Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-15
DRASTIC DISCIPLINE.

A Cholera Proclamation Considered by
the President.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.--At the state
department it is stated that an import
ant proclamation win soon be issued
from that department. In other official
quarters it IS intimated that the docu-
ment will bear upon the cholera ques-
ton. Inasmuch as the proclamation or
statement will issue from the state and
not the treasury department. it may
emanate from President Harrison.
limitations were officially made Tues
day that the president had in mind a
proclamation which would refuse a
landing to all ships having ON board
cholera-infected immigrants, and would
turn back to their ports of embarkment
the entire cargoes of human and other
freights.
II has been serious question In the
minds of the president, the secretary of
the treasury, and other officials, whethe
it would be unlawful or just to refuse q
landing to American citizens simply be-
cause they sailed from ports infected
with cholera, or were passengers with
those who were suffering from or had
died with cholera. And yet there was
another side to this point at issue.
To refuse landing to healthy immi-
grants simply because they sailed from
infected ports with infected passengers,
and at the same time admit to landing
our own citizens who were equally sub
iected to the dangers of infection would
not only be o violation of the spirit of
harmonious international relations, but
an insult to the countries from which
the immigrants come.
1t is reported that President Harrison
has commended for some days that we
should treat our own citizens, under
all the circumstances, upon the same
ground that we treat foreigners,
and that we must turn back the
entire shipload, human freight and
all, and refuse quarantine accommo-
dations or landing, that it was the
only effectual way to discipline
the steamship companies which are daily
disregarding their promises to cease inn
migration traffic at infected ports till
the cholera has subsidized. 1t Is here be-
lieved in official circles that the presi-
dent has framed his proclamation upon
the subject and that he will either issue
it or give the steamship companies an
other warning which they can not mis-
take.
There is no doubt that the president
has determined to put an abrupt stop to
immigration from infected ports at all
hazards, and If not by appeals to the
humanity of the steamship companies,
then by the enforcement of extreme
powers at the command of the chief ex-
ecutive.
1t is not impossible that the particu-
lar statement or proclamation promised
at the department of state will relate to
the Venezuela trouble, and will be in
tended to allay fears of serious trouble
and the president defer his cholera proc
lamation for day or two for that
reason.
To show how the people of the west
are standing by the president in his po-
position towards quarantine and the
cholera letters are coming daily to the
White House from mayors and other Of
ficials of large cities of the west, especial
ly affected by the influx of immigrants.
Among these letters are documents from
the mayors of Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland
and other cities praising the president for
his prompt action, and urging, if posi-
BILE, more stringent enforcement against
immigration. They one and all advise
total suspension or prohibition of i'm
migration and ask him to act at once in
the matter Letters from mayors in far
western towns especially ask for tenn
porary restriction of immigration.