Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-16
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placer INNING Laws.
Air. Gibson, from The committee on
co9ln roe, reported with amendment
bill 70 improve the navigation of the
Mississippi river, and to prevent de-
structiye floods. The bill was placed
on the calendar.
Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, offered resolu-
ton which was referred to the commit
tee on contingent expenses, instructing
the Judiciary committee to investigate
the subject OF dealing in options, and to
send for persons and papers.
Mr.. Chandler introduced and sup
ported resC 'ution for joint committee
investigation of the working of the im-
migration laws, especially in connection
with the recent typhus importation.
House.
The speaker was unable to preside,
being slightly indisposed and remaining
at his hotel. lie designated Mr.. Nc
Millin as 81 aker for the day Being
suspension { =, Mr.. Wise, of Virginia,
called up the bill to extend to the port
of Ogdensburg, N. Y, the privileges of
immediate transportation of merchan-
disc without appraisement, unanimously
reported by the committee on interstate
and foreign commerce. Passed.
Mr.. Hatch, of Missouri, called up the
resolution from the committee on agri-
culture inst1ucting that committee to
report the effect upon agriculture of the
present law for the collection of revenues
by means of duties upon imports. A
long discussion followed. Finally the
resolution was then passed without an
audible vote against it.
. Mr.. Outh waite, of Ohio, from the
committee on military affairs called up
the. bill to establish promotion through
out the veral branches of artillery,
cavalry and infantry.
The resolution provides that the SEN
ate committee on immigration and the
house committee on immigra zion and
naturalization, jointly investigate the
working of the laws of the United States
III relation to immigration from foreign
countries to the United States and the
importation of contract labor, and especi-
ally the recent importation into America
of immigrants infested with typhoid
fever into the port of New York, said
joint committees to be authorized to
proceed by subcommittee and to con-
duct their investigations wherever they
deemed best.
Mr.. Chandler said it was perfectly
clear that these immigrants, infected
with this dangerous and deadly disease.
should not have been allowed to land in
New York. The act of March 3, 1891,
was explicit III two particulars, that no
person should be allowed to come into
the United States while suffering from
loathesome and contagious disease, and
that no person should be landed who was
likely to become public charge.
On either ground these infected i'm
migrants should have been excluded.
1t might be that the commissioner of
immigration might be able to show that
his physicians did not discover symp-
toms Of typhus before they landed, but
the commissioner of immigration did
discover that they were likely to become
a public change, and he should have de-
tanned them. Had he complied with
the law i'll this respect the fever would
have broken out within two days, and
they would not have been landed and
scattered Owe New York and Brooklyn to
spread diseasJ through the communities,
but being N,.ited upon by the Hebrew
board of charities and received assurances
from them that these paupers would be
taken care OF for enc year, the commits
sioner opened wide the doors of Castle
Garden and allowed them to be distrib-
uted among the boarding houses selected
by the HebrC W board. Within two DAYS
afterwards this outbreak of typhus fever
occurred among them. He (Mr. Chand-
ler) would net be behind any senator in
sympathiziug with these unfortunate
people and regretting the policy of the
Russian governmental driving them out
Of the country, but self-protection was
the first law of nature. These people
We're infected in Odessa. They went to
COnstantinOple, but were refused admis-
sion there by the Turkish authorities.
They went to Marseilles, but the
French people would not allow them to
come i'll. They could not go to England,
because Eng gland, with all her profess
sions of philanthropy, had closed its
doors to Russian Hebrews. SO they
were shipped to the United States, to
perhaps infect the whole community
with typhus fever, and he (Mr. Chand-
ler) regretted to say that they had come
in when they should have been excluded
by the commissioner of immigration
under his strict duty under the laws of
the United States.
Mr. Harris, chairman of the commit
tee on epidemic diseases, warmly sup
ported the resolution and it was passed
The bill for government dry dock at
Alglers. La, was passed, the amount APP
propriated being raised to $S50,000.
The senate passed comprehensive bill
reported from the committee on COM
merce, authorizing the construction of
bridges across the Missouri river be-
tween its mouth and the mouth of
Dakota or James river; across the Mis-
siSsippi river between st. Paul, MINI,
and Southport, Ia, and across the Hi
nois river between its mouth and Joliet,
His, and to precribe the character.
location. and dimensions of the same.
Automat! Cash Registers Seized.