The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-09-07
OWE, THE people,"


As REPRESENTED ny THE COMMITTEE OF
FIFTEEN--Two MEETINGS YESTERDAY
FACTS ELECTED FROM THE MAYOR AND
OTHERS.
When the three taiors met in Tooley
street and resolved in the name of the peo-
pie of England, they earned kind Of fame
of which they little dreamt at the time.
The circumstance has been used more or
less ever since to illustrtc ridiculous agita-
tons, and We hope it may not hurt any.
body's feelings if we venture to suggest that
the Thursday night meeting and the com
mittec meetings which grew out Of it,
have bordcred on the ridiculous.
Our space this morning will
not admit Of a full report of the sayings and
doings of the two meetings ofthe committee
yesterday, but we state simple truth when
we say that the proceed ngs were aimless al
ways, and absurd often. There were
wrangings in debate, personal illusions,
points of order, suggestions based upon pre-
posterous assumptions of power and more
Of such stuff too tedious to relate. The
mayor appeard before the committee AS II
citizen and chccrfuly answered all ques-
tons. He shielded his marshal from blame
in the Batesyilc affair, and shifted it to the
telegraph operator at Columbus and 10
citizens who failed to give the alarm. All his
other testimony about the workings Of the
board of health revealed nothing new. The
Batosville is gone, and if she has done any
harm it is beyond reparation. It's useless
to repeat here any Of the rumors which
arose from her landing The responsibility
for the negligence, however, was fixed by
lndisputable cv dence. After a great deal
of unnecessary discussion the following re-
port was agreed upon, TO be submitted to
mass meeting tonight:
|. That this committee appointed by the
citizens meeting held on the 9Th inst, do
hereby concur in the quarantine rules and
regulations recently adopted by the board
OF health of this city. and tender To It's OIL
GERS the hearty support of our citizen, in
strictly enforcing and carrying out said
regulations
3 That we severely condemn the negli-
gence of the officers on quarantine duty on
yesterday in allowing the steamer Bates
Vile TO land at our wharf, without first
complying with the rules, as
orr of the grosscst negligence
OF duty, and respectfully demand Of the
board Of health an investigation Of the
same.
g. And it has also become known TO the
citizens, that by the neglect Of the police
and patrol .orccs steamboats, have been
permitted to land their passengers coming
from infected districts, at places above the
city, and that said passengers make their
way into the city unmolc,ted, all Of which
this committee charges AS a neglect Of
duty in not carrying ont the
quarantine regulations. and to
the enlargement OF the dreadful scourgc
yellow fever entering our homes.
t. 1t has also come to the notice of the
citizens that the police are instructed to take
all refugees or straglers that they arrest to
the office Of the Mayor, thereby cndangcr-
Ing our citizens to the exposure Of the fever,
by plrading said parties through or streets,
contrary to the spirit and intention Of the
quarantine.
All of which we ask the board to in
vcstigatc and make amends when needed;
and in order to further assist in protect
ing the city from the disease which is
proving so destructive to life in many Of
the largest cities OF the south, we especial
ly request the city counci TO authorize the
appointment OF Il sufficient number Of
special police. to guard against the APP
proach Of the disease as provided by section
10, chapter ., Rev ord.