Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-01-07
E[uS DI ltltdnA1.
From All Quarters.
TO KEEP OUT CHOLERA.
The Senate Discusses the
Quarantine Bill.
BROOKLYN OFFICIALS INDICTED.
Much Property Destroyed by
High Tides.
ANTI.SEMITIC FEELING IN PARIS.
Killed His Four Children
and Himself.
ANTI-sEMITIc FEELING IN PARIS.
IMMIGRATION AND CHOLERA.

IMMIGRATION AND CHOLERA.
Discussion of the Bill Imposing AID.
ditional Quarantine and Increa sing
the Duties of the Marine Hospital
Service-Strict Quarantine Regula.
lions Which Shall Not Exclude Inn.
migrants FavOred-National and
State JurisdIction-Senato Frye,s
Joke.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. Gin the senate the
resolutions offered yesterday by Mr.. Hill
calling on the state department for in
formation as to whether the bill to sus
pend immigration is in conflict with any
treaty with a foreign government, was
taken up and agreed to with some verbal
amendments.
| After the routine morning business SEN
| ate bill granting additional quarantine and
| imposing additional duties upon the marine
| hospital service was taken up under a
| special order.
Mr.. Chandler complimented Mr.. Harris,
the author of the bill, for his zeal and in
| telligenoe as chairman of the committee on
| epidemic diseases, and took 1t for granted
i that the details of the preceding bill were
| wise and judicious. He (Ar. Chandler)
| was in favor of every possible step that
could be devised for the protection of this
| country from the introduction of cholera
during the coming season. All the pow
ers of the state governments and
of the national government should
be put in motion to prevent
it. He believed that the treasury depart
/ ment should without delay promulgate
rules and regulations prescribing what
should be the quarantine methods adopted
to prevent the introduction of diseases by
sea, which rules and regulations should
govern the immigrants at seaports on the
other side of the water before they took
ship, should prescribe the regimen to be
adopted on shipboard during the passage,
and should also provide the sanitary meas
ures to be adopted, by way of quarantine
and otherwise, in American ports on the
arrival of the vessel He believed that, af-
ter the treasury had formulated such
rules as the existing law authorized,
1t should be given all the power and
authority that it could use to keep the
scourge of cholera from either entering the
country or from spreading after it had en- :,
tered. And he believed that, when the
treasury department had done all 1t could,
and when the pending bill should have
become a law, it would be expedient for
the present congress to go further and to
pass the bill which mad been reported by
the committee on immigration for the en-
tire suspension of immigration for one
year.
Mr.. Chandler then proceeded to read ex-
tracts from the statements of leading ply
sicians of New York as to the imminency
of an invasion of cholera during the com
inp sprinp and summer
Mr.. Vest inquired whether the opinion
of DR.. Hamilton was included in the paper
from which Mr.. Chandler was reading;
and when he WAS informed that 1t was not,
he spoke of having met DR.. Hamilton in q
railroad car, and of the doctor having
brought up the subject and stated that
there was no necessity for excluding immi-
grants; that the cholera germ was fully
understood by the advanced thought of the
medical profession, and that it could be
controlled. DR.. Hamilton, he said, had
further expressed his apprehension that if
the bill to suspend inning ration became a
law, it would result in the worst class of
immigrants, the flthiest and most diseased,
coming in through Canada.
Mr.. Harris interrupted Mr.. Vest to say
that Dr. Hamilton was decidedly in favor
of the pending Immigration bill.
Mr.. Vest-Which excludes immigrants
Mr.. Har1is-By no means. There is,
however, an amendment pending, but no.
yet acted upon, which gives to the presi-
dent authority to suspend immigration
when he is satisfied that there is an ext
genoy requiring such suspension. The
senator is addressing himself to bill not
now under consideration.
Mr. Vest-I was addressing myself to
the remarks of the senator from New
Hampshire. DR.. Hamilton made that state
30 nd he hoe bod of
our quarantine regulations for a number
of years, both under democratic and re-
| publican administrations, am disposed to
! give his opinion great weight.
Mr.. Chandler said he had been showing
| that there was imminent danger of cholera
| during the present year. DR.. Hamilton
did not differ from the doctors whose
| opinions he had been reading, and did not
| underrate its danger in the least. Only
DR.. Hamilton believed as many of .le
other doctors did. that it might be kept In
check aud kept out of the country, with
out suspending immigration for one year.
Mr.. Vest-Thst is all that 1 said. DR..
Hamilton stated that there was necessity
for strict quarantine regulations, but not
for the exclusion of immigrants.
Mr.. Chandler-Dr. Hamilton does not
differ from the physicians 1 have quoted
as to the danger of cholera during the
coming spring and summer unless the most
rigid appropriate methods for exclusion
are resorted to.
Mr.. Chandler went on to describe the
preparations made in the hsrbor of New
York to treat cholera patients, and said
that he had been very favorably impressed
with those preparations. He had nothing
to find fault with in that respeot-nothine
to censtre, nothing to complain of. But
he believed that the secretary of the
treasury should, without weeks delay
put Camp Low into most perfect condi
ton, and that an emergency appropria
, ton for that purpose should be made b!
this congress.
Mr.. Cullom inquired whether Mr.. Cband
Ter was Satisfied with the kind of join
. stock arrangement between the state gov
| ernments and the national government.
Mr.. Chandler denied that there was
Joint stock arrangement. There was
national jurisdiction and state ju1isdic
| ton on the subject of quarantine. Will
= he was aware that there might be some In
convenience in this double jurisdiction
and while it might be deemed advisable b
congress at no distant day to take entir
control by national authority of the sui
iect of quarantine, he was not in favor c
4 attempting any such thing at the preser
session. He did not think 1t would be wis
| now to undertake to take possession of th
| quarantine works at the mouth of til
Mississippi or il, the harbors of Boston an
New York He did not think it wise fo
q the United States to take the sole respoI
sibility of excluding cholera In the comm
spring and summer.
Mr.. Platt-Do you intend to thro
the sole responsibility on the state autho
itiess
MI Chandler do not. My propos
ton is that We should pass the bill r
e ported by the senator from Tenness,
1Mr. Hsrris) found that that senate
was averse to any such radical measure
the senator from Connecticut is In fsv'
of, think that We should 60 on as '
/ are, The governor Of the state of Ne
J. York should put at the head of the qua
antine establishment IL such is not no
the oaee) . superintendent who will get {
well with the federal authorities; and q
secretary of the treasury should put at 4
head of the national Quarantine establis
ment at New York IF he is not alreat
,. ther.) a man who will get on we'll with I
I state authorities.
Mr.. Plat asked whether the seventh 81
ton of the quarantine bill, giving t
president power to suspend immigrstio
would not answer the purpose.
Mr.. Chandler said IL wonld be coward
to lsy the responsibility on the presidel
For thirty or sixty days aftsr March