Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-12-12
TO PROVIDE AEAINsT CHOLERA.
Senator Chandler Says immigration Must BIZ
Abolished for at Least One Year.

WASHINGTON, Dee. il.--Senator Chand
Ter, chairman of the senate committee on
immigration. said:
II take it that immigration must be re-
strictcd to the minimum, practically abol-
ished, for 1T least one year from earl,
spring. In addition to the danger of the
introduction of cholera from unrestricted
immigration, there remains to be considered
the question of protecting and encouraging
tourist travel to the Worlds Fair
If immigration is no. restricted, then
= Iarantine must be maintained With nt
steerage passengers quarantine can be re
uuced TO the shortest possible limit with
practically no Inconvenience to the passen
gers. Regular immigrant business will be
placed under such onerous conditions a.
will practically kill it, even if immi
grafton is not prohibited in precise terms,
and have a scheme by which the steam
| ship owners can recoup themselves for the
loss of that class of travel while the sus
pension lasts.
Let them fit up their steerage quarter
with accomm o'lations similar to those OF
the second cabin, and carry passengers to
New York during the Worlds Fair season
for $50 the round trip from European
ports. Twenty dollars round trip rate to
Chicago, 80 days stay in Chicago at S3 It
day, and $50 for inciientals, will give
Earopeans six or seven weeks trip for
500 in comfort. Such inducements would
doubtless draw very large number of tour
,sts and give the OCEAN liners business tina,
would more than repay them for the loss il,
immigrant travel. With immigrants will
come cholera, and travel to the Worlds
Fair will disappear.
A visitor to the Capitol today was DR.
Elmer Lee of Chicago. whose successful
treatment of cholera patients in Russia last
summer was described in the report of
Consul General Crawford at st. Peters
| burg. He has been lecturing on his pro-
| cess to the physicians of New York and
Washington, and next week may make -
sta ement before the joint immigration com
mittee. lie believes that cholera can b.
thoroughly controlled, and, so believing, he
opposes the long-continued quarantine i'm
posed by the United States authorities
He ssys that, with five-day quarantine
at the port Of sailing and intelligent treat
ment on the voyage, well passengers at thu
end of the voyage may he discharged p,
once, and should he, the sick ones being
removed to hospitals. DIR. jenkins, the
health officer of the por, of New York, i;
expected to appear before the committee
some day next week, probably on Wednes
day.
At the beginning of the SD Congress
Senator Harris of Tennessee, introduced !,
bill ito provide for the better enforcement
of the quarantine laws and regulations OF
the United States, to prevent the Introduce
ion of contagious or infectious Diseases il
to the nited States from foreign coun'rics
or from one State into another, and to
establish within the treasury department Il
national board of health" Later in thu
session he introduced another bill, "grani
ing additional quarantine powers and i'm
posing additional duties upon the Marin;
Hospital service"
No action was taken upon these measure
and the author intends to Introduce next
week new bill, comprising portions az
them both, with some additional feature
| suggested by the experiences of the last sea
son, his object being to give to the treasury
department, through the marine hospital
service and national board of health, al
ditonal power to grapple with the problem
of controlling infectious and epidemic dis
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