The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-11
NATIONAL CONTROL
CONFERENCE AT CHATTANOOGA
 ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS.
On Question of Quarantine, 1t fs Opin- ion That the Matter should be Placed In Hands of G0v-
 crnment.


 Chattanooga, Nov. 1O.-Fourteen Southern States today through their Governors, Senators. Congressman and other representative citizens made
 known their wishes as to the relations of the State to the federal government
 in the matters of quarantine and of im-
 migration. After a discussion of two days the Southern Conference on Quar-
 antine and Immigration ignored the construction of the doctrine of States $
 rights, which many eloquent orators
 had sought to apply to the questions at
 issue, and met the problems in a busi- ness-like manner and with plan which only experience can show how to amend
 with profit.
 The questions of immigration was
 overshadowed in all the discussions by
 that of quarantine. From the first the three hundred delegates seemed to
 agree on the constitutional. right and
 duty of the federal government to con
 trol maritime and foreign quarantine
 Through all the conference spirited de-
 bate was almost uninterrupted as to the
 constitutionality of federal control of
 interstate health matters.
 Governor Vardaman. of Mississippi was a firm advocate of the construction of the principle of State rights which should prevent the interference of federal authority in State affairs. Gov ernor Blanchard, of Louisiana. declared that the doctrine of State rights could have no place in the argument.
 Duty of Federal Government. He insisted that the federal constitu- tion plainly makes it the duty of federal government to exercise such functions Both leaders had many followers. 0raSau1an Jahu Gharn Williams whose late appearance in the confer ence prevented his participation in the earlier debate. poured oil upon the troubled waters, and as Chairman of the
 Quarantine Committee, which for mulated the resolutions upon that branch of the conference work present ed report which was adopted with but one dissenting vote, that of Senator Mallory of Florida. The resolutions follow:
 Whereas, the experience of recent years and especially the experience of this year, have demonstrated beyond cavil that the house mosquito, known as stegomyia fasciata. is the sole known cause of yellow fever premises and have demonstrated the futility and nuisance of many anticipated methods of quaran- tine hitherto resorted to, and the wis dom and necessity. in the interest of lHS puOliE IhC PdOAAS OAoA ness of uniform regulations to prevent the importation into the United States of yellow fever and its spread from State to State in the unfortunate event of it's introduction; now therefore be It.
 The Resolutions Adopted.
 Resolved, That we. delegates from Alabama. Arkansas. Florida. Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Mis- souri, Maryland, North Carolina. South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. hereby respectfully request the Senate and House of Representa- lives in Congress assembled to enact law whereby coast maritime and nation al frontier quarantine shall be placed exclusively under the control and juris- diction of the United States Govern ment. and that matters of interstate quarantine shall be placed under tic control and Jurisdiction of the United States Government, acting In co-opera- tion with the several State Boards of Health.
 We furthermore respectfully request that Congress shall make adequate ap- propriation to enforce and perfect the objects of this memorial and to stamp out as nearly as practicable the yellow fever carrying mosquito in its breed or living places in the United States, and by negotiating arrangements with the governments of Central and South America and the West India Islands. in places where the said mosquito has its