St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-03
SUSTAINED JENKINS.
Rights of the states We're Re-
served in the Circular.


served in the Circular.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.-Secretary
Foster has received the following tele-
gram from Collector Hendricks at New
York:
"Referring to last paragraph of Cir
cular l50." the quarantine circular, shall
| detain vessels i'll quarantine that have
not entered, but are passed by the health
office, until special instructions are re-
ceived from the department, and will
such detention apply to cabin pasSen-
gers?"
Assistant Secretary Spalding ordered
the following reply to be sent:
"Circular 150 excerpts vessels afioat at
date of circular Any vessels within
will be entered. in absence of infurma-
ton received after they pass health
officers, that their entrance is likely to
Introduce cholera"
ID. S. Gamble, of Cincinnati. o.. in
quired by telegraph whether the twenty
days quarantine applied to vessels car
rying first and SecOnd-claSS passengers
only. The department in reply teDe-
graphed that the twenty days quaran-
tine did not apply, but that such passen-
gers should be detained until the health
officer is satisfied that there is no dam
ger of the introduction of cholera from
their admission.
The people on the Canadian border
are betraying some anxiety to know
whether or not the provisions of the
quarantine circular apply on the border.
Today the collector of customs at De-
troit telegraphed to the treasury depart
ment asking whether the circular ap-
piled to immigrants from Quebec and
Montreal. He was informed in reply
that they were not subject to its pro-
visions, but that immigrants from the
two places named should be detained
until all danger was passed.
The officials of the war department
feel the necessity of having every army
post in the country put in such good
sanitary condition that the disease. if
introduced, shall not spread on account
of bad hygienic conditions. To bring
about this desired result Adjt. Gen.
Williams today sent to each depart
ment commander ana to each independ-
ent post in the country certain memo
randa submitted by the surgeon general
and approved by the secretary of war
relating to cholera precautions.
The cablegrams received by the state
department in relation to the cholera
included one from the consul at Stettin,
VINO caDled as follows:
'Cholera at Griefowald. First case in
Pomerania. Sailor from Hamburg"
Another was from the consul at
Bremen. who cables:
NO cholera in Bremen yet. Every
sanitary precautioD with all passengers
taken.''
y copy of the New York dispatch
containing DR.. Jenkins views with re-
spect TO the twenty days quarantine
order was shown t o President Harrison
this afternoon. He declined, however,
to say anything in regard to the matter
for publication.
Secretary Foster listened attentively
while a reporter read to him the salient
points in the dispatch. He was not in
clined to comment very extensively on
what DR.. jenkins had to say. 1t
was his opinion, however. that
the doctor had not read the
circular very carefully, for he said it
0he doctors) power in the premises. 1t
was prepared with great care, SO as not
to interfere with any rights held by the
states, and there was no interference
whatever in the states administration
of the law. While the reporter was
talking TO him, the secretary obtained a
copy of the circular and read the reser-
vation clause, viz: "Unless such de-
tention is forbidden by the laws of the
state or the regulations made there
UNDER" reservation which the secre-
tary thought clearly demonstrated that
there was no Interference with the
states right.