The Scheme Is Ended

    A hearing was held last evening before the ways and means committee of the house on Drs. MacLachlan and Knight's bill to establish a homeopathic college in Detroit, a bill, as has been publicly stated, really contemplating removal.

   Members of the homeopathic faculty of the U. of M. having received urgent request from Chairman Lusk and Senator Ward were present.

    A letter was shown from the auditor general stating that "the $25,000 appropriated by Act 257, Public Acts of 1895, for the homeopathic department was covered into the state treasury ending the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897." This disposed effectually of the statement made before the committee by the Detroit gentlemen at a former hearing that the $25,000 was here, and that it would cost the state nothing to establish a new college ; a statement, the falsity of which Chairman Lusk satisfied himself the day following the hearing.

  Letters were presented from Dr. B. F. Bailey, president of the American Institute of Homeopathy, Dr. E. H. Porter, editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy, Dr. O. E. Fisher, editor of the Medical Century and Dr. J. M. Lee, president of the Alumni Association of the Homeopathic department.

    These gentlemen urged opposition to the measure on the grounds that it was the entering wedge for another campaign against the department at Ann Arbor, that extra colleges were not needed in Michigan, and that those favoring such were working for other interests than those of homeopathy. They furthermore urged the upbuilding of the department of the university.

     A large package of letters from physicans through out the state was presented to the committee in opposition to the measure.

    It is quite certain that the bill will never be heard of again.