say they are opposed to a scheme of this kind. It is not opposition to higher medical education. I move to amend the report by striking out those portions of it I have named under the caption of "The State and Medical Schoils." The vital statistics bill, which has failed before former legislatures, has passed the senate by a substantial majority, and is now awaiting consideration by the house. Senate Bill No. 481, introduced by Senator Hurburgh, prohibiting advertising in the newspapers to cure sexual diseases, and a very worthy measure, was passed almost unanimously by the senate. It has not been acted on in the lower branch of the general assembly. House Bill No. 332, introduced by Representative Medill McCormick, prohibiting splitting of fees by physicians and midwives, was killed in the judiciary committee to which it was referred. Senate Bill No. 3, entitled an act to provide for the treatment of public intoxication and inebriety; establishing hospital and industrial colony, introduced by Senator Beall, was laid on the table. Senate Bill No. 18, introduced by Senator Glackin, providing a sanatorium for those afflicted with tuberculosis, is still in the committee to which it was referred. Dr. A. C. Cotton: The matter presented by my dear friend, Dr. Lewis, has reference to an alleged premeditated or accomplished purchase of some property in Chicago for university purposes. I think it is absolutely foreign to the matter that is presented to us in the report of the Committee on Medical Education. The question, as I understand it, is, Shall the State Medical Society through its council go on record as favoring the request of the trustees of the University of Illinois for an appropriation for a medical department? Unless I am misinformed, the Trustees are unanimous in this request of the Legislature for a moderate appropriation of $100,000 to build, to promote the department of medicine which that university has established. I believe that there is but very little argument necessary for us to decide whether we are for or against a medical department in the University of Illinois. Any details merely obscure the main question. Surely, it is not for us to decide. whether the Trustees of that university are to buy property in this county or that county or this city; whether they are to buy a site or to buy a building or to erect a building. It is their judiciary committee of the house, no one appeared to business to decide those questions. The main question before us is, Are we in favor of sustaining the medical department of the State University? (A voice: We are.) As there was no further discussion, the president put the motion to adopt the report and declared it carried unanimously. Dr. L. C. Taylor of Springfield, Chairman, read the report of the Committee on Medical Legislation, as follows: REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MEDICAL The prolonged delay in effecting an organization of the lower branch of the general assembly, postponed the actual work of the legislature about one month later than has been the custom. Consequently, many of the bills that ordinarily would have been disposed of before our annual meeting are yet on the calendar of either the house or the senate. The report of your Committee on Medical Legislation must, therefore, necessarily comprise only the situation as it exists at the present time. Medical bills of far greater number have been introduced than in any session of recent years. Some of them have decided merit; others are obnoxious and still others find the medical profession hopelessly divided among themselves as to their merits. Senate Bill No. 132, introduced by Senator O'Connor, entitled an act in relation to the state colony for It is on epileptics, passed the senate on April 29. order of the first reading in the house. Senate Bill No. 245, an act to prevent the procreation of habitual criminals, idiots, feeble-minded and imbeciles, introduced by Senator Womack, is on the order of second reading in the senate. Senate Bill No. 368, the same as House Bill No. 467, an act to promote the science and art and regulate the practice of surgery, is pending in both houses. This bill provides for a special license to practice surgery. The attention of your committee was not called to this measure and when it came up for hearing before the advocate its passage. The hearing was accordingly postponed until a later date. The bill making appropriation for the medical department of the University of Illinois is a part of the general appropriation bill and will come up for consideration among other appropriations under this measure. House Bill No. 428, is an act to prohibit physicians and surgeons from disclosing information acquired from patients in the course of practice. House bill No. 229, introduced by Representative Gorman, entitled, an act to regulate the practice of osteopathy in the state of Illinois, is a bill which, if passed, would practically confer on all osteopaths now in practice and those yet to be licensed the right to practice medicine and surgery in all their branches. I received favorable consideration by the judiciary committee. The bill is now on the order of second reading in the house. Neither it nor the optometry bill, which also received favorable report from the committee, has been introduced in the senate. When the present committee on medical legislation was organized, in order to promote a more thorough cooperation among the members of the medical profession, we adopted the plan of making each county medical society to name one or more of its members to act as auxiliary to the state committee. Nearly all of the county societies complied with the request. Many of them have shown an active interest and have rendered valuable assistance in legislative work. Some have shown a lack of interest almost approaching con indifference. It should require no argument to convince anyone familiar with the subject that the home society is the main source of power in legislative matters. The legislators are naturally more siderate of the wishes of their constituents than of the views of those approaching them in the capacity of lobbyists. Your committee, therefore, in view of this fact, would urge on the members of the House of Delegates to bring this subject to the notice of their respective societies in order that their influence may be felt in the work which we wish to accomplish. Bills introduced in the legislature are printed for the use of the members and it is only through courtesy that we are enabled to secure a few copies for distribution and it is in cases where your assistance is urgent that a synopsis of the bills is sent throughout the state. cannot, will not impugn the integrity or well meaning of any party, clique or crowd, for on both sides I see men of integrity, men of ability, men of genius and men of good intention. It is simply this: When will the profession teach their heads to take counsel of their hearts? We may differ in things of the mind and be lost in the smoke and confusion of vituperation and contention, but at heart all men are agreed that sympathy is deeper than logic. When will we have the courage to say the nice things to the living that we would say to or of the dead, and cast aside the arrogance and pride of selfestimation. "Oh, why should the spirit of mortal Dr. W. O. Krohn, Chicago: I move the adop- be proud," when we consider the small curve tion of this excellent report. Motion seconded and carried. Dr. A. Augustus O'Neill, Chicago: I rise to a question of privilege. The President: State it. Dr. O'Neill: It is business-the business of the dead, the dead now conspicuous by his bodily absence; while through this assemblage, when Dr. Taylor reported legislative progress at Springfield, ran the chill remembrance of him whose close association with these matters down the years seemed to bring into our midst his phantom presence. Yet a voice calls out "Go on with the business!" Business indeed, serious business, the business of honoring the remembrance of the dead, which no grave can estrange and death but potentialize. His memory shines forth through the gloom and dust of the bitterness and dissension of mistaken attacks. I rise not simply to praise him and take the time of this convention in this impromptu and useless panegyric. Well do I know the uselessness and impotence of posthumous praise, for no words of praise or blame can soothe or sear the dull, cold ear of death. He is beyond that now, and no word of ours can reach his silent station of rest. My words are not to him. Ah! could he have survived to be with us to-day; could he have been with us yesterday; could he have been present the evening before last and heard what we have heard, many a weight of sorrow would have been lifted from his heart and lines of disappointment erased from his brow. But not this, not even for this do I address you, but to call attention to the self-inflicted wound from which the medical profession is writhing in pain; wounds made by the hand of ambition, the hand. of avarice and ofttimes the hand of hypocrisy. Do not misunderstand me. I do not intend, I do not intend, of the human mind confined to such narrow limits and human achievements. The best of what we do and are- This time last year Dr. Egan was with us working and striving to reach the same goal, although perhaps traveling by different roads, following the light he had-the light we had. His task is done, but the work goes on-the eternal mission the spirit of the profession, each in our turn playing our part and as with him, Await alike the inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Awake then and heal the self-inflicted wounds of our profession, casting aside the bitterness and malignity with which we so frequently view each others' work and strive to travel the road toward Utopia, undismayed by the fact that the projector of that beautiful dream, Sir Thomas Moore, was afterwards hanged, disemboweled and quartered. 'Twas ever thus the graves of martyrs are the milestones on the road to the ideal. Establish your medical democracy, a democracy of the heart's desire of the whole profession-a democracy resident in every man's bosom, warmed by human sympathies which have been throbbing and struggling in the breast of man in every age and will continue to throb till this world hangs dead in the heavens. Dr. Carl E. Black, Jacksonville, Chairman of the Committee on, Revision of the Constitution and By-Laws, presented the following report: The Committee on Revision of the Constitution and By-Laws brings in this tentative report with a proviso that it is not satisfactory to any member of the committee, but is introduced solely to have it formally before the House of Delegates, and furthermore, the committee rec ommends that a new committee be appointed with instructions to report at a special meeting to be held before the first regular meeting of the House of Delegates in 1914. CARL E. BLACK, K. A. ZURAWSKI. The Constitution and By-Laws submitted by the Committee are as follows: CONSTITUTION ARTICLE I.-NAME The name and title of this organization shall be the Illinois State Medical Society. ARTICLE II.-PURPOSES OF THIS SOCIETY ARTICLE V.-HOUSE OF DELEGATES Section 1. The House of Delegates shall consist of (a) delegates elected by the component societies; (b) the councilors, and (c) ex-officio, the President and Secretary of this Society, the retiring President of this Society, who shall be a member for two years, and the chairmen of its standing committees. It shall be the legislative body of this Society, and shall conduct all business, except such as is otherwise provided for by the Constitution and By-Laws. All recommendations of the House of Delegates dealing with the acquisition or disposal of property of any kind, or with the appropriation or expenditure of funds in any way, must be approved by the Council before the same shall become effective. ARTICLE VI.-COUNCIL Section 1. The Board of Trustees, or, as in this Constitution and By-Laws designated, the Council, shall consist of ten (10) councilors, elected by the House of Delegates, and the President and Secretary, ex-officio. Besides its duties mentioned in the By-Laws, it shall have charge of and control all the property of this Society of whatsoever nature, and of all funds from whatsoever source. See 2 No person shall expend, or use for any pur Pod Monelonging to the Society without the approval of the Council. Section 1. The purposes of this Society shall be to federate and bring into one compact organization the entire medical profession of the State of Illinois, and to unite with similar societies of other states to form the American Medical Association, and especially to extend medical knowledge and advance medical science; to elevate the standard of medical education, and to secure the enactment and enforcement of just medicaF EB laws; to promote friendly intercourse among physicians; to guard and foster the material interests of its mem bers, and to protect them against imposition; and to enlighten and direct public opinion in regard to the great problems of state medicine, so that the profession shall become more capable and honorable within itself and more useful to the public in the prevention and cure of disease and in prolonging and adding comfort to life; and to hold one or more sessions annually at which the above objects and purposes can be discussed and promoted. ARTICLE III.-COMPONENT SOCIETIES Section 1. Component societies shall consist of those county or local medical societies which hold charters from this Society. ARTICLE IV.-COMPOSITION OF THE SOCIETY Section 1. This Society shall consist of members, life members, honorary members and guests. Sec. 2. Members. The members of this Society shall be the members in good standing of the component societies. Sec. 3. Life members shall consist of those members who have already been elected life members of this Society. Sec. 4. Honorary members shall consist of those physicians of other states, territories, island possessions or foreign countries who have risen to prominence in the profession of medicine, who may be elected by a nine-tenths vote of the members of the House of Delegates present at any annual meeting. Sec. 5. Guests. Any distinguished physician not a resident of this state may become a guest during any annual session on invitation of the officers of this Association, and shall be accorded the privilege of participating in all of the scientific work for that session. Sec. 3. All acts of the House of Delegates involving enditure, appropriation or use in any manner of money or the acquisition or disposal in any manner LIBRARby the Council before the same shall beof property of any kind belonging to the Society, must come effective. Sec. 4. The Council shall formulate rules governing the expenditure of money to meet the necessary running expenses and fixed charges of the Society, as well as such other rules governing its actions as it may deem necessary or desirable. Six members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. ARTICLE VII.-SECTIONS AND DISTRICT SOCIETIES The House of Delegates may provide for a division of the scientific work of the Society into appropriate sections, and for the organization of such councilor district societies as will promote the best interests of the profession, such societies to be composed exclusively of members of component county societies. ARTICLE VIII.-SESSIONS AND MEETINGS Section 1. The Society shall hold an annual session, during which there shall be held daily general meetings, which shall be open to all registered members. Sec. 2. The time and place of holding such annual session shall be fixed by the House of Delegates. ARTICLE IX.-OFFICERS Section 1. The officers of this Society shall be a President, a First Vice-President, a Second Vice-President, a President-Elect, a Secretary, a Treasurer and as many councilors as may be determined by the House of Delegates. Sec. 2. The President-Elect, Vice-Presidents, Secretary and Treasurer shall be elected annually by the House of Delegates, to serve for a term of one year, and the President-Elect shall enter on the duties of his office as President for one year from the time of his election. Sec. 3. The councilors shall be elected by the House of Delegates from lists of nominees presented by a majority of the delegates from the district which the councilor is to represent. Every councilor shall be elected to serve for three years, excepting at the election in 1913, when one additional councilor shall be elected to serve for three years. All officers shall serve until their successors are elected and installed. ARTICLE X.-FUNDS AND EXPENSES Sction 1. Funds shall be raised by an equal per capita assessment on each component society. The amount of the assessment shall be fixed by the House of Delegates, and all annual assessments of each component society are due on the first day of January of each year in advance. Funds may also be raised by voluntary contributions from the Society's publications, and in any other manner approved by the House of Delegates. ARTICLE XI.-REFERENDUM Section 1. A general meeting of the Society may, by a two-thirds vote of the members present, order a general referendum on any question pending before the House of Delegates, and when so ordered the House of Delegates shall submit such question to the members of the Society, who may vote by mail or in person, and, if the members voting shall comprise a majority of all the members of the Society, a majority of such vote shall determine the question and be binding on the House of Delegates. Sec. 2. The House of Delegates may, by a two-thirds vote of its own members, submit any question before it to a general referendum, as provided in the preceding section, and the result shall be binding on the House of Delegates. ARTICLE XII.-THE SEAL The Society shall have a common seal, with power to break, change or renew the same at pleasure. ARTICLE XIII.-AMENDMENTS The House of Delegates may amend any article of this Constitution by a two-thirds vote of the delegates present at any annual session, provided that such amendment shall not be acted on until the day following that on which it was introduced. BY-LAWS CHAPTER I.-MEMBERSHIP Section 1. The name of a physician on the properly certified roster of members of a component society, which has paid its annual assessment as provided in these By-Laws, shall be prima facie evidence of membership in this Society, and all the rights and privileges pertaining thereto. Sec. 2. Any person who is under sentence of suspension or expulsion from a component society, or whose name has been dropped from its roll of members, shall not be entitled to any of the rights or benefits of this Society, nor shall he be permitted to take part in any of its proceedings until he has been relieved of such disability. Sec. 3. Each member in attendance at the annual session shall enter his name on the registration book, indicating the component society of which he is a member. When his right to membership has been verified, by reference to the roster of his society, he shall receive a badge, which shall be evidence of his right to all the privileges of membership at that session. No member shall take part in any of the proceedings of an annual session until he has complied with the provisions of this section. CHAPTER II.-ANNUAL AND SPECIAL SESSIONS OF THE SOCIETY Section 1. The annual session shall be held at such time and place as has been fixed at the preceding annual session by the House of Delegates; provided, however, that the time and place of the session may be changed by the President with the unanimous consent of the Council (Board of Trustees) at any time two months prior to the time selected for the annual session. Sec. 2. Special meetings of either the Society or the House of Delegates shall be called by the President on petition of twenty delegates or fifty members. CHAPTER III.-GENERAL MEETINGS Section 1. All registered members may attend and participate in the proceedings and discussions of the general meetings and of the sections. The general meetings shall be presided over by the President or by one of the Vice-Presidents, and before them shall be delivered the address of the President and the orations. Sec. 2. The general meeting may recommend to the House of Delegates the appointment of committees or commissions for scientific investigation of special interest and importance to the profession and public. CHAPTER IV.-SECTIONS Section 1. For the transaction of scientific business, there shall be one or more sections, as may be determined from year to year by the Committee on Scientific Work. Sec. 2. The scientific work shall include the practice of medicine, medical specialties, materia medica and therapeutics, etiology, pathology, hygiene, state medicine, medical jurisprudence, surgery, surgical specialties and obstetrics. Sec. 3. The general section of each section, as the case may be, shall elect its own chairman and secretary. The section officers for scientific work shall be elected for two years, and the chairman and secretary of such sections shall go out of office on alternate years. Sec. 4. The Committee on Program shall have power to place any paper in its proper section when in its discretion it has been reported in the wrong section. Sec. 5. No paper by a member shall be listed on the program unless its author's membership has been certified to the Secretary before March 20, prior to the date of the annual meeting. Sec. 6. No paper shall be read before the Society unless the author be present, unless his absence be due to some unavoidable circumstance, when the members of the section shall decide by vote whether the paper may be read by proxy. A paper read by proxy may be referred to the Committee on Publication. Sec. 7. No paper shall be reported to the Committee on Publication until it has been placed in the hands of the Secretary, and the Secretary shall not return any paper accepted by the Society without the consent of the Society, and then he shall take a receipt for same. Sec. 8. No paper shall be received by or read before this Society that has been presented to any other society, except a component unit of this Society, or that has been offered for publication in any journal. In the case of any paper accepted by the Society, the author is supposed to have invested in the Society all right of ownership until after its publication in the official JOURNAL of this Society. CHAPTER V.-HOUSE OF DELEGATES Section 1. The House of Delegates shall meet annually at the time and place of the annual session of the Society, and shall fix its hours of meeting so that they shall conflict as little as possible with the general meetings of the Society. But if the interest of the Society and profession require, the House of Delegates may meet in advance of the annual session. Sec. 2. Every component society shall be entitled to send to the House of Delegates each year one delegate for every one hundred members, and one for every major fraction thereof; but every component society which has made its annual report and paid its assessments as provided for in this Constitution and By-Laws shall be entitled to one delegate. Sec. 3. Fifty per cent. of the delegates registered for the annual meeting shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Sec. 4. It shall, through its officers, Council and otherwise, give diligent attention to and foster the scientific work and spirit of the Society, and shall constantly study and strive to make each annual session a stepping stone to future ones of higher interest. Sec. 5. It shall consider and advise as to the material interests of the profession, and of the public in those important matters wherein it is dependent on the profession, and shall use its influence to secure and enforce all proper medical and public-health legislation, and to diffuse popular information in relation thereto. Sec. 6. It shall make careful inquiry into the condition of the profession in each county in the state, and shall have authority to adopt such methods as may be deemed most efficient for building up and increasing the interest in such county societies as already exist, and for organizing the profession in counties where societies do not exist. It shall espe cially and systematically endeavor to promote friendly intercourse among physicians of the same locality, and shall continue these efforts until every physician in every county of the state who is or can be made reputable has been brought under medical society influence. Sec. 7. It shall elect representatives to the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association in accordance with the Constitution and By-Laws of that body. Sec. 8. It shall divide the state into councilor districts, specifying what component societies each district shall include; provided, that in forming such councilor districts the boundary line of the territory occupied by the component society must be followed and the territory of all societies in a district must be contiguous; and provided that it shall organize in each a district medical society, and all members of the component county societies of that district shall be members of such district society; provided that by mutual agreement in writing, filed with the Council by the councilors, for two or more councilor districts, said councilors may form a district society embracing the members of all the component societies within such councilor districts. Sec. 9. It shall have authority to appoint committees for special purposes from among members of the Society who are not members of the House of Delegates. Such committees shall report to the House of Delegates, and may be present and participate in the debate on their reports. Sec. 10. It shall approve all memorials and resolutions issued in the name of the Society before they shall become effective. Sec. 11. In its discretion the House of Delegates may pay the railroad fare (mileage only) of its members who were registered at the first session and were in continuous attendance during the various sessions of the House of Delegates during the annual meeting, as shown by the official minutes of the Secretary; providing the Council reports sufficient funds to justify the expense. CHAPTER VI.-ELECTION OF OFFICERS Section 1. All elections shall be by secret ballot, excepting by unanimous consent of the delegates present, and a majority of the votes cast shall be necessary to elect. Sec. 2. The election of officers shall be the first order of business of the House of Delegates after reading the minutes at the first session on the third day of the meeting of the Society. CHAPTER VII.-DUTIES OF OFFICERS Section 1. The President shall preside at the general meetings of the Society and at the meetings of the House of Delegates. He shall appoint all committees not otherwise provided for; shall deliver an annual address at such time as may be arranged, and shall perform such other duties as custom and parliamentary usage may require. He shall be the real head of the profession of the state during his term of office, and, as far as practicable, shall visit, by appointment, the various sections of the state, and assist the councilors in building up the county societies, and in making their work more practical and useful. Sec. 2. The Vice-President shall assist the President in the discharge of his duties; preside in his absence or when called on to do so. In the event of the President's death, resignation or removal, the Vice-Presidents, in their order, shall succeed him. Sec. 3. The Treasurer shall give bond at the discretion of the Council. He shall demand and receive all funds due the Society, together with the be quests and donations. He shall pay money out of the treasury only on approval of the Council. He shall subject his accounts to such examination as the Council may order. He shall annually render to it an account of his doings and of the state of the funds in his hands, and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him. Sec. 4. The Secretary shall attend the general meetings of the Society, and the meetings of the House of Delegates, and shall keep minutes of their respective proceedings in separate record books. He shall be ex-officio secretary of the Council. He shall be custodian of all record books and papers belonging to the |