The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22
mo Facts i'm the Case.
Senator Harris and Representative
Young YindIeated.

should govern men in their dealings
with one another-mogaa est ueritas ct
preUalebd. Mr.. j. NJ. Hill when he
made his report to the Chamber of
Commerce, of Memphis, on Friday
the 9th inst, in relation to the Nation
al Quarantine Law either forgot this
professed end of logic and the true ele-
rnent of charity or was entirely igno-
rant of them both. His severely I'M
just structure upon the action Of Sena-
tor Harris and Representative Young
are ridiculously false. Your CORE
spondent is familiar with the facts in
the case, and know that the censure
cast upon these two gentlemen by
the Chamber through Mr.. Hill was
uncalled for, iIliberal, unfounded and
malicious. Mr. Hill deliberately
charges the failure of Congress to pass
National Quarantine law directly to
Senator Harris and Congressman
Young of our district. He claims
that they defeated the bill introduced
by each other in the Senate and House
because each wanted to make popular
ity by the adoption of their particular
resolution. This declaration is not
borne out by a simple fact, as the two
bills introduced respectively in the
Senate by Gov. Harris, and in the
House by Col. Young were identical
in every particular. 1t was a bill pre-
pared and agreed upon at joint meet
ing Of the two committees. After
this bill providing for National QUA
antine had been prepared the House
committee met at the instance Of Mr.
Goode, of Virginia, and Mr.. Hooker,
of Mississippi; and against the best
efforts and persistent protest and OPP
position of Col. Young, a majority of
the committee were induced to make
a few trifing changes in the bill, and
the Chairman Col. Young was in
structed to refer it back thus altered
to the House thus by virtue of his
position as Chairman he was bound to
do but in doing so he stated that he
was acting under the direction of the
committee. When the bill was called
up in the House he represented it in
Il few remarks, and was in the act of
calling the previous question when Mr..
Goode arose and made his altogether
too Incorporate and unfortunate
speech, harping upon States Rights and
the resolutions ST 1898 and 1899, de-
claring that the powers of the Federal
government were entirely subordinate
to the rights of the States when pub
lie health was concerned. An out
burst of this nature was not long in
creating an intense opposition from all
parts Of the. House, especially from
the Northern members who differed
so widely with Mr. Goode in his views
of the theory of the Federal govern
ment, and thus the bill was killed.
As will be seen by this statement of
the facts, there was not the slightest
foundation for the unjust censure cast
upon our Senator and Representative.
l am fain to conclude by this action
of the Chamber of Commerce, that
neither courtesy nor fairness held that
RESTRAINT over them that should govern
the deliberation of all bodies of repu-
table gentlemen. 1t is difficult to
conceive how even personal malignity
or political luminosity could have die
tated such a course of action, contain
ing charges so barren of truth, with
out first having due inquiry in the mat
ter. You must know that both Gov.
Harris and Col. Young have been in
cessantly and energeticauy endeavor-
ing to have passed some measure that
will best relieve the people of the
South from the periodical plaques
which they encounter, and in their
desire to do this neither personal feel
ing or selfish motives have actuated
them in their efforts. They have sub
ordinated all to the paramount subject
of the health of the people at large.
Another bill has been prepared Gov
ering as near us possible the wants of
tbs people in this direction, and will
become a law.
1t is a great pity that the exquisite
sensitiveness, and vivid imaginative
faculties of the Chamber have led
them into the egregious error that it
did. Their burst of Indignation was
nearly as great as that shown by Gar
field and Burrows in their cry of
Revolution" and their facility to en-
brace ignoble chimeras particularly
great.
Still I opine that both Senator Har-
ris and Col. Young are not vanquish-
ed yet, they have not entirely lost the
ear of the world, and a great deal will
yet be done by these gentlemen even
in the matter of public health, with
out the aid of the glory and praise of
the Chamber of Commerce and Mr..