The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-02
The Formal Proclamation Issued Yesterday. DIR. SANDERS INTERVIEWED Explains Action Of State
 Board of Health. Relay Camps are Being Established-No Through Passenger Trains from Louisiana Permitted to Come
 Into Alabama.
,R. SANDERS INTERVIEWED

The rigid quarantine which has been for four days enforced against Louisi- ana by the Alabama Health Board was yesterday afternoon legalixed to per lection by a proclamation issued at a late hour by Governor Jelks. The proclamation. like the recommendations of the State Board, extends the area un- der quarantine to include the entire State of Louisiana
 Dr. W. H. Sanders, State Health Of- ficer, arrived in Montgomery yesterday morning and went to the office of the Governor to confer with Hon. J. Kirk Jackson, the Governors private secre- tary. The conference touched on the necessity for a proclamation to support the order of the State Board in view of the probability that without proc lamation there would be some distrust of the law. The urgency for putting all of Louisiana under the ban was ar gued with the Governor and the formal declaration was made yesterday after noon about 5 o'clock
 The proclamation Is in the form of an amendment to the original which was issued several days ago and amend ed also prior to yesterday, so that the total territory from which people are excluded consists of Louisiana and all the towns along the Louisville and Nashville Railroad between the borders of Alabam and Louisiana
 Tere is the proclamation as now in effect:
 Proclamation Amended by the Gov- rrnOr.
 Whereas. It Is made to appear that yellow fever exists in the State or Lou isiana; and,
 Whereas, The State Board of Health recommends quarantine to the extent hereafter stated as necessary to the protection of the people of Alabama,
 Now. therefore, I, Wm. D. Jelks. Gov ernor of the State of Alabama, pursu- ant to the authority in me vested by "An Act to Provide a System Of Quar- antine for this State" approved rep ruary 23rd, 1899, do hereby proclaim, declare and establish the following quarantine measures against persons in the State of Louisiana and any otfer places in which yellow fever exists, to- wit: No person from the State or Lou isiana or from any other places III which yellow fever exists, shall be per mitted to enter the limits of the State of Alabama, except on through traihs destined beyond this State.
 This quarantine shall be conducted through the State Board of Health, which Is charged with the duty of en- forcing such measures not inconsistent with the Constitution of the State ana the laws thereof, as 1t may deem neces- sary to that end.
 In testimony whereof, 1 have here unto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Alabama to be ar fixed at the CapitoI at Montgomery. this the 1st day of August, 1905, and Of the Independence of the United States the 130th. w. D. Jelks,
 Rv the Governors: Governor.
 E. R. McDavid,
 Secretary of State.
 pr. Sanders, in an interview yester- day, explained his action as President of the State Board of Health in order ing the quarantine against Louisiana Saturday without waiting for the Gov ernor's proclamation. He said 1t had never entered his mind that he was ex- ceeding his authority. He sincerely be- lieyes. he said, that by broad inter- pretation of the State quarantine stat ute, which he himself drafted for the Legislature of 1899. the Board has the right to extend the quarantine after IL if once proclaimed by the Gocernor. T do not deny that by means of split ting hairs the quarantine the Board ordered should have been supported by proclamation" said pr. Sanders T dictated the provisions of the quaran- tine law as it now exists and l have never doubted that the Board has the right to modify or add to the area of the quarantine. I expected the procli- nation of the Governor ever since l ordered all people out of Louisiana to be excluded from the State.
 After being able to get away from Mobile I hurried to Montgomery and finding that still no proclamation had been issued I went straight to my of- fee and looked over the law on the