St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-03
Britons Approve and Admire
President Harrison'S
Proclamation.
English Authorities Have No
Power to Enforce a
Quarantine.
All Cases Of Cholera in Eng
land Have Come From
Abroad.
No Abatement of the Dread
Scourge in the Stricken
City Of Hamburg.

LONDON. Sept. 2.-President Harri-
sons circular relative to the quarantin-
ing of vessels carrying immigrants finds
general approval, and even admiration,
here. There is some feeling of envy
also that the American law enables the
government to take such prompt and
thorough steps to stop the importation
of cholera. The hating and imperfect
measures of the British local govern
ment board directors, that what that
boards edlct calls Filthy, unwholesome
persons coming from foreign ports"
shall pass unchallenged, are questioned
by high local authorities as exceeding
the powers of the board.
The only act existing giving the board
the shadow of right to prevent the land
ing of aliens ell route to another cOun-
try, or having England as their perma-
nent destination, is the act of 1886 for
the registration Of aliens. After such
registration the power of the board to
Interfere with aliens vanishes.
Actin. Illegally.
The government in coping up immi-
gronts AT Gravesend and elsewhere is
acting illegally, and will be obliged to
ask parliament to pass retrospective
act legalizing what it has done. The
local board officials and the board of
trade officials desire to go further.
1t is feared that one result of Presi-
dent Harrison'S measure will be to stop
the stream of alien immigration to
America and make England the per-
manent location Of many families who
had intended to seek new homes across
the water. The prolonged quarantine
declared by the United States is not re-
garded any wise as hostile to England,
but, with view to counteract its un-
doubted tendency to throw crowd of
infected immigrants into Great Britain,
the officials of both boards urge that the
government make immediate assent to
prohibition of the landing of ilnnii-
grants from infected ports. In the alb
S-nce of an act empowering such
measures II is held that the priyy cOun-
Gil
Could Issue an Edict
Mr.. Gladstone and Mr.. Fowler, secre-
tary of state for war, have today been
communicating with Sir Charles Rus
sell, the attorney general, and Mr..
Rigby, the solicitor general, to obtain
tain their advice with regard to meaus
to meet the legal difficulties.
The Associated Press representative,
who has interviewed the agents of lead
ing steamship companies. finds the con-
SeuSuS of opinion to be that the preSi-
dents circular is needlessly severe. 1t
was felt like thunderbolt. Although
prepared to refuse to book any more
steerage passengers. the companies
could not regard with complacence
the order that the circular
take immediate effect, the result
being to throw three weeks support of
many emigrants upon them or to oblige
them to return the unfortunate people
whence they sailed. Despite the circu-
lar. however, some vessels are certain
10 take their full complement of emil
grants. Several steamship companies
now refuse to book even first and sec
ond-class passengers hailing from Ger
many and other continental ports, but
the same companies. having thousands
Of Steerage passengers already booked,
are in a Quandary how inStanter TO dis
continue this service. having contracted
to provide for the booked emigrants
until they are landed at their port of
destination.
In the meantime the cholera in Great
Britain seems to have been fairly mas
tered. The chief physician of the local
government board said today that the
outlook was entirely satisfactory. He
SAID that, although
Thirty Cases of Cholera
at all the ports of Great Britain had
been dealt with during the last ten
days, there was no single instance of
the disease spreading beyond the first
person attacked. While it has been
proved that every case of cholera Oc-
curing III this country was contracted
abroad, and that the medical board put
its best face OH the situation, still the
fact is palpable to everybody that the
public has become utterly unconcerned,
and has become imbued with the con-
vction that the disease Will not be
allowed to spread, and that it will never
assume an epidemic form.
The reports which have of late an
peared in the newspapers in regard to
fresh victims of cholera have been
traced to their foundation, and the al
legged cases of the ScOurge have resolved
themselves into ordinary seasonal dis
orders. Absolute confidence prevails
among the people that the perfect sani-
tary condition OF England will secure
the country against the ravages of
baccilli bred in foreign filth. The noted
cholera expert, Ernest Hart, speaking
before a meeting of the health society
yesterday morning, declared that there
was no fear of a great outbreak of the
pestilence in Great Britain; still he
urged the adoption of precautions
which, summed up, are as follows:
Careful medical inspection of ports:
strict isolation in chance cases of the
disease; pure water and general clean
illness.
The physicians Of this city will dis
cuss the proposal of the establishment
of an international cholera cOmmi ssion
to report on the origin of the plague. its
line of march through the different
countries where it has made its appear
ance and the various methods of treat
ment employed in the cases of persons
stricken with the disease.
Request Similar Measures.
DUBLIN, Sept. 2.-The Cork town
council has passed resolution setting
forth their intention to call Mr.. Glad
stones notice to the omptanti-cholera
precautions taken by the American
government. and request that similar
measures be adopted by Great Britain.
1t transpires this evening that 1920
fever patients occupy all the beds usu-
ally available in London hospitals for
emergencies: About 1900 beds have
been specially arranged, however, to
meet the requirements of cholera epi-
demic.
Called for Hamilton,