The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-23
Then the quarantine bill

| Head, Mass. In6n Cn0 QudIdHtIHe uili
| was called up.
The section providing that the marine
hospital service shall now cooperate
and aid state and municipal boards of
health in the execution of their rules
and the rules made by the Secretary OF
the Treasury to prevent the introduction
of contagious OF infectious diseases, was
bone of contention. Mr.. Grain of Tex
as moved to strike out the clause which
authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury
to make quarantine regulations at such
ports where quarantine regulations exist
under authority of the state or munich
pality which in the opinion of the SEQ
retary, are noe sufficient to prevent the
introduction of contagious diseases into
the United States, or into one state from
another.
Mr. Bowers of California inquired
whether the ect of the amendment was
not to make the state authority para
mount to the authority of the United
States.
Mr.. Crain's reply was that the state
ION aquestion like thisl ought to be
paramount.
Mr.. Bowers-s'That is the point 1
wanted to reach. / want people to
know whether states should be para
! mount to the United States. But / want
to say that Asiatic cholera does not stop
at state lines OF boundaries and it will
not stop even when the Tammany tiger
shows its teeth. 1t will walk over the
tiger The amendment was rejected.
/ Mr. Cochran offered an amendment
providing nothing in the act shall be
construed to authorize any federal ofic-
er to relax, modify or suspend any rule,
precaution or regulation adopted by
state or municipal authority for the ex-
clusIon of disease or to permit the en-
tIance or discharge Of any vessel where
quarantine regulations have been es-
tablished by such authorities until the
vessel shall have complied with the reg
ulation, agreed to 94 to SS.
Throughout the day the confusion was
great and the elimination was reached
when an amendment was offered, the
reading of which could not be heard ten
feet from the clerks desk To this fact
Dickerson called attention. He added
that the bill was import Mt and should
not be acted upon in such utter inatten-
tion. He therefore moved that the com
mittee for the bill was being con idered
in committee of the whole), rise. This
YVES agreed to and the House took a
recess until II o'clock Monday. The
effect of this action will be to bring the
bill up Monday.
The House substitute for the Senate
bill concerning the testimony under the
Interstate commerce law was non-con-
Cured in, a conference was asked, and
Senators Wilson, Teller and Pugh were
appointed conferees.
Wolcott's joint resolution, directing
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bian postage stamps, was taken up and
referred to the post Office committee.
The anti-option bill was then taken up,
the question being on Malls amend
ment t, Georges substitute, and Mr..
George continued his argument against
the proposed amendment and in favor of
his substitute. tThe substitute differs
from the Washburn bill in omitting all
the taxation sections of the latter, and
putting in lieu of them sections declar-
ing the dealing in options and futures to
be restrictions to and restraints upon
commerce, to be illegal and void, and to
be misdemeanors punishable with fine
and Imprisonment 63 = g
Senator George continued his speech
till adjournment, promising to finish
Monday.
Maine Pensions
Pensions have been granted to the fol-
lowing Maine people:
ORIGINAL. ~
Greenvile L. Hall, James E. Freeman,
ADDITIONAL.
Jerry L. McIntire Charles Durham,
Robert A. Denning, Marcellus p -Lovejo Joy,
William +. Newton, Thomas J. Poole,
William H. Pitcher. a.
SUPPLEMENTAL.
John B. Nutting.
INCREASE. t-Ss
Edwin S. Bachelor, Alex Mckay.
REISSUE. ,.s.ss.
Thomas L. Roberts.
ORIGINAL. WIDOWS. ETC.
Angie L Webber, Maria E. Manning.
Ellen S. Roche, Lydia E. ToWle, (sup-'
Amra A. Ryerson, plemental.l
Minor Emerson G. Joy, Minor of Elisha San