Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-15

Ter. He said that he had gone TO Mr.. Car
nsle shortly after he became Speaker of
the House, and asked that he place mon
upon the committee who took an interest
III the public health; that Mr., Carlisle
then asked him to put this request in
writing and he would give it due consid-
eratlon. Ihis, he says, he did, making
out list Of about 20 names and inclOsing
them in letter. He disclaimed, however.
any intention of packing the committee,
surgeon General HamiltOn's statement
mad caused some excitement in the COM
Inlttee, and one member, Mr.. Davis, of
massachusetts, stated that he had been
spoken to by Mr.. Caben. and told him
ChaI ne declined to serve, but that the
speaker mad nevertheless appointed him
ana ne would now, If he saw fit, tender
MS resignation. Several other members
OF the committee spoke upon the subject
Dr. Hamilton said that he did not believe
the committee had been packed. but he
wanted to show that the attempt had
been made. He said further, that appro-
prlations for local boards of health
was a corruption fund, and that it was
understood that these boards were to SUD-
port the hands that fed them. DR.. Ham
IltOn defended the quarantine service.
especially the Brownsville quarantine
ana submitted afidavits and statements
OF citizens OF Rio Grande City, Santa
Maria, Brownsville and other places that
Ihe work had been satisfactorily per-
formed. lie attacked the work of the
National Board of Health. referred to the
sinking of the boards tugs on the Ohio
ana mississippi rivers, and said that the
old Board of Health at Pensacola had been
presented for negligence and maladminis-
traIloh Dy the grand jury. stating.
on the authority of the eX-MayOr OF
that city, that after the epidemic had en-
tlreiy ceased requisitiOn had been made
on the National Board of Health for s.. 900.
which requisition was honored and the
money distributed among tLe friends of
that board. He presented documents in
support OF an assertion made by him that
the responsibility for the introduc-
tlon OF yellow fever into Pensacola
IN ISS2 rested on the local Board
OF Health, a prOtege of the NationaI
Board OF Health, and that the grand iury
OF Escambia county had so found. He
charged that they had employed Mr..
"arlng, lts Secretary, to write ESSAYS
on the prevention of the introduce
uOn OF sewer gas into houses.
ETC., while at the time Col. Waring held
several patents on that very subject. He
read list Of the patents to the Commits
sloner with the date of their issue. He
sald that during tle Brownsville epidemic.
While the people were dying daily and
everybody was looking upon the bulletin
boards for the names of friends. and a
state of general excitement prevailed.
while DR.. Murray, of the Marine Hospital
Service, with his corps of assistants were
doing their utmost to relieve the suffer
Ings of the sick, etc, DR.. Smart,
the Secretary of the National Board of
Health, was writing letters to per
sons whom he deemed inimical to the
quarantine service to find a flaw in the
administration, and to find out what the
service had not done rather than what it
had done. He also stated that DR.. Verdi
mad received $500 for writing an essay of
eight and One-half pages for the National
Board of Health, that three and one-half
pages OF the essay were made up from an
editorial from the London Times and the
hgures from the Bureau of Statistics
which the Surgeon General thought was
a somewhat high price for essays. He
also spoke of the barge Selden which was
purchased by the National Board of
Health at cost Of $4,000, when the barge
itself was a rotten Old canal boat and en-
tirely worthless.