The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-10
Blanchard Urges Federal Con-
 tOI of Health Matters
VlROAMAN ON OTHER SIDE
Results of the Days Discussion In Chattanooga We're Not Formulated In Final Recommendations
 Prominent Men Attend.

Chattanooga November 9.-The quar-
 antine question was the principal topic
 of discussion at the southern conference
 on quarantine and immigration trough
 three busy sessions today and tonight
 But little variation from uniformity or
 opinion favoring federal control of mari-
 time quarantine was heard
 The government control of interstate
 quarantine, however, provoked wide
 divergence in the discussion. Governor
 Blanchard of Louisiana stirred the con-
 vention to high pitch of interest by
 his unqualified advocacy of federal con
 trol of all health matters, maritime for eign and interstate. The doctrine of states rights which had been promptly and fre-
 ouently mentioned in previous debate, he
 declared, was not involved in the matter
 under discussion He insisted the right to such control was inherent in the ieo- eral government under the provisions ol the constitution
 This view opposed directly the posi,ioh taken by Governor Vardaman or MS sissippi by Congressman Richardson o1 Alabama and Senator Mallory or fior- ida and others. The results or the uay T discussion were not formulated Tn nha4 | recommendations. Nearly 300 Delegates Present. | Almost 300 delegates representing tour- | teen southern states faced Governor Johs | I. Cox when he called to order the soutn- | ern conference on quarantine and immi- grafton. Present at the opening sessions l of inc convention were Governor John l. | cox of Tennessee, N. c. Blanchard or | ,ouisiana. J. E. Vardaman of Mississippi | R R. Glenn of North Carolina, D. '.
 uevward. South Carolina. and A. J. Mon- tapre of Virginia. Governors Broward Of Florida. Terrell of Georgia and Dawson of West Virginia were delayed until later in
 the day.
 | Louisiana led the states In the size or
 her representation with sixty delegates;
 Alabama had 25, Mississippi 20, Georgia 1o | Senators J. B. Frazier of Tennessee ana | Stephen Mallory of Florida. eighteen con gressmen from the southern states sur
 geon General Wyman of the marine hos
 pital service. and other prominent medi-
 cal authorities were on hand.
 | The immense Auditorium was handsome | ly decorated with the national colors ana presented most attractive appearance. Explains Object or Mceting' | Governor Cox in calling the convention | to order, explained the object of the gath- ering to be to prevent the coming to the south of the pauper and criminal classes | from Europe which now are flooding tho west and northwest. Also to provide for | uniform legislation by the southern states which should have the approval or the l national Congress and thus have the force l of constitutional law. so that d citizen go- | ing to any part of the south In times or epidemic should know exactly what con- l ditions he would meet.
 | An invocation by the Rev. Luther Free man, pastor of the First Methodist | church. was followed by addresses Of | welcome by Senator James B. Frazier. | Tennessee; Mayor William l.. Frierson of | Chattanooga and by Lapsley G. Walker, | editor of the Chattanooga Times. | Senator Frazier advocated strongly the | federal control of maritime quarantine, | suggesting that if infection from foreign | sources could be kept from our shores the | more difficult question of interstate quar- antine would be simpifed and possibly | eliminated from the problem. He desired 1 as new citizens only such immigrants as | would appreciate the value of citizenship | and add to the greatness of the southern | commonwealths.
 | Governor Vardaman Replies First. | Governor yardaman, who made the first |
 was received with prolonged applause. | There was no question, he declared, Of | the possibility of keeping yellow fever out | of the south He stated his idea to be that 1 the absolute control of all ports should be vested in the federal govern | ment.
 | Lane Favors Restriction. l "If infection be kept out of the entry ports there will be no danger of infec- | I m uyi ip0 fp
 surrender to the federal government in l times of epidemics, any other time the | control of the affairs of Mississippi. I be- | lleve in the good old democratic doctrine. | that the powers of government have their
 source in the consent of the governed. The tendency of the times Is toward the
 concentration of authority at Washington. | The respect for the pride and importance | and power of puivate citizenship is retro | grading The greatness of the state con- | sists not in the variety and value of her | material resources, but in the moral and | intellectual characteristics of the men and | women who form this citizenship l want | to warn this convention against taking
 any steps which will tramp upon the au- | tonomy of our states l believe in the doctrine of state rights"
 | Regarding the subject of immigration,
 Governor Vardaman sald NO country
 ever needed home making, home owning |
 states today Negro labor. which hith-
 erto has performed the work in our cotton
 and cane fields Is becoming absolutely
 worthless It's place must be- filled. I
 would rather wait let our fields lie idle
 for time, than to fill up our land with
 men who are not capable of understand
 ing our institutions. who cannot be assim-
 Hated and absorbed into citizenship" Charles P Lane, president of the Ala
 bama Commercial association, in spirit
 ed response to the welcome spoke mainly on the matter Immigration. He said: | We have fought out this race question.
 we understand the negro and he under stands us, and we don't want another
 element coming in here that can disturb l the relations between the white man and
 the negro"
 | He advocated restrictions upon immi-
 grafton which should bar the low classes | coming to the United States.
 l The appointment of committees on cro-