Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-08
pital site and the purchase of another site
at Pittsburg, Pa.

pital site and the purchase of another site
at Pittsburg, Pa.
Congress Responsible for Delays.
The report charges the delay in commenc-
ing work on many new public buildings to
the failure of Congress to provide necessary
clerical and expert force and to the eight
hour law. Especial attention is called to
securing plans for public buildings
The subject of the Worlds Fair Is briefly
dismissed with the statement that satisfac-
tory progress has been made in the prepa-
ration of the departments exhibit in the
arrangement of the customs laws and regu-
lations and on the Government building.
Speaking of the subject of immigration
the Secretary is clearly of opinion that only
by a rigid examination made at the place OF
departure can the prohibitive features OF
the law be executed with any considerable
degree of efficiency. The remedy of the
evils of immigration, the Secretary says,
is within the control of Congress The
Secretary recommends the imposition of
head tax. AS measure to determine what
this tax should be be suggests that the sum
should be such as will equalize the cost to
the immigrants to reach South America or
Australia
On the subject of alien contract labor
laws, the Secretary says the'vigorous exc
cution of the law has called halt In the ex-
tensive Importation of foreign laborers
under contract On the subject OF Chlnese
exclusion, the Secretary saws that notwlth-
standing the severity of the laws relating
thereto many Chinese persons find their
way into our territory, chiefly by way OF
Canada
A Big Loophole for the Chinese.
Provision is made for the admission Of
IL 0f Y
ors at the Worlds Fair, and it is probable,
the Secretary SAYS, that large number OF
Chinese laDorers will enter the United
States under this authority. The Secretary
saws at the close of the fiscal year nc appll-
cations for certificates had been made by
resident Chinese laborers, and that there
seems to be determination on the part OF
the Chinese not to register.
Touching the Marine Hospital, the Sec
retary calls attention to the activity OF the
Marine Hospital Bureau during the past
summer and fall, owing to the threatened
invasion of cholera in the United States,
and refers to the several preventive meas,
ures adopted to keep it out. 1t is proposed
to keep in force the 2o-day restriction until
Congress shall have opportunity to express
its will in the matter, or until the danger
which prompted it shall have disappeared.
Where railroads cross from Canada into the
the United States no baggage OF immigrants
is admitted into the United States without
previous disinfection. Reference is made
to the establishment of Camp Low on Sandy
Hook, and the Secretary says that addl-
tions will be made to the camp during the
winter with a view to its utilization should
cholera again appear in the summer. On
the subject OF quarantine the Secretary SAYS:
Government Control of Quarantine.
Estate laws cannot properly control or
direct the management of great quarantines
where other States are interested. The
whole country should have voice in their
ownership and management and this can
only be accomplished by such legislative
action as will forbid the collection of quar-
anriue fees by State or municipal authori-
ty, and which shall direct the assumption
OF all quarantine duties by the United
States. This duty rests under the same au-
thority as that under which laws relating to
immigration are framed ond executed
Every serious epidemic that this country has
ever known has been traced to the 1mm1-
grant, and must be apparent that the same
authority that controls immigration should
control quarantine. Admitting that any
particular local quarantine may be perfectly
managed, of what avail is 1t if a neig hbor1ng
port has either a lax or insufficient guar
antine, or none at all? Such are the fac1lt-
ties for inland communication that all
Quarantines must be equally efficient to be
successful in preventing Importation OF
disease and only the strong arm OF the
Government, directed under laws enacted
by representatives of the whole people, can
give confidence and security"