Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-01-24
From All Quarters.
THE QUARANTINE BILL
Passes the Lower House by
a Big Majority.
BISHOP BROOKS SUDDEN DEATH
Golfers Crushed to Death
by Falling Walls.
PANAMA sUe-coMKIssIoN REPORT.
Bennington and Rutland
Train Derailed.
QUARANTINE-ANTI-OPTIONS.

II Train Derailed.
Il QUARANTINE-ANT
The House Passes the First Measur,
Tho Senate Unanimously Agree
to a Final Vote on the Latter OIL
Tuesday Next.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-The houee Ii
continuation of Saturdays session met a
II o'clock this morning. This had the Of
feet to continue the special order undel
which the quarantine bill ia being oonsid
cred, and the house Immediately proceeded
in committee of the whole to further dis
cussion of that measure.
On motion of Mr.. Warner of New Yorl
an amendment was adopted extending the
provisions of the bill to immigration and
importation across land boundaries. as well
as across sea boundaries The object Of
this amendment, as explained by Mr.. War
ner, is to protect the Canadian and Mexi-
can frontiers.
Mr.. Mallory, (dem.) offered An amend
ment providing that nothing In this act
shall be construed to authorize the secre-
tary of the treasury to prohibit or the
president to restrain or prevent the pas
| sage from one state to another of persons
| not immigrants and not engaged in COM
| meroe.
Mr.. Mallory said that the object of the
amendment was to bring the bill within
| the constitution. For instance, If New
| York was an infected port, persons living
in Jersey City who were employed in New
York could not If the treasury department
| so decreed, return to their homes after
their daily labor. This was an infringe
ment of personal right. he was in favor
of restricting the power of the department
to immigrants and to persons employed In
commerce.
Nj Patterson Tenn. spoke in support
of the proposition, basing his argument on
constitutional grounds.
Mr.. Milliken (Maine) In opposing the
amendment laid down the proposition that
no person had the right to go from one
state to another and carry a nuisance Or
worse than a nuisance-an infection with
him.
The amendment was lost-33 to 81.
Mr.. Broeius (Pa offered an amendment
providing that all quarantine regulations
existing by authority of state law or
municipal ordinance at any place where
the Federal government shall establish
quarantine regulations, shall be Of no e;-
feet, 80 far as they may be in conflict with
this act. His sincere conviction, he said,
was that this should be az near q national
bill as congress could make it. The defence
of the people of the United States against
plague and pestilence was as much q duty
as their defence against an invading army
or navy.
The amendment was lost-53 to 70.
Mr.. Covert IN. ~ offered an amend
ment that nothing contained in the bill
shall be construed to authorize the estab-
lishment or maintenance of any quarantine
station in any locality where proper con-
stitutional authority shall officially deter
nine such action to be dangerous to the
lives and safety of the people of such To-
cality. After debate the amendment was
rejected.
Mr.. Cummings, in speaking to verbal
amendment said that the pending bill
over-rode all state laws, and hs now served
notice on the house that whenever 1t was
proposed to consider q bill that over
rode state rights It would derive no quar-
ter from him. He intended hereafter to
use every parliamentary rule to defeat any
such measure. State rights had been over
ridden by legislative action long enough.
It was time that the line was re-estab-
lished, and he would do his little quota in
re establishing.
After the rejection of various other
amendments the committee rose and re-
ported the bill to the house. Then the
house found itself in tight parliamentary
tapgle, and every member who attempted
to disentangle 1t only the knot irmer.
The bill as reported from the committee
of the whole was q substitute for the origi-
nal bill introduced by Mr.. Raynor, and
such substitute was reported as one amend
ment, although 1t had itself received sew
eral amendments. Complaint Yves made
that this was not the proper status of the
bill, but the speaker was firm in his de-
cision that there was but one amendment,
the substitute, pending.
The previous question was finally ordered
on the substitute reported by the commit
tee of the whole, 1873 to 30, and the substi
tuts was agreed to.
Then came the vote on the final passage
of the bill. On division the vote stood
III to AZ. Mr.. Mallory raised the point of
no quorum, but on q vote by teller the
vote stood 1873 to 20 No effort was made
to secure the yeas and nays.
The Senate.
The senate proceeded to the consider
alton of the anti-option bill, the question
being on the amendment offered by Mr..
Villas to the George substitute. Mr..
George proceeded with the argument which
he had partly made last Saturday. he
went on to argue against the objections
| made by Mr.. Gray on Saturday, and to
quote authorities in support of his own
view.
Mr.. George spoke for An hour: and when
he took his seat a proposition was made by
l NJ oohh To %ho fob ar
Thursday next. This was objected to by
Mr.. White, who said that the senators from
New York and Delaware (Hill and Gray
desired to address the senate aud were not
present to-day, and he sug9ested Tuesday
Of next week as the time for taking the
vote. After some colloquy Mr.. Washburr
consented to Mr.. Whites proposition; ant
the arrangement was finally made that 81
O'Clock on Tuesday of next week the vot'
, shall be taken on the George substitute ant
no later than 2 o'clock on the bill itself.
Mr.. Chandler expressed himself as pre-
pared to vote for the George substitute
lures and options prohibited by the direc
method proposed In the substitute rathe
than by high taxation a. proposed in tn
bill, although he believed that eithe
method was constitutional.
He pointed out the inconsistency Q
Senators Hoar and Plstt In arguing againi
the oonstitutionality of putting prohibit
T i've taxes on dealings in options and fl
lures, while they favored . tariff law this
taxed foreign manufactured articles q
most, If not quite, to extinction, in orde
to protect the industries of their ow
states. BE would like An explanation fro,
those constitutional lawyers on this An
other points which he mentioned, and d.
clared that he himself believed in large an
liberal construction of the constitution
He placed himself alongside of the sent
tor from Mississippi (Mr. George in whol
he discovered an ally in that enlarged An
liberal construction Of the constitute
and he warned the senator's from Mass
), chusetts and Connecticut, that they woul
have to make fight next session In fav'
Of tariff law which the democratic par
was bound to destroy, II II were true
the platform on which IL won the pre-
81 dential victory. He expressed his graf
tuds to the other side Of the chamber Il
l. the advocacy Of IN ENLARGED and Nber
and full construction Of the oonstitutio
J. and said that when they came in the ne
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