The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-05
BILL IS IN SOME DANGER
Ability of Federal Government to En- force Quarantine is Now Generally Admitted-Gossip From New
 Orleans.

should it get in again. It seems that the composition of the joint congressional committee to whose mercles the framing of a bill having as It's object the broad eni@@ fl the scope of the public health --au marine hospital service operations, is a long way from being reassurng, and 1t is feared that the bill will be weighted down with some sort of a mllstone be- fore 1t gets before Congress.
 At Havana, Panama, Vera Cruz, on the Mexican frontier and elsewhere the fed eral government has made progress against yellow fever never before made, and, recognizing that fact, the republic of Panama has now requested President Roosevelt. through the marine hospital service, to take charge of the health af- fairs at Bocas Del Toro. At New Or leans Natchez and one or two other southern points last summer the federal government demonstrated it's ability over all other authorities to control the disease and yet the government was not called Tn to take charge until after the disease had gained immense headway.
 The proposition advocated by the Chal- tanooga health convention, as expressed in it's practically unanimously adopted res olution on the subject, was that Congress broaden the scope of the marine hospllai service in order to enable the federal gov ernment to render maximum assistahe through it's superior organization, dlscl- pline, and unlimited resources, to eile south when needed in the fight aeaiiiSO yellow fever. In other words 10 oo loi the south just what 1t has done Tor lhr foreign countries. There is no question of states rights involved. The govern ment would not interfere with local al- fairs other than to enforce sclenthc le5 lilstions for the prevention or the spiee" of the disease, compel the prompt porting of all cases and the lhlheala .e screening of the same. and' m iaee' Ho nothing but that which is good Tor the people. 4,,o Nyeu,
 This is the course advocated by the New Orleans Health association and by hosC southern men who have given the laaleei serious and conscientious thought.
 Mallory is Avowed Enemy.
 The chairman of the congressional com ,oittee which will frame the bill is Sena- tor Mallory, an avowed enemy ol lIe marine hospital service. Among the mem bers are Senator Foster, political enemy of Governor Blanchard, ana It Was tie latter who led the fight for federal aiu' Ctn1hprSOn or IeAdHt NiiO NOAANA' bealth authorities of his own state SUI 6cient 10 their own needs; and Geofgla man whose sentiments are not known, C'oneressman John Sharp Williams on ,,,boTo inc people of the south have relled O., inc success of a federal quarantine hill, is merely a member or the eoii'ini fec and most probably represents the m nority view Several sanltarlans haNe aa nounced their intention of writing srohs O. al annnrpSSmen uIBiuk AAAN framine and passage of an adequate pili, ana thev have suggested that all olnels who are interested in the matter do hNo wise. -...o,, faIl to
 should the southern congressman iali 9 t9 secure the desired legislation ana shou,u another yellow fever epidemic colie 4,o dist,1rb the south again next summer, i, a,o ccn eressional committee in whose gehlle cbarga this great responsibility no" rasts will be held politically respohslpIe, s . canvas of northern, eastern anu ,,.astern oongressmen and senators has Ie- ,,ealed avery handsome majority iaNoli li.s any appropriations and eonsressioial .l,as, ne which the south may ask TOT ..a as a i
 of abating the yellow fever menace
 Mississippi's Anti-option Bill
 r.n,a many another measure too radical fin ifs nature and doing lnJury aiiNe ,ato good and bad, the defeat or the e,, anti-option bill in the House or t'epi p,'.,', totives was scarcely d matter or suiP ie t tha conservative cotton men or MS sissinni and in New Orleans, the latlet heinp especially interested by reason oI +ba fact that they maintain an eNlensiVo svstem of exchanges In Mlsslsslppl es well as in other states In the liiiiiie south The Boddie bill' while dinieu "S inc irresponsible bucket shops ihaee i,' distinction and included legitimate LII @ of craze wire houses in It's prohipi0Ho s
 of S25. OoO per year and the House iolloWihs the advice of the ways and means eoiii ,,1ittee nron,ptly defeated the measure.
 Tine proposition now resolves ltsef lhto +ba introduction of a bill which Will place a reasonable and just tax upon nsthe ooia fide brokerage houses, while the mere en forcement of existing laws would drive the fiy-by-night bucket shops out ol eAo state. or their operators into Jali' Ns~ Orleans concerns are heavily lhleieseeo in the legitimate operations and they one and all approve any legislation whlen would place their business upon iesas status and at cost which would not prohibit them from doing buslness' IT, however. the tax assessed is so large that the commissions charged customers aio increased in proportion, the business WH' become prohibitive for the reason that customers could not afford the cost, anu in this manner, be prevented Aioli iO6iNA mate hedging on contracts, and leave the state of Mississippi and her cotton inter ests open to the depredations or pear operators in New York, market nat urally antagonistie to New Orleans, which is as naturally bull market and m terested in upholding the price or cot ton. ,,,
 One idea, advanced by Secretary WI. II. Woods of the Mississippi division or the Southern Cotton association, seems to meet with special favor, pr. Woods advocates a reasonable license tax on the brokerage houses, the proceeds to go to the Agricultural college, and thus form a permanent and considerable endowment to that institution and thereby beneht the present and future agricultural inter- ests of the state of Mississippi.
 Cannibas at Large.
 Half a hundred Igorrote cannibals, Win terlng at Athletic park created gen eral stampede last Monday by escaping from their quarters and scattering doWh Tulane avenue half nude and utterlns fearful grunts and cries. Believing that the death of their chief Pue-eu-un. nau left d ghost in charge of the premises, the little man-eaters fled in terror anu