The San Francisco call., 1898-06-19
Customs In speCtors
 Must Give Way.
HOW HE WON THE VICTORY
HIS PROTEST ENDORSED BY
 THE TREASURY.
Surveyor Spear and Collector Jackson Are Wearing sackcloth, While St. John Has the
 Nightmare.

The battle which has ragged for some months between Collector Jackson ana Surveyor Spear on one side and United States Quarantine Officer pr. Rosenau on the other has been ended and the doctor is now Cock of the Docks" His sally ing forth to quarantine a vessel is like the stately progress of an Atlantic liner, and the customs officials, and even Chauncey NJ. Su. John are but as humble clam scows in comparison.
 The doctors course in the controversy has been indorsed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and even the Collector of the Port has been obliged to bow his gray hairs in reverence to the doctors suprem- acy. Up to the continuation of the pres ent catastrophe there had always been trouble between the Port Surveyor and the quarantine department. During the controversy between the Federal authori- ties and State Quarantine Officer Chal- mers the Collector and Surveyor heartily espOused the cause of the Federal Quar- antine Officer, and it was expected that when Dr. Chalmers was removed by pro- motion the seven devils of contention would go with him. But it turned out that the places O. the seven Chalmers demons were filled by seVenty-timeS seven devils which had entered the house that had been swept and garnered for Dr. ROSenau.
 Surveyor Spear and Chauncey NJ St. John had hardly taken the oath of office when Dr. Rosenau gave the customs in- spectors to understand that they must not leave vessels which they might have boarded until he gave them permission, otherwise he would insist on their going into quarantine. The Surveyor anu his deputy took the side of the inspectors, and the matter was brought to q head when in the latter part of last March Dr. Rosenau refused to allow Inspector W. J. Shepman to land after having gone on
 Collector Jackson was appealed to and took the part of the Surveyor and his dep- uty. He infromed Dr. Rosenau that his duty as Collector was to see that the du- ties were collected, and that if the bag gage of passengers were allowed to he landed his inspectors would follow it in order to make sure that it did not escape paying its share toward the support of the Government He remarked that ii was a very singular thing that the Fed eral quarantine Officer should have al- lowed the cabin passengers of the PpIgic to land and refused a landing to Inspec- tor Shepman' who might not have been on board more than an hour, and that the doctor had not given a sane reason why ne had acted in that manner The col iector added further by way of coup de grace that II MT Shepman had not re- sented and disobeyed the arbitrary com mand Of the Quarantine Officer he would be recreant to his trust.
 'I will file a protest to Washine+or, and we shall see"
 "I will also file a protest to Washine !on' sald MT Spear, with equal dignity. and We shall See.' '' ~ The protests were sent on, that of the Surveyor being couched in the most court ly English at the command of Denutv surveyor St. John, and that of Collector Jackson being embelished with the cholcest examples of the colonel's rhetoric, softened and relieved by few Machiavellian touches from the pen of Chief Clerk Jerome.
 We shall sec" said Mir St. John.
 We shall sec echoed Mr Jerome.
 This is what they saw:
 Dr. Rosenau sent his protest to Surgeon General Sternberg, gentleman who does not enjoy the acquaintance of Collector Jackson or Surveyor Spear, and in addi- ton to the Belgic episode pr. Rosenau complained that Customs Inspector Richardson had left the good ship Venus without hlS permission; in other words had escaped from quarantine. General Sternberg, who is a doctor sticks to the members and the traditions of his craft closer than Ali Baba forty stuck to one another, and immediately went with his complaint to the Secretary of the Treas ury. The upShot of the conference was that Collector Jackson received a letter from the Secretary informing him that he and the Surveyor were wrong or barking up the wrong tree, and that the customs Inspector must at once be delivered up to Dr. Rosenau to be placed in quarantine and purged of his contempt.
 There was weeping and wailing in camp when the news was told, and it is reported that the floor of the Surveyors office was slippery with bitter tears But the in- evitable not being avoidable, either under civil service rules or otherwise the in- spector was delivered up to the victorious doctor, who landed him in quarantine fumgated him with his blessing and a few kind but unwecome words of counsel and turned him loose again.
 Whenever the doctor gives an order now 1t is obeyed to the letter, but with gnash- ing of teeth and mutterings, not at all like those of King Olaf's men, which were mutterings of prayer.