The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-27
WORK OF CONGRESS.

From our San Francisco Correspondent I
The Senate has passed the quar-
antine bill without any opposition.
The bill provides that whenever
1t shall be shown to the satisfac-
ton of the President that, by
reason of the existence of cholera
or other infectious or contagious
diseases in a foreign country, there
is serious danger of the introduce
ton of the same into the United
States, and that Notwithstanding
the quarantine defense the danger
is so increased by the introduction
of persons or property from such
country, that the suspension of the
right to introduce the same is de-
manded in the interest of the pub
lie health, the President shall have
power to prohibit in whole or in
part the introductions of persons
and property from such countries
or places as he shall designate, and
for such a period of time as he
may deem necessary"
An appropriation of 100000
is made to enable the President to
carry the act into effect Compen-
sation is to be made for quaran-
tine buildings and property re-
ceived from States or municipali-
ties. The act of March 3, 1879,
establishing a National Board of
Health, is repealed.
Senator Squire has introduced
in the Senate a House bill author
izing the Secretary of the Navy to
contract for one Berdan ironclad
destroyer. At the request of Sen
ator Squire the bill was referred to
the Committee on Naval Affairs.
The House has passed the SEN
ate bill to retire Judge M. P.
Deadly of Portland, Oregon, as an
Associate Justice of the United
States Supreme Court in Oregon.
The House has also passed a
bill to provide for the punishment
of offenses on the high seas. 1t
provides that every person who is
not one of a crew on board any
vessel belonging in whole or in
part to any citizen of the United
States who shall, in defiance of the
master, create any riot or disorder,
or shall commit any breach of the
peace, or shall hinder, obstruct or
resist the crew in the performance
or execution of any law, or any
orders or commands of the mas
ter or officers of such vessels, shall
be punished by fine not exceed
ing $1,000, or by Imprisonment not
exceeding one year, or both. 1t
places similar penalty upon any
passenger who shall inspire any
member of a crew to disobey the
law, or the orders of the master,
and forbids all crews to combine
in revolt or mutiny, or to resist
orders.
The Treasury Department wants
San Francisco builders to bid on
two swift launches for use in sup
pressing opium smuggling on
Puget Sound. Each launch is to
be fifty feet long with quarters for
two officers and four men, and to
cost about $4,000 each laid down.
The friends of the Chinese are
preparing to make an assault on
the exclusion law, but there is no
chance for-the repeal of the Geary
law at this session, although the
appropriation to enforce it might
be cut out.
The House has promptly pass
ed the bill providing for the cleo
ton of United States Senators by
the direct vote of the people. The
Republicans opposed the measure
but were finally forced to sur
render.
A bill has been introduced in
the House to suspend during the
first year CT each Presidential term
all civil-service laws in so far as
they restrict or interfere with the
free exercise by the President or
heads of departments the power to
remove or appoint officers or en-
ployees of the government. The
preamble to the bill says that no
Administration can fully and sat-
isfactorily carry its policies into
execution if a large portion of the
subordinate officers are hostile to
such policies.