Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-10-15
DISREGARDED.
The Presidents Twenty-Day
Quarantine Order Violated.
A Vessel With Seven Hundred Immi.
grants Landed at Baltimore.

Seventeen Car Loads of Them Go to New
York and From There scatter All
ever the Country-Searching for
the Guilty Party to the scheme.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 1l.-A special dis
patch from Washington to the Com
mercal Gazette, says: Gen. o. l..
Spaulding, assistant secretary of the
treasury, is to angry to sleep. One of
his subordinates has defed the order OF
the president of the United States, re-
quiring foreign steamships to subject
themselves to twenty days quarantine
be fore discharging their passengers.
The steamship Muenchen, of the Bal
timore branch of the Bremen line, has
been permitted to pass quarantine, and
land her passengers in Baltimore, in
utter disregard of the order of the pres
dent. A man named Richardson. resid-
ing in Baltimore, caused cablegram to
be sent to Europe, stating that if, the
Muenchen should bring immigrants on
her next trip he could secure their land
ing by the use OF certain influence
which he possessed The steamer came,
brought nearly seven hundred immi-
grants. and arrived at Baltimore seven
days ago. Her arrival was reported to
the treasury department, and she was
held in quarantine. The surgeon of
the Marine hospital service boarded
and inspected the Muenchcn, and an
while the ships physician certified that
there had been no sickness during the
voyage, This was all we'll and good,
but, under the order of the president
the ship would have to remain in quar-
antine for twenty days An agent OF
the Bremen line called upon Secretary
Spaulding last Thursday and asked
him if there could not be some way
devised for releasing the passengers
and Immigrants, as it would be a hard
ship to keep them there, and illness
might result from their confinement.
Gen. Spaulding was considering the
matter, and giving it humane attention
until Monday morning. He was trying
| to devise some method OF releasing the
immigrants and passengers, although
| he was adverse to doing so, on account
of the ''brag' of Richardson, who had
promised to help violate the order of
the president before the ship sailed
| from Europe Monday morning,
strange as it may appear, Secretary
Spaulding received authoritative in
formation to the effect that the Muen-
chen had passed quarantine last Friday,
| discharged her passengers and immi-
grants, and that they had departed for
parts Unknown. Seventeen carloads Of
| them had gone to New York, and scat
tered from there all over the country
Secretary Spaulding telegraphed Balti-
more. and received a reply saying that
the ship had been permitted to pass
| quarantine because the surgeon of the
| Marine hospital service had given her
a clean bill of health Secretary Spauld-
ing has now telegraphed to know who
gave the surgeon of the Marine hospital
service authority to disregard the order
of the president The collector of
the port of Baltimore is absent
| from that city. 1t is I'M
derstood that he gave permis.
sion for the Muenchen to pass quaran-
tine and discharge her passengers just
how Richardson worked this scheme,
and who is the actually guilty person is
not yet determined The case is one of
the most fragrant violations of an ex-
ccutive order ever known. 1t is not
! merely that the passengers of the
Mucnchen were discharged and sent
throughout the country, for no fear OF
| danger arises on that account. But this
matter is a discrimination of one port
against New York, ard all other ports,
| The question is very grave one.
| The fact that the Muenchen succeeded
in violating the order of the presi-
dent is known already to all steamship
lines in Europe. They naturally draw
the conclusion that if the president
order can be violated in Baltimore. il
can at least be evaded in other ports. !,
is expected that they will at once start
to ship the immigrants whom they are
now maintaining at great expense tc
themselves at their European ship
Yards Assistant Secretary Spaulding
will not let this matter rest until the
guilty party is found, and removed
from public. service, if not prosecuted
under some state covering such an Of
fense.