The age-herald., 1897-11-14

among them, which was not be- lieved probable. lave not time to give you all the details of the plan agreed upon. but it was to be quarantine Of registration and intelligence, rather than enc of force and dnexorahle blockade.
 Upon this policy pr. Cochran ard l heartily agreed, and it contained the principles on which we would have con- ductsd the quarantine, if fever had oc- cun.ied in Alabama. It was In thorough accord With the views I had twice tifed to enforce upon the legislature; and it was in line with Dr. Cochrans lifelong views about allowing a city to empty itself on the first case elf fever" Mont gomertianS, who remember the excite ment here fn 1878, on the appearance of yellow faver at Mobile, remember his celebrated letter, in which he invsished against the inhumanlty and folly of quarantdn-ng a city on the first of yellow fever. It was neither necessary mon. probable that Captain Amerfne knew of Dr. Cochian's views on the subject, or the determination we had reached; fer Dr. Cochran was not given to talking With subord.nates as to what he would do in emergencies which had not a1LSen; 1; and I was not then on agreeable terms with Captain Ameiire, and all my in- structionS to hm wsnt through the state health officer. I do not understand, from Captain Amnlfnes interview that he claims to have known of there confer ences.
 "As regards the instructions bsing "thie same now as then,'' that is a short horse socn curlrfed." The health officer on re o,espt of news that fever had broken out in Pensacola, sent a request to me a1eer supper to come to his house, where rnst two or three physrctans, one or whom I believe was a member or the state board of health. I agreed or course to issue the proclamation, but as 1t was the first quarantine under the state law, and to be conducted by the board or hsalth, there were many matters or de- tatl which could not be settled before the prciclama ion issued, Of It was 10 ap- pear in the moTning paper.
 "C)ne of tha physicsaris urged that For fd1arrs be prevented from even Iaegng through the state at all. This l wouhI not listen to. It was near mluhietpt when the conference broke upa | agreed with Dr. Cochran that the prclc.amat oof a,g issued should fo.Ibid passage, excspt on through trains, which did not rake on or discharge passengeTs-o or frelght hl the state, ard vie could modify 1t as cfr- cumstances might r:quire.
 ''Dr. Cochran stated that it would take A. day or two to get his force organized, and by that time tlla bulk of these vino wished to get cut of Pens0con txoul1 have left which was what he desired Nsxt day I modified the quarantine, SO as to provide for through cars" instead
  the superintendent of the Mobile and Montgomery rairlcad, and In the same way, after conference With Dr. Cochran, the proclamation was modified from m , to time, as to tfrefglhtS, by instructions to the roads concerned.
 "Dr. Coch-an's instructions, as Cep- tain AmIerine states, were originally based on the line of the fist prcclama- tion against Pens cola. WE=n the fever broke out at Brunswick I do not think O.. x,a1 fy.A-r4 tJ.ati i<NT1C Ills idea, was, that it was better to let the terms of the original rroclamation stand against Pensaco1a and Brunswick anl1 then exercis. a discretion, if cases arc,se of refugees wishing to stop at healthy points in Ar7hana. He thought ard I a,cauiegos1, that 1t was best not to create any excitemsnt by formal proc.a- nations of orders permitting refugees from Georgia and Flor.da to stop in the state and he said he would give his of ficers a discretion a.s to places where refugees were allowed to local authori- ties.
 "Carjt. Amerine VIII doubtless recpl- feet a conversation with me on the SUD ject shortly after he left the city, in which he stated that the quarantine of 1893 was so conduu- ed in practice. In fact, a geod deal of that sort or dts- cretion had been exercised in this year on the sly as to stopping at Opelia0a and coming back indo the state, as the cap tlain knows. WI my convictions ana views as to what Is the safest way to conduct a. quarantine, could never con- senlt that a refugee wiLo was in good health should not be permitted to st op in places like Opelika, Annistop. Monte Sano, CuTJiman and other like places. If the quarantine wlas in fact conducted in e. different spirit by Dr. Cochran s subordinates did not know it. I know that personally gave orders to the con- tgary
 aThe copies of my official telegrams, which should be in the executive office, VIII show several instances where l wired local quara n'tfne officers on rail- roa05 to allow refugees to stop in places where the To1al auIthor1 ie's did not ob- ject when the ma tier was brought to my attention
 'sBrunslwHck was SD situated that few refugees ever came to this state, and the whole of north Georgia and places like Altllanta. were nearer and more conve- nient pGlces eff refuge than Alabama. The qua "a n'tine against Pensacola was revoked on the 18th of August, ten days after it was issued, because there were no new caSes
 There was no state quara ntine against Atlanlda, altolhulg'h 1t received refugees from BrureiN.ck. and some of them had the fever there; nor against any other place tfat received them. nor was there any interference against local qua ra ntines.',
 MT. Lesser Explains.