New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-03
THE BRITISH QUARANTINE.
MR.. GLADSTONE CONSULTING COLLEAGUES
UPON THE LEGAL DIFFICULTIES.

MR.. GLADSTONE CONSULTING COLLEAGUES
UPON THE LEGAL DIFFICULTIES.
| THE PRESIDENTS CIRCULAR WE'LL RECEIVED
sUBs1DENcE OF POPULAR ALARM IN
GREAT BRITAIN OVER CHOLERA.
co,,r,ont 1892: Bv the Ns,o. York Assoe,ated Pr
London. Sept 2-President Harrison's circular
relative TO the quarantining of vessels carrying
immigrants finds general approval and even
admiration here. There is some feeling of envy
also that the American law enables the Govern
ment to take such prompt and thorough steps 70
stop the importation of cholera. The hating
and imperfect measures Of the British locai
Government Board forbidding the unchaHcngeo
passing Of what the boards edict calls hithy
unwholesome persons from foreign ports are
questioned by high legal authority as exceeome
the powers of the board. The only act existing
which gives the board the shadow of right to
prevent the landing of aliens either on Their way
to another country or having England as their
permanent destination, is the act Of 1886 Tor the
registration OF aliens. After such registration the
power Of the board TO interfere with anens
vanishes.
The Government, in cooping up Immigrants a.
Gravrsend and elsewhere, are acting illegally and
retrospective act legalizng what they have done
The Local Board officials and the boaru Vi i'"'
officials desire to go further.
II is feared that one result Of President iarri-
sons measure will be to stop the stream OF alieh
emoration 20 America. and make England 'ho
nermanent home of many families who had IN
tended to seek new homes across the sea ne
prolonged quarantine declared by the tnit'u
States is not regarded hostile to England pS''
with a view to countcracting Its undoup'ed 'Fh-
dency to throw a crowd Of infected Immigrants
into Great Britain, the officials of both boards urge
that the Government make immediate assent 10 Il
prohibition of .hc landing of Immigrants from IN
fcctcd ports and to q long quarantine on vessels
from such ports In the absence Of an act EN-
powering such measures, it is held that the frlVy
Council could issue an edct
Mr.. Gladstone and Mr.. Fowler, Secretary OIL
State for War, have to-day been communicating
with Sir Charles Russell, the Acknowledgements
and Mr. Ricby. the Solicitor-Gcncral, IN regard
70 means n meet the legal difficulties The
Associated Press representative who mas 'aiNeu
with the agents of the leading steamship com
panes finds the concensus OF opinion 70 DE tlat
the Presidents circular is needlessly severe. 1t
,Sa. feln like n thunderbolt Although prepared
70 refuse TO book any more steerage passengers
tho companies could not regard with complacence
the order that the circular take immediate efect,
the result being 10 throw three weeks support
of many engrants upon them or 10 ooll2e them
10 return the unfortunate people to the places
whence they sailed. Despite the circular, now
ever some vessels are certain to take thclr lull
comploment of enigrants. Sevcra! steamship
companies now refuse TO book even hrst ana
second-class passengers from German ana o'hef
Continental ports; but the same companies nav
ing thousands of stecragc passengers already
banked are in a auandary how 70 discontinue
this service on the instant, having contracted to
nroyide for the booked emigrants until they arc
landed at their port Of destination
In the meantime the cholera In Great Britain
secms to have been fairly mastered. The chief
physician of the Local Government Board told the
Associated Press representative to-day tha' tne OUT
looL was entirely satisfactory He said that, al
/ though about thirty cases Of cholera at all the
norts Of Great Britain had been dealt with in the
lat ton davs there was no single instance Of the
disease spreading beyond the person first attacked
While it hes been proved that every case OF
cholera occurring in this country was cohtla1'eu
abroad and that the medical board puts thc pest
face on the situation still the fact Is palpaDle 70
everybody that the public has become utterly
unconcerned and has become impued WIN ,le
assume an epidemic form. The reports which have
of late been appearing in the newspapers IN re-
ard 10 fresh victims Of cholera have been traced
to their foundation. and the alleged cases OF tho
scourge have resolved themselves INTO oruinaiy
seasonal disorders. Absolute confidence prevails
among the people that the perfect sanitary con
dtion Of England will secure the country against
'ie err,o nSted cholera expert Erncst Hart speak
ing at meeting of the Health Society last nlsh,'
declared that there fear Of great ,,9 31'- IT.
break of the pestilenee in Great Britain, S'i, ne
nrrcd the adoption of precautions whichi sum
mrS u.s1' NO. are ss follows Careful medical nspec
ton Of ports strict isolation in chance ca.s ol
the disease pure water, and general cic.hiness' s"
Tho musicians of this city Will discuss the proI
rosaI Of the establishment of an internailona.
cholera commission TO report on the o1iGn "t
thc nlaoue It's line OF march through the dlncrch'
snvnptr;eS s,u in which it has made its appearance
sp%" and the various methods of treatment employed
in the cases of persons stricken with the diseaee