Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-02-18
FAVORED NATIONAL SYSTEM
RESULT OF THE QUARANTINE con.
yENTION HELD AT MOBILE.
ANOTHER MEETING WILL Be HELD.
Atlanta, Ga, Selected as the Place-The
First Week In April the Time-For-
eign Nations 20 lie Represented.

A special from Mobile, Ala, says:
The net result of the three days ses-
sion and extended deliberations Of the
quarantine convention in that city is
a square declaration in favor of a ma
tional and uniform quarantine system
that will make impossible another
such disgraceful exhibition as marked
the last yellow fever epidemic in the
southern states.
Under the steady fire Of the friends
of federal control, the opposition
dwindled down until ii was not even
able to summon respectable minority
on the final vote and the majority re.
port of the committee on resolutions
which favored the passage of the
Spooner bill, and was only q very mod
crate Endorsement of a national quar-
antine, was rejected in favor of a more
radical direct expression OF opinion
offered as substitute, and which was
as follows:
Resolved, That it is the sense of
this convention that congress be re-
quested TO provide for a department
of public health as soon as possible.
so. That it is the sense Of this con-
vention that congress should enact
laws to provide for an efficient mari
time quarantine TO be uniform and i'm
partial in its application to the differ
ent commsrcial ports Of this country,
so as to gi$Ao one or more Of them
undue cofnStefcial advantage over the
others to he enforced by the several
state and quarantine or health boards,
II they will undertake to do so, leaving
also to the states the power to pre-
scribe and enforce additional reason
able safeguards Of the health of their
communities, provided that such state
action shall not unreasonably obstruct
commerce.
80, That congress should aid the sever
al states in establishing and maintain
ing uniform, reasonable and efficient
quarantine laws for affecting but not
regulating interstate commerce, leav-
ing 10 each state adequate power to
protect, as it shall deem best, the lives
and health Of its people.
a. That congress shall leave ex-
clusively to the states the regulation
of their purely internal commerce and
the provision of such quarantine or
sanitary laws and regulations they
deem advisable to that end; that in
the framing Of quarantine laws and
regulations and in their enforcement
congress should avail itself of the
learning, experience and ability of
the medical profession in the fullest
measure possible, and especially by
way Of an advisory council"
Another very important action was
taken in the adoption of resolution
calling for a second convention to
gather together the scattered threads
of the one just held and TO adopt
system of state quarantine rules and
regulations that all the south Atlantic
and gulf states could adopt for the
future.
= Another resolution authorized the
secretary to invite to this supplement
tary convention delegates for the Cen
trail and South American states, and
it's adoption means that the second
gathering will be of far greater i'm
portance than the first.
The following we're named as a COM
mittee Of arrangements for the next
meeting which will be held in Atlanta,
Ga, during the first week in April,
1898: Hon. Charles A. Collier, of
Georgia; DR.. Fl. A. Moody, of Alaba-
ma; DR.. F. G.. Renshaw, of Florida;
DR.. H. b. Horlbeck, of South Carolina;
Hon Bat Smith, Of Texas; Mr.. Felix
Torment, of Louisiana; Hon. j. L.
Ludlow, of North Carolina; DR.. II. H.
HARRISON, Of Mississippi.