Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-06
The Question Discussed in the Sen.
ate Today.
lHE MARINE HOSPITAL SERVICE.
The Enlargement of Its Powers il
Cases Of Emergency.
LIGHT WORK IN THE HOUSE.
The Attendance Less Than q Quo
run, but No Point Was Made.
SENATE.

Mr.. Hills resolution of yesterday as to the
immigration bill was taken up and sgreed to.
The quarantine bill was then taken up and
was under discussion, when, on motion Of Mr..
Sherman (Ohio), at IL: 50 the Senate proceeded
to executive business
After few minutes the doors were reopened
and the consideration of the quarantine bill
was resumed.
Mr.. Hills resolution calling on the State De-
partment for information as to whether the bill
To suspend immigration is in conflict with any
treaty with foreign government was tax en- up
and agreed to with some verbal amendments
THE QUARANTINE BILL.
After the routine morning business. Senate
bill granting additional quarantine powers and
imposing additional duties upon the marine hos
pital service was taken up as a special order
Mr. Chandler IN. H.) complimented Mr.
Harris Tenn. }, the author of the BILL for his
zeal and intelligence as chairman OF the
committee on epidemic diseases, and took
1t Tor granted that the details OF the
pending bill were wise and judicious He
(Mr. 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
powers OF the state governments and federal
government should be pu. in motion to
prevent it. He believed that the Treasury De-
psrtnent should without delay promulgate
rules and regulations prescribing what should
be the quarantine methods adopted to prevent
the introduction of disease by sea, which rules
and regulations should govern the immi-
grants 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
measures 10 be adopted by way Of quarantine
and otherwise in American ports on the arrival
OF the Vessel. He believed that, after the
Treasury Department had formulated such
rules as the existing law authorized. it should
be given ali the power and authority that i.
could use to keep the scourge of cholera from
either entering the country or from
spreading after 1t had entered And he believed
that. when the Treasury Department had
done all IT could, and when the pending bill
| should have become a law, it would be ex-
pedlent for the present Congress to go far
Their and 10 pass the bill which had been re-
ported by the committee on immigration for
the entire suspension Of alien immigration
for one year.
Mr.. Chandler then proceeded to read extracts
from the statements of leading Physicians Of
| New York as 10 the imIniuency OF an invasion
OF cholera during the coming spring and
| summer.
AS TO DIR. HAMILTON.
NJ. Vest (Mo.) inquired whether the
opinion Of DR.. Hamilton included in the
paper from which Mr.. Chandler was reading.
and. when he was informed that il was not he
spoke of having met DR.. Hamilton in a railroad
car and of the doctor having brought I'D
the subject and stated that there was no neces-
sitv for excluding Immigrants; that the cholera
germ was fully understood by the advanced
thought OF the medical profession, and that
1t could be controlled. DIR. Hamilton.
he said, had further expressed the appre-
hension that if the bill to suspend immigration
became law it would result in the worst class
of Immigrants the fllthiast nd
coming in through Alaska.
Mr.. ii trris Tenn interrupted Mr.. Vest to
say that DR.. Hamilton decidedly in favor
of the pending immigration bill.
Mr.. Nest-Whlch excludes immigrants?
Mr. Harris-By no means. There is, how
ever an amendment pending. but not vet acted
upon. which gives TO the President authority to
suspend immigration when he is satisfied that
there Is an exigency requiring such suspension.
The Senator is addressing himself to bill not
row under consideration.
Mr.. Vest-I was addressing myself to the re-
marks of the Senator from New Hampshire
DR.. Hamilton made that statement TO me- and
as he has had the control of our quarantine
regulations for a number of Years. both under
democratic and republican administrations. /
am disposed to give his opinion great weight.
IMMINENT DANGER OF CHOLERA
Mr.. Chandler said he had been showing that
there was imminent danger of cholera during
from the doctors whose opinions he had
been reading and did not underrate its dan
ger in the least. Only DIR. Hamilton believed
many of the other doctors did-that il might
be kept in check and kept ont of the country,
without suspending immigration FOR one wear.
Mr.. Nest-That is all that said. DIR. Ham
ilton stated that there was necessity for strict
quarantine regulations, but not for the exclu-
sion OF immigrants.
Mr. Chandler-Dr Hamilton does not differ
from the physicians / have quoted as to the
danger of cholera during the coming spring
and summer unless the most rigid appropriate
methods for exclusion arc resorted TO.
HOUSE.
In his prayer this morning the chaplain
uttered special invocation for Divine protec-
ton of the governors and legislatures of the
several states.
The Speaker, after the approval of the jour
nal and n fruitless call of committees for re-
ports, stated that on December II 4 bill had
been called up by Mr.. Cultivate extending the
provisions of the act to provide for the muster
and pay of certain of. 'ers and men of
the volunteer forces. He further stated that
upon that date no quorum had voted upon the
measure, and its consideration had been post
pOned until TODAY.
Mr.. Kilgore Tex suggested that the House
had had no authority to make any order for
postponement, as there had been no quorum
present.
The Speaker-No quorum voting.
As he uttered these words the Speaker him.
self could not repress smile, while laugh
went through the House, which was made more
emphatic when Mr.. Reed CMe.) dryly remarked
shat he hoped that the gentleman from Texas
would understand the distinction. 1t was a
per ectly legal one.
The bill was passed.
The House then proceeded to the considera-
ton of the unfinished business, being private
pension bills coming over from last session.
-Four or five were passed without opposition
but Mr.. Kilgore made the point Of no quorum
on the next and call of the House was ordered
One hundred and elghty-six members responded
to their names.
DISTRICT IN CONGRESS-.