Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-09-02
PORTS CLOSED
TO IMMIGRANTS
Speedy Action Taken at the
Conferences of Presi-
dent and Cabinet.
20 DAYS. QUARANTINE FOR VESSELS
FROM INFECTED CITIES.

fected-AImost a Panic in Stocks When
the Order Became Known.
WASHINGTON, Sep.2.-The issuing of the
circular quarantining vessels from ports
infected with cholera for 20 days meets
with general favor everywhere, and the
President and his advisers are heartily
| commended.
While the quarantine will apply to ves-
sells from all ports, it is assumed that
| health officers will have discretion in the
matter, and will be allowed to act as they
see fit in the case of vessels that come
from non-infected ports, and that have
clean bills of health.
The practical effect of the declaration
of 90 days quarantine, it is believed,
| will be to stop immigration from Europe
for the time being.
Steamship companies, it is argued, will
not bring immigrants to this country and
support them for long period before
| they are allowed to land.
The following is the full text of the cir
cular:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE
SUPERVISING SURGEON GENERAL,
UNITED STATES MARINE HOSPITAL
| SERVICE,
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sep. 1, 1892.
| To Collectors of Customs Medical Officers of
the Marine Hospital Serutce, Foreign Steam
ship Companies, State and Local Boards of
Health:
1t having been officially declared that
| cholera is prevailing in various portions
| of Russia, Germany and France, and at
certain ports in Great Britain as well as
Asia, and it having been made to appear
that immigrants in large numbers are
| coming into the United States from the
affected districts aforesaid, and that they
| and their personal effects are liable to in
| troduce cholera into the United States,
and that vessels conveying them are
| thereby direct menace to the public
health, and it having been further shown
that under the laws of the several
States that quarantine detentions may
/ be imposed upon thsse vessels suf6-
| Gent length of time to insure against
the introduction of contagious dis
eases, it is hereby ordered that no YES
sci from any foreign port carrying immi-
| grants shall be admitted to enter any
! port of the United States until said vessel
shall have undergone quarantine deten-
ton of 20 days (unless such detention is
| forbidden by the laws of the State, or
| regulations made thereunder) and of such
| greater number of days as may
be fixed in each special case by the State
| authorities.
| MS circular 10 Jake 6ueCG,
| except in cases of vessels a1oat at this
date, which will be made the subject of
special consideration upon due applica-
tion to the department..
(Signed) WALTER WYMAN,
Supervising Surgeon General United
States Marine Hospital service.
| CHARLES FOSTER, Secretary of the
| Treasury.
| Approved, BENJAMIN HARRISON.
|
ence tn at the circular would apply to the
mails as we'll as passengers and merchan
disc.
Shortly after noon the President.
| Attorney General Miller, Secretary
Charles Foster, Assistant Secretary
Spaulding and DR.. Wyman, Surgeon
| General of the United State Marine Hos
| pital Service met in conference at the
| Executive Mansion.
Attorney General Miller was called
into the conference to define the power of
the President to suspend the operation Of
law admitting immigrants into the
United States during the prevalence of a
pestilence abroad; also to give his opinion
| as to what extent the prohibition of immi-
grafton could be enforced under the
State quarantine regulations and. in a
word, to counsel with the President upon
all matters affecting his legal powers to
act.
Secretary Foster as the head of the
Treasury Department., which has the di-
rect enforcement of the immigration
laws as we'll as the general supervision OF
the Marine Hospital service, was natur-
ally present to inform the President as to
what action had already been taken, and
Assistant Secretary Spaulding and Dr.
| Wyman as the officers under whose per-
sonal direction all action is taken were
there to inform the President as to the
l. of = Il oil
templated and to receive such suggestions
as he deemed wise in the premises to put
into practical effect
Private Secretary Halford, after the
conference adjourned, said to a reporter
that there was no likelihood of the Presi-
dent issuing proclamation ON the SUBJ
ject nor was there any occasion for I'M
! necessary alarm. The President had
deemed it prudent to come here and per-
sonally confer with his associates on the
cholera Situation and acquaint himself
| with what had been done rather than to
make the subject one of correspondence.
The latter course would involve con-
siderable time and labor and not be nearly
| as satisfactory"
AS result the circular above given
has been issued by the Treasury De-
partment, approved by the President,
giving supplemental instructions to Col
= lectors of Customs and Marine Hospital
officers concerning further restrictions to
prevent the introduction of cholera into
the United States. Additional inspectors
are being appointed in the New England
States along the Canadian border. Med
ical inspection will be established at St.
Adams, Newport, Richford and Island
Pond, Vt.
The President expressed himself during
the consultation (which lasted two hours
as entirely satisfied with the steps thus
far taken by all the United 4 States
officers.
The protection of the Canadian border
is receiving close attention. ~
The Secretary of the Treasury received
a letter from the Governor of Michigan
requesting him to detail an additional
force of inspectors between Detroit and
Sault Ste Marie during the prevafencs Of
cholera.
Secretary Foster replied that tho ra