuba. For while most of the persons claiming protection as American citizens were paper citizens only and were violating the rights of citizenship, there have doubtless be-en some cases In which the claimants were entitled to better and prompter protection than they have received. Some surprise has been expressed at the almost peremptory tone of the consul general's message to the secretary of state and at the fact that he should meddle with diplomatic duties at all. Under other circumstances his course would have been open to criticism, but it must be remembered that the United States has no minister in Cuba and the consul general is necessarily clothed with larger powers than he would be if we had a diplomatic representative there. Thl3 is particularly true in time of war, when It sometimes becomes necessary to act very' promptly and vigorously. The position of consul general in Cuba Is always an Important one, and in time of war it Involves as much responsibility and delicate duties as any mission of the higher class. General Lee's position that the rights of American citizens should be fully protected and that his efforts to this end should be strongly backed up by the government Is undoubtedly right in principle, but the government has a right to insist that each case shall be treated on its merits and that the government shall not be deceived by persons making their alleged American citizenship a cover for the prosecution of Illegal or revolutionary designs. If General Lee has erred It has been on the side of too much zeal In protecting those who claimed to be American citizens, and if tho administration has erred It has been in the direction of being too slow to recognize tho rightfulness of the claim in Individual cases. HEVISIOX OF THE COXSTITL'TIOX. The discussion concerning the propriety of a convention to amend the Constitution is calling out reasons for and against. Those in favor are fundamental and might be summed up in the general statement that the present Constitution h behind the times. Possibly the necessary changes might be made in the form of amendments passed by successive Legislatures and adopted by the people, but such a course savors of patchwork and tinkering. There ht scarcely a Northern State whoso constitution has not been revised since that of Indiana, though the New Ungland States have been more conservative in this regard than the Middle and Western States. Among the objections to a convention are the expense, the danger that the convention might be controlled by the Populist or agrarian spirit, the possibility that there would not be wisdom enough in the convention to frame a Constitution that would be better than the present one, and the fact that it would take years for the courts to cemstrue the various provisions of a new Constitution, whereas those of the present one are fairly well understood. It will hardly be maintained by any person that the xresent Constitution should never be revised by a convention chosen by the people, yet the? reasons above cited against taking the preliminary steps now for holding such a convention would apply with equal force against ever holding one. The objection based on expense is trivial. If the organic law of the State really needs revision the question of expense should not be taken into account at all. A convention would, of course, be conducted In a reasonably economical manner, and it Is to be presumed that a new Constitution would be worth all it cost. The fear that a convention might be controlled by the Populist or agrarian spirit which would thus find expression in the Constitution does not siem to be well founded. There is very little of that spirit in the Legislature, and the more serious duty of selecting persons to frame a new Constitution would probably makt the people even more careful as to the character of tho:se elected than they are ordinarily in the choice of a Legislature. The Populist spirit has never been as strong in Indiana as In some other States, and Is not gaining ground at present. The suggestion that there might not be wisdom enough in a convention to frame a better Constitution than the present one seems rather far-fetched. If L'O men fit to be constitution makers could be found nearly fifty years ago, surely an equal number could be found now. when the population of the State Is so much greater. The constitutional convention of lvd was Indeed an exceptionally fair body, but we ought not to be willing to admit that on equally as able could not be chosen now or that the people would bo satisfied with a lower standard in the character and ability of the persons chosen as members. There Is some doubt whether the statesmen of to-day are as good constitution makers as those of fifty years ago In respect of style and phraseology, and the modern tendency towards putting too much legislation and too many details into a constitution is objectionable, but these tendencies could be guarded against. There would be enough able men in tho body to keep it on right

lines In this respect. Finally, the objection that it would take so long for the courts to construe a new Constitution is not a weighty one. The courts have not got done construing the Constitution of 1S51 yet, and will not as long as there are so many igncrant attorneys and incompetent judges. The provision of the present Constitution that every person of Rood moral character may practice law has been responsible for a. Kreat increase in the number of "constitutional lawyers" who know very little about the Constitution or laws, and some of these occasionally get Into jositlons where they add to the work of the higher

courts by making wrong decisions. If the Constitution is ever revised that provision will doubtless be left out. The question of revision Is only one of time, and the necessity will become more apparent every year. mother mkinli:y. The public will not object to one car In the train which carried the President-elect from Canton to Washington being designated as Mother McKlnley's car. There is something rather pleasing to the American mind In the Idea of a woman eighty-eight years old traveling all the way from Ohio to Washington to see her son Inaugurated as President of the United States. It is not recalled that any other woman or any other President has enjoyed that experience heretofore. The country does not think the less of the President-elect for knowing that he has always been an attentive and dutiful son, and, as great men almost inevitably have great mothers, it will readily believo that Mother McKinley Is no ordinary woman. Her old-fashioned Christian name, Nancy, the same as the mother of Lincoln, shows that she belongs to the old school. When she was born it would have taken some weeks of hard travel to make the journey from Ohio to Washington. The State itself was still in itsSs swaddling clothes, and Indiana was a territory. The war of 1S12 was still a future event. Kailroads, steamships, the electric telegraph, the telephone and the thousand inventions of the nineteenth century were yet unborn. Even friction matches were not invented till long afterwards, and when Mother McKinley got up in the night to make catnip tea for little William or to tuck him up in his trundle-bed, she had to make a light with a live coal from the wood lire. In taking care of the child she builded better than she knew. In her fondest anticipations for his future she could luirdly have dreamed that she would live to accompany him to Washington on a special train of steam cars and see him inaugurated President of the United States. The heart of the people will go out to Mother McKinley. Without discussion a bill has passed the House to increase the school levy to IS cents on each $100, the same as it was during the period that the State valuation was $00,000,000, instead of the present 51,200,OWXt). Under the old valuation the lG-cent levy produced $1,372,279. Upon tho present valuation the 11-cent levy produces $1,422,541, or over $G0,CC0 more than under the old assessment. It is now proposed to go back to tho old lC-cent levy on a valuation onethird larger, which means that J2.0US.400 will be raised for tuition, Increasing the State tax $G73,COO a year. So much money is not needed, and would not be thought of if those who are behind this scheme did not desire to make the cities pay nearly all of the school expensesxof other portions of the State. So much money taken from localities already heavily taxed will be wasted, as It was during the single year that this large sum was raised by permitting the lG-cent rate to stand with the higher valuation. It Is, to put It mildly, a great wrong supplemented by a great waste. This bill, which has been crowded through tho House without debate, should be stopped in the Senate. At the opening of the Criminal Court in St. Joseph, Mo., on Monday, the judge instructed tho jury that crime was increasing In this country at an alarming rate. In support of this statement he said: For Instance, prior to lSStJ, less than l.COJ murders and justifiable homicides were committed annually in the Lnited States. In lto'i the number reached 1,W, 1. listf. 2.SS-1; l5.su, 3.176; 1mj, 4,u; 1MU, 0,luU; li'j2. H.I'Jl; l!l'J. ,t15; 164, S.buO; l5i5, lu.m, whilo it is estimated that in l!ii tne lives of almost n.00 of our lellow-citizens were taken by their fellow-men. These facts are not only tenable, but so astounding as to be almost beyond belief. With all our boasted civilization and progress, the fact yet stares us in the lace that we are a nation of red-handed murderers. No European nation has in proportion to population as many murderers as we have. Even Italy, known as the most murderous of nations, has annually less than one-eighth as many murders with one-half as great a population. All other forms of crime are increasing in about the same proportion. Though made by a Missouri Judge, this statement is of general application. How to account for the alarming increase of crime and how to arrest it are questions of vital importance. Mr. McKinley has requested the dlsbandment of the special patrol or bodyguard of twenty-four policemen who have done duty In and near the White House during Mr. Cleveland's administration. It was a foolish and unnecessary precaution, and its abolition will relieve twenty-four policemen from special &ervice to perform their legitimate duties in the city of Washington. It is not fitting that the hdSne and ollicial residence of the President should swarm with uniformed policemen. Two propositions to amend the Constitution before the House seem worthy of favorable action. One of these provides for an increase in the number of judges In the Supreme Court at the expiration of the terms of the Appellate judges, and the other makes it possible to require of those who are admitted to the bar to practice law some knowledge of its principles before admission. Friends of Mr. McKinley say he will have little trouble in completing the list of Cabinet appointees, even on this last day before the inauguration. They are right without doubt. If any of the selections he has already made fail to stick, all he need to do is to look out of his window and make another choice. Washington is full of statesmen in waiting. The three-cent-fare bill failed to pass last evening because of a failure to secure the constitutional majority, it is a very important measure to one-twelfth of the inhabitants of Indiana. It is opposed by a foreign conoratlon which has shown no disposition to treat the 'people of Indianapolis with any consideration. The college professors are now engaged In writing to the magazines In behalf of the arbitration treaty. They don't know anything about its legal aspects or whether It puts the United States at disadvantage in any way or not, but to a man they are convinced that it is the greatest document of the age. The Indianapolis Sun is the first to notice end call attention to the publication of Mr. Riley's well-known poem, "Nothln" at all to Say.'? over the name of "U Milton Smith,"

In Sothoron's Magazine. It Is not an Imitation, it is the poem, verbatim; and the publication reflects, almost as seriously on the editors of the little magazine for their lack of acquaintance; with these familiar verses as upon I. Milton tfmith for his deliberate steal.

Very black headlines and some remarkable illustrations in I-oulsville papers convey to thj world tho information that that city has count ilmen and aldermen for sale cheap. As likely as not tho gentlemen In question, however cheap they may be, do not enjoy being placed on the bargain counter in this fashion. Ciuncilman Sherrer Is said to be going about anywhere and everywhere except Council meetings, with the smoke ordinance in his pocket. He ought to be smoked out. IUISULES I THE Allt. One Question Settletl. "I wonder if Adam could have had any poetic talents?" . ' !; "Of course not. Poets are born; not made." The Weather Prophet. Of all sad words of tongue or pen By mankind writ or spoken. We'll hear these saddest ones again: "Well. Winter's backbone's broken." The Soul of un Arlit. "Why are you here?" asked the missionary. "Fer tryin' to pick a woman's pocket," answered the sequestered gentleman. "Now, my good man. you see what greed has brought you to." "It wasn't greed at all. I knowed In the first place that there wouldn't bo nothing worth taking, but I jist wanted to see if I could do it." And the Incident Closed. "Here is a horrible story in the paper about a woman who put arsenic in her husband's coffee," said Mr. Lushforth, who was just at that time in the sentimental stage of his daily inebriation. "You wouldn't servo your poor hubby such a trick as that, would you, dear?" "Of course not," said Mrs. Lushforth. "If I wanted to poison you, 1 would put it In your beer, wheru you would be sure to get it." AUOIT PEOPLE AMI T2IEMSS. A South Carolina man has forty acres of tea plants. The shrubs are about three feet high and planted m rows six feet apart. Many of the gowns to be worn at the inauguration bali will be of brilliant red net with trimmings to suit the varied taste ot the wearers. The most recent combination to attract tho feminine fancy is to have a "bargain tjouuter" attachment to a matinee. Detween the acts there is a special sale in the lobbies. It has been successtully tried in Urooklyn. Persian papier mache articles are made of the lilbles sent out by British mission societies, according to Mr. Hodgetts, a recent traveler in the EasL He quotes the British consul at Tabreez aa saying: "You have no idea what a boon these Bibles are to the village lndustries of Persia." The state of religion in Colorado may be judged from the following item from the Victor Times: "The Rev. Mr. L Is expected to arrive In Victor this evening. He will occupy the pulpit of the Rev. M , whose brokerage ouintss now requires his entire time, tendering it impossible lor him to fuilill his duties as pastor." Before the. fall of Richmond, a gentleman called en President Lincoln and asked for a pass lor that place. "I should be very happy to oblige you." said the President, "ir my passes were respected. But tho fact is, I have within tne pat two years given passes to iso.uuo men to go io Richmond, and, as yet, not one has reached the place." Some time ago the Queen of Italy asked a little girl to knit her a pair of siik mittens for her birthday, giving her the money for the material. A pair of beautifully worked mittens arrived, on .. the Queen's birthday. The UttlO girl?, received' in return another pair; on mitten contained lires, the other bonbons, tueen Marguerite inclosed a note, saying: "Tell me, my dear cniid, which you hkc- best." Tne itply ran as follows: "Dearest Queen: Your lovely presents have made me shed many tears. Papa took the initten with the money; my brother hud the bonbons." The famous American prima donna, Minnie Hauk, is now living quietly at her beautiful villa near Lucerno with her husband, Chevalier Von Hesse Wartcgg, who is a distinguished traveler and writer of books of travel, and is not, like so many husbands ot prima donnas, dependent upon his wife's income. Minnie Hauk lived as a girl in the now deserted town of Sumner, Kan., three miles below Atchison, ana waited on the table at her mother's boarding house. The Atchison Globe says that she came to Atchison to give a concert after she had become famous, but she did not attract muct; attention except among a lew of her mother's old boaruers. Great interest has been created in astronomical circles by some of the results reached by Prof. Simon Newcomb in his more recent investigations. One of these is that astronomers have been overestimating the distances of the stars. The conclusion Professor Newcomb bases on an idea that the stars which are called tho smaller ones, because they are less bright, may not be large stars at a very great distance, but perhaps smaller or dimmer ones nearer at hand. The old ide-i is familiar to all. namely, that ail the stars are of the same brightness, and that the fainter ones are at a very much greater distance from us than the bright ones; this theory, however, has been weakened by later discoveries. A pump gazed on McKinley. then scratched his stolid nob And said, "Great Scott! I'm lucky That 1 haven't got his job." Allegheny Record. However long the line may be With civic folk and troopers. Each marcher proudly feels that ho Is grandest in that pageantry; The rest are merely supers. Washington Star. The Price. A man lived fifty years joy dashed with tears: Loved, toiled; had wife and child, and loi them; died; And left of all his long life's work one little That lasted nought beside. I.Ike the monk Felix's bird, that son?? wrs heardLoubt prayed. Faith b oared. Death smiled itself to sleep; That song saved rouls. You say? The man paid Ktiifiy? Say. God paid and thought It cheap. -William Canton, in tha Chap-nook. A Matter for the Chnrltlc Hoard. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journsl: I do not wish to antagonize your proposition to put women on the boards of the benevolent institutions, but merely as a matter of curiosity should like to inquire why it is. if the insane hospitals are so lacking in the proper facilities for the special treatment of female patients, that the fact has not been discovered and attention called to it by tho women who are members of the State Board of Charities. It was precisely for the detection and correction of matters of this sort that they were placed upon the board, yet I find no allusion to the fact which you mention editorially In any of the annual reports of the board. If you have not been misinformed, and the singular lack really exists, and neither these members of the board nor the women physicians employed Ih the hospitals have sought to remedy it, what reason is there to believe that women on the several boards of trustees would do better? F. M. G. Vvnntu n Clcun Fair. To the U.litor of the Inlianipolls Journal: Tell a "Farmer" who writes in your issue of March 2 that his splendid plea for the State fair will undoubtedly be appreciated; but he must find some way to banish horse racing as well as side shows and gambling dens. If he will investigate a little further he will find there Is a numerous though silent opposition to horse racing as now conducted and tending. 'A pure, clean, uncontaminated iair Is to be de-drod. Iet us have that or none. SHELBY VI LLE. Work for Our I's-l'reiihlf nt. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. , There will soon be two ex-Presidents, and both engaged In" Wallrinif he tloor ut night, though not with tho cart of thatc

DOCTORS ARE HAPPY

TIIEIfl MTTI.K niLI, ItUtitL ATIXti THE Pit ACTICE PASSES HOUSE. Comparatlvrly Kev Votm AealnM the Mcnuiirc Provisions (ilvon In I'ull. The Shideler medical bill finally got through the House yesterday by the heavy vote of to 13, and Dr. W. X. WIshard, who has worked so incessantly for it. Is extremely happy over the result. He and the other physicians believe they can push it through the Senate without trouble. It was called up by Dr. Knepper and tho roll call was taken without discussion. It resulted as follows: Ayes Babcoek. Darlow, Berry. Bowers, Brown. Butler. Canada. Clauser. Clayeomb. Cockrum. Downey, Elchhorn. Elliott of Henry. Elliott ef Marlon. Fornshell. Furness. Goddard. Graham, Hall. Hart, Hedgecock. Hubbard. J.nnes, Jernegan, Jones, K el ley, Knepper, Kratz. Linck. Littleton, McCrea, Medsker. Miller, Monyhn, Morgan, Morris. Newton, Nicholson. Packard,. Patterson of Franklin. Patterson of Fulton, Pecklnpaugh. Purvis. Randolph, Reynolds, Rhodes. Rifenberg. Roose. Roots, Iioss, Ryan. Schaal. Schoonover. Schrader, Sence, Shideler, Smith of Allen, Spooner. Stetler, Sutton, Swope, Thomas. Titus, Wair, Williams. Willoughby, Woodruff-. Noes Blankenship. East. Engle. Elliott of Washington. Feist, Geisel, liaitiey. Harris, Henderson, Herod. Kayser, McCart, McGeath, Mann. Marsh. O'Bannon, Patterson of Daviess, Pinnick, Record, Sullivan, Wise 19. The bill provides "that it shall hereafter be unlawful for any person to practice medicine, surgery or obstetrics in this State without first obtaining a license so to do. as hereinafter provided. "Sec. 2. After this law goes Into effect, any person desiring to begin the practice of nwlicine, surgery or obstetrics In this State shall procure from the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination a certificate that such person Is entitled to a license to practice medicine, surgery or obstetrics In the State of Indiana; and in order to procure such certificate the applicant shall submit to the State Board cf Meelical Registration and Examination his diploma, with an affidavit setting forth tho time and under what circumstances said diploma was received, and that the alliant is the person to whom such diploma was issued. Such application shall be accompanied by the affidavits of two freeholders resident In the gam.) county In which the applicant resides, stating that the applicant is the person named In the accompanying diploma and application for a certificate. All diplomas received by the board shall be returned to the person owning tho same. Such applicant shall pay to said board tho sum of six dollars ($C) at the time of making such application. All persons practicing medlcine surgery and obstetrics in the State of Indiana when this law gos Into effect, and de-siring to continue the same, shall, within ninety days thereafter, obtain a certificate that they are entitled to do so by presenting to the Ktate Loard of Medical Registration and Examination the license possessed by them at tho time of the passage of this law, together with an affidavit that they are the legal possessors of the same, and the persons mentioned therein, and such applicant shall pay to the board the sum of one dollar (fl) at the time of making such application. The board shall thereupon issue to such applicant a certificate, which, when presented to the county clerk of the proper county, shall entitle the holder to a license to practice menlicine. surgery and obstetrics in the State of Indiana. In the event an applicant for a certificate from the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination shall present a diploma from a medical e-ollege which is not recognized as maintaining a sufficiently high grade or standard of medical education as defined and lixeel In the records of the board, the applicant shall have the privilege of being examined as to his qualifications to practice medicine, surgery and obstetrics in such manner as the board shall provide, and if he shall pass an examination satisfactory to the board ho shall receive a certificate the same as If he had presented a satisfactory diploma and other evidences of qualifications for the practice of medicine. But if he should fall to pass such examination he shall le permitted to submit to another examinatioti within twelve months from the time of first examination. He shall pay to the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination the sum of twenty-live dollars $25), fifteen dollars ($15) of which sum shall be returned to him In the event of his failing to pass said examination: Provided, however, that pavment of said sum of twentylive dollars 25) shall entitle him to a reexamination in case of failure at the first or anv susequent examination. Upon the receipt of the certificate by the applicant from the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination, the applicant shall, upon the presentation thereof to the clerk of the county in which he resides, receive from the county clerk a license to practice medicine, surgery and obstetrics within the State of Indiana. The person receiving such license shall pay to the county clerk fifty cents ($0.30) as his fee for issuing and recording such license as hereinafter provided. In case of change of residence from one county to another within this State, tho holder of a physician's license shall obtain a new license in the county where he proposes to reside by filing with the county clerk the lice-nse obtained by him In the county in which he last resided. In the same manner as provided for on the presentation of his certificate from tho State Board of Medical Registration and Examination, and the clerk shall issue him a new license. Sec, 3. It shall be the duty of the clerk of tho county in which an applicant resides to issue to the person presenting such certificate, as hereinbefore provided for. a license under his official seal in the following form: State of Indiana. County of ss: I, . clerk of the Circuit Court of count v. in the State of Indiana, do herebv certify that has complied with the laws of the State of Indiana relating to the practice of medicine, surgery and obstetrics in the county and State aforesaid. Witness mv hand and seal of said court this day of ISO Clerk. The county clerk shall enter of record the name, age, place and birth, address, school or system of medicine to which said applicant lelongs. and the person so registering shall subscribe to and verify by oath before such clerk an affidavit concerning such facts, which, if willfully false, shall subject the affiant to conviction for perjurv. The county clerk shall furnish, annually, on the first day of January, to tho State Board of Medical Registration and Examination, upon blanks furnished by said board, a duplicate list of all certificates received and licenses Issued by him during the preceding vear, and shall include therein the d tte of issue of said license, and the name, age and residence of the person receiving th same. Sec. 4. Within thirty days after this law goes into effect, it shall be the duty of the Governor of the State of Indiana to appoint a State Board of Medical Registration and Examination, composed of five (3) members, who shall serve, two for one year, one for two years, one for three years and one for four years; and their successors for a term of four years each. No school or system of medicine shall have a majority representation on such board. Said board shall bo nonpartisan, and not more than three shall be members of any one political party. The Governor shall select members of said Board of Medical Registration and Examination from reputable physicians in this State who are graduates of any college of medicine of gomi repute: Provided. That no professor or teacher in .a medical college shall be appointed as a member of such board. Should a vacancy occur in said loard by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, then it shall be the duty of the Governor to till the. vacancy from the list of names furnished by the State Association entitled to such representation. The Governor shall have power to remove any member of said board for Incompetency, gross immorality, for any abuse of his official power, or for other good cause, and may iill any vacancy thus occasioned by appointment. Any person appointed to till anv vacancy on such board, whether occasioned bv death, resignation, removal or otherwise, shall hold for the unexpired term of the member whose place he is appointed to fill. Sec. It shall bo the duty of the members of the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination to meet in the citv of Indianapolis within thirty days after their appointment, and organize by the election of a president, secretary and treasurer, who shall serve until the second Tuesday In January following, and their successors shall be elected on the second Tuesday in January annually thereafter. The said Imard shall hold regular meetings on the secoml Tuesday in January. April. July and October of each year, and as often In addition as may be necessary for the transaction of such business as may properly come before It under the provisions of this act. and shall have power to make all necessary rules and regulations for the transaction of its business. For their , services ine. mernnrH uaii receive nv uin of ten dollars ($10) per day, and their traveling expenses necessarily incurred, in

attendance upon such meetings. It shall b the duty of Eaid board to keep a record of all applications for certificates, and such record shall contain all the facts set forth in such applications, including the action of the board thereon, and the said board may employ a clerk, and fix his salary at not more than on thousand dollars (ll.fr)0) per annum. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of said board to pay quarterly all moneys received by the board to the treasurer of the state, which moneys shall be credited to a separate and permanent fund for medical registration and examination, which is hereby created. The moneys so paid to the treasurer of etatt shall remain and be a separate and permanent fund for the maintenance of tho said Hoard of ReKistration and Examination. The said board shall, by its president and secretary, from time to time, certify to the auditor of state, the necessary expenses incurred by the said board, including the salaries and per diem of the members, and the auditor shall issue his warrant for the same, which shall be paid out of the fund so established for the maintenance of said board: Provided, That on Oct. 31 of each year after the taking effect of this act. all money on hand and in tho kind above created shall be converted into the general fund of the State: And provided further. That no order shall bo drawn by any state ollicial on any fund other than the above named fund for any salaries, printing or stationery, or other expenses incident to the administration of this act. The treasurer and secretary of said board shall each give bond in the sum of ton thousand dollars ($10.0tn)) with sureties to be approved by the Governor, which bonds shall be filed with the auditor of state. The members cf the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination are authorized to administer oaths in matters relating to the discharge of their official duties. The State Board of Registration and Examination Is charged with the duty of enforcing this act. and it shall be' the duty of the presecuting attorney, upon the complaint of the board, to prosecute any violation of this act. The State Hoard of Medical Registration and Examination shall from time to time establish and record in a record, kept by them for that purpose, a schedule of the minimum requirements which must be complied with by applicants for examination for license to practice medicine, surgery and obstetrics, before they shall be entitled to receive such license. The said board shall also, in like manner, establish and cause to be recorded in such retard .a schedule of the minimum requirements and rules for the recognition of medical colleges, so as to keep these requirements up to the average standard of medical education in other States. After the year lSD" no change shall be made in such schedules of requirements in any year, after the month of January' of such year, nor shall any change be made tt have any retroactive effect, or that shall affect students theretofore matriculated. Such record shall at all times be open to examination by the public, and the said schedules of requirements, after they have been established and retarded, and all changes made therein, shall be printer! in circular form, and mailed to all medical colleges in the State, and shall also be furnished to any person upon application. Said board shall not. in the establishment of the aforesaid schedules of requirements, discriminate for or against any school or system of medicine, nor shall it prescribe what system or systems or schools of medicine shall be taught in any of the colleges, universities or other educational institutions of the State. It shall have power to make and establish all necessary rules and regulations of tho State. It shall have power to make and establisbyall necessary rules and regulations for reciprocal recognition of certificates issued by Other States, and to itfvvont unjust and arbitrary exclusions by other States of graduates in medicine from this Stalk who have filled its requirements. When an application for a certificate is made, and a diploma submitted, as herein provided, it shall le the duty of the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination to determine, upon the evidence presented, whether such diploma rightfully belongs to and was issued to the person making application for a certificate, and whether the medical collego that Issued the diploma maintains a standard of medical education, conforming to that fixed by the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination, and whether the application otherwise complies with the rules of the lxard. If thes facts are shown by competent evidence, It shall be the duty of the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination to issue a certificate, signed by its president and secretary, and under its official seal, stating that tho person applying for such certificate and possessing such diploma is entitled to a license to practice medicine, surgery and obstetrics in the State of Indiana. The State Board of Medical Registration and Examination shall have the right to review the evidence upon which a license has been obtained, and if it shall be found that a license has been obtalnenl by fraud or misrepresentation, the board may revoke such license. The board may refuse to grant a certificate to any person guilty of felony or gross Immorality, or addicted to the liquor or drug habit to such a degree as to render him unfit to prdctlce medicine or surgery, and may, after notice and hearing, revoke a certificate for like cause. An appeal may be taken from the action of the loard refusing to grant or revoking a certificate for such cause, to the Governor and attorney general, and the decision of such officers, either affirming or overruling the action of the state board shall be found. If any person holding a license under the provisions of this act shall be guilty of any of the above enumerated acts, or shall become an itinerant physician, the license of such person may be revoked by the board, upon a finding and judgment as hereinafter provided that the holder has been guilty of any of the above enumerated acts. A specific written charge, verified by affidavit, must be presented to the board, making definite and specific charges of such offense against the holder of such license. It shall thereupon be the duty of the board to refer such verified charge to the Circuit Court of the county in which the holder of such license resides. The clerk of such court shall thereupon docket the same as a case pending in said court. The said verified eiiarge shall be treated a3 a complaint, and summons shall issue thereon to the accused, as in ordinary civil cases. The accused may appear and plead to said charge and issues may be formed thereon, as In civil cases, which shall thereupon be tried by the judge of said Circuit Court. It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney of said court to

kappear in such causes and represent the

board. The only finding and judgment in such cases shrill be guilty or not guilty as to each charge. The judgment of the court upon such charges shall be at once certified to the board by the clerk of said court. If the finding of the court is "guilty" as to any one of said charges, said board may thereupon make an order revoking such license. If judgment of "guilty'' Is awarded in such case, the costs of such proceeding Shall be recovered of the accused and a fee of $10 shall be taxed therein in favor of the prosecuting attorney. Sec. 6. All persons practicing midwifery In this State, and who have practiced it for ten years last preceding the passage of this act. and desiring to continue the same, shall, within ninety days thereafter. niaKe application to the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination by submitting an affidavit, fully attested, giving the name, age, residence, the length of time during which and the place or places at whicii the applicant has been engaged in such practice, and the special education, if any, which the applicant has received for such practice. Such application shall be accompanied hy the affidavits of two freeholders, dully attested, that tho applicant is known to them as the person applying for a certificate to practice midwifery, and that such applicant has been engaged in the active practice of midwifery, giving the location or locations of such practice for at least ten years previous to the passage of this act. and on an application and the payment of 1 the State Hoard of Medical Registration and Examination shall Issue to the applicant a certificate, which shall, when presented to the county clerk, entitle the holder to a license to practice midwifery in this State. Ail persons th'slring to enter upon the practice of midwifery in this State after this law goes into ffect shall prese-nt to the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination their diplomas, duly attested, and procure, from an obstetrical school of such standing as shall be re-cognized and determined by the board; or shall submit to examination in midwifery as the board shall require, and pay a fee of $3. Such evidence of qualification being satisfactory to the board. It shall Issue a certificate entitling the holder to a license from the clerk of the county in which the applicant resides, which license shall entitle the holder to practice midwifery in this State. The license thus issued shall conform to all retirements of registration imposed upon physicians' licenses in Section 2 of this act. and shall be subject to revocation for the same causes as provided in Section 3 in case of licenses to physicians. Provided, however, that this act shall not apply to any person practicing medicine, surgery or midwifery under the laws of this State as they now exist. Sec. 7. Nothing in this act shffi be so cemstrued as to discriminate against any school or system of medicine-, or to prohibit gratuitous services in cases of emergency, or to the administration of family remedies. This act shall not apply to any commissioned officer of the United States army or navy or marine hospital service in the discharge of his official duties; nor to any physician or surgeon who is legally qualified to practice In the St.if or Territory in which he resides when in actual consultation with a leaal practitioner of this State; nor to any physician or surge-on residing on the border of a neighboring State and duly authorized to practice under the laws thereof, whosn practice extends Into the limits of this State, provided that such practitioner erhall not open an office or appoint- a place to meet patients or receive calls within the limit or thi.H State. Tfcl act shlt not be construed to prevent medical students from

practicing medicine and surgery under tha immediate and direct supervision of a licensed physician, nor shall it apply to legally qualified tler.tlsts when e neaped in tho exclusive practice of dentistry, nor to any optician who shall hereafter engage in tho practice of optometry This law shall not be construed to apply to nonltinerant opticians engaged in the practice of optometry in this State at the time and prior to tho passage of this act. Sec. S. To open an office for cuch purposes or te announce to the public in any way a readiness to practice medicine in any county of the State, or to prescribe for. or to frlve surprical assistance to those suffering from disease, injury or deformity, shall be to engage in the practice of medicine within the meaning of this act. PENALTY. Sec. 9. Any person who shall practice medicine, surgery or obstetrics in this StatA without having a license duly Is.-ued a hereinbefore provided, shall bo deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be lined not less than nor more than J200. Sec. 10. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed and also an act entitletl an act resul.iting the practice of medicine, surgery and olstctrics, providing for the issuing of license to practice, defining certain misdemeanors and providing penalties, approved April 11. Ivm, and all amendment thereto be and the same are hereby repealed. GEXEIIAL MEDICAL III LI.

How the riiynlctuiin of the City View It Warmly Defended hy tine. The general medical Mil. which will be a special order In the Senate this morning, has been characterized by its opponents a a bill for a doctor's trust, and many other similar titles have been given it. That It in supported by all physicians of the State, regardless of their school, h.'.s gone a long; way toward paining for It favorable recognition. By the term physician Is meant those who have really studied medicine and gained a knowledge of the science sufficiently to enable them to practice medicine intelligently, ami not those who have secured diplomas merely to the end that they may attach M. D. to their signature. This latter class is not small, and Is getting larger every year through the medium of certain so-called schools of medicine, which simply agree to sell a diploma for a certain amount of money, regardless of the qualifications of the recipient. It is such a school as lhat that has maintained a strong lobby In this city against the bill. This school lias its headquarters in Chicago. At the present time Indiana is about the only State near Chicago that will permit a stueient to practice meehcine until lie has thoroughly qualified himself for the work, thus this State is the greatest field fed the new recruits for this co:U-'. this eolege in its literatuic attacks all of wh.u it terms the "monopoly" :Jll-gis on aciount f their rule that students must attend toIUge n certain uiuber t ye. .is t graduate, and claims that this is done for ihe put i est of enriching the nui controlling thef v schools. Although pur post ly not stated by this college, it is a fact that there is not a single college hohUng membership in the Association of Ai.r.rican Medical Colleges that makes a profit tor yny one. In fact, in almost every ease the pnyslclans wiio lalor so hard to instruct the students elo this work as a work of science tor th benefit of science and receive absolutely nothing for their time and labor. The members of the acuity have no salaries, and the only persons v.-ho receive money for their work are the employes of the Institutions, such as clerks and janitors. But it Is different with such colleges as the Chicago institution, where the sole object is to get the money of the student for the profit sldo of the ledger. It is, therefore, more profitable to grant a diploma to a student who never attends the college than to have him hanging around the school, where he will be in the way. In a little pamphlet sent out by the college me-ntioned particular stress is laid on the fact that It is not necessary for a stueient to attend the school. It says: "Stripped of mystery and deception, the stuly and practice of medicine can be carried to a success In every intelligent home. Nature cure will lead the way to certain success." U-It is constantly impressed upon the stu dent s mind that if he will send the necessary amount of money and receive by mail the lectures sent out he can study them over and graduate. The time "is not stated, and great stress Is laid upon this fact, too. It Is argued that there is no reason why a bright student should not be allowed to graduate as soon as his knowledge will permit,' and the idea is constantly uppermost that the particular student who is reading the little book Is that bright student, and can soon be a full fleeiged M. D. "Necessary instructions, lectures and examination questions sent by mail to students who are unable to attend." is a thought that is constantly forced upon the reader of the pamphlet. Then, again, it is stated that the fees for the course and graduation for students who study at home Is only $75. This is very attractive to many people who do not know any better than to believe that a sheepskin granting the authority to add M. D. to the name is all that is necessary to make a physician of a man. C. D. Drumheller, professor of anatomy and physiology in this Chicago college, has been in Indianapolis almost all the time since the beginning of the session of tlin Legislature, working1 hard to defeat the general medical bill. There Is not a physician connected with any of the American Association colleges who could afford to go to Illinois to work against a similar bill, for they get no pay er profit from their college work, and would have to pay their expenses from their own private funds. Besides this, they could not afford to leave their practice, for they ore all men who have large practices to look after. Dr. W. E. Jeffries, in speaking of the Mil last night, and of the arguments used against It, said: "One of th hardest worked arguments against this bill is that it will prevent a man from choosing a man of his choice to attend him In sickness, but will compel him to employ some on? whom he does no want. Has any cne ever objected because he cannot employ a teamster to defenei him In court? Of course not. He wants a lawyer, and one he knows to be competent. How many cities or States in this country will employ a teacher without an examination? There has recently been a great fight In this State against the proposition to grant life licenses to graduates of certain colleges who desire to teach. Thf diploma will not permit a person to tech the little children, but examinations over and over again are requireeL How much more necessary would it seem to Ih- that a physician, who has life itself in his hands, should be compelled to show his fitne ss before he is allowed to practice? "When thl matter is sifted to the Inittom It will be found that the whole tight is money against scle-ne'e arid real philanthropy, for I cannot place the sacrifice that many physicians make in giving their time to instruct the young students on any other plane than simple philanthropy. This bill simply requires that a man shall pass an examination showing that be is competent to practice, medicine before he can get a license to elo so. It eloes not require that h! shall follow the teachings of any one school, or that he shall use or c-.eb.ew poisons crany other kinds of drugs, but that h shall know the human system and know the, use of the many elrugs. what their e-ffee-t is and how they are to be administered. They can then practice on the theory of '.-imilla similibus curantur' or they can refuse to give pejisons or use the allopathic system of using anything the case may call for, the one all-important thing being that thy must know these things and know the human system, "It is ilillculous for any man to talk alout there being an Injustice tlone in requiring students te attend a college for four years if they know nothing about medicine when they enter, or three years If they can show suitable qualification to secure a creellt of one year. Medicine is like law In that it cannot be absorbed by simply reading a text-look. It takes actual experience in seeing and treating cases in conjunction with an experienced physician to give tho knowledge that will mnke a man successful In practice It not only takes that, but it requires that a student be governed by certain rules f study that will compe-l him to study many things that may appear of little or no value, but which, take n together, form the groundwork for hi- m- lical education. These are the things in which the man who studies in an ot'.ice without having certain requirements that must be complied with is always deficient. Any person forty years of ape who has taken a course In any college literary or technical will bear me out In this statement." SPECIAL ORDERS IX THE SEX ATE. Getierul Medical it ml Anti-Trut Hills to I5e C'onnlderrd To-Dhj. On motion of Senator Hawkins a couple of measures In which her is censi lerable interest wem made special order for today. One Is tho general medical bill, which has already pac&d the House. It is to come up at 11 o'clock this n :c ruing and will be rubstitutcd for th' Senate bill. Senatop Hawkins hopes tor Its passage to-day. The other is the Linck atiti-trust bill. Housej Bill lv". It is to be considered a half hour befom the general medical bill. Senator Hawkins moved, after H. IJ. Tdt, repealing the apportionment law of l$i. had lecn read a second time, that It bo made special order for I'-.iS to-diy. His motion prevailed. The bill will be taken up and parsed. It I one of tho caucus m-raurta still undisposed cf.