Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — PECK WILL NOT INTERFERE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PECK WILL NOT INTERFERE.

Refuse* to Call Troop* to Enforce Sanitary Laws In Milwaukee. Gov. Peck, of Wi consin, promptly ended the m vement to have the State troops cal ed out to enforce sanitary

regulations in Milwaukee. The Governor took the ground that the municipal authorties had not exhausted the’.r powers in trying to enforce the laws relative to small-pox. and that until the police and the Sheriff s forceshad been used to the extent of their powers he could not < a 1 t ut the militia to perform

guard duty or enforce a quarantine, 'rhe Governor came to this decision after a consultation with Chief of Police Janssen, who assured him that the police stood ready to enforce the laws whenever appealed to by the health orncers, and that in every ease where the police had made au effort to tea that patients were taken to the hospital they had been successful. The Governor also learned that the Sheriff had not been called upon at all, excepting in a general way. The Governor then appeared before the State Board of Health, in session at the tdister Hotel, and made known his decision. The entire police force will be us-e • if necessary, and the polio men will be orde ed to use their clubs and make numerous ar ests of rioters. In case this so ee is not suff c’ent the She iff will be c lied upon, and special deputies sworn in. It will be the policy to qua antine infec‘ed houses wherever possible, and not t ansport to the isolation hospital excepting where the quarantine would be impossible There a e now ov r 22 > ca es in the city.

GOVERNOR PECK