People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — VOTED FOR QUARANTINE. [ARTICLE]

VOTED FOR QUARANTINE.

The Measure Passes the House in a Modified Form—Provisions of the Bill* Washington, Jan. 24.—The house has passed the bill for a national quarantine as amended in committee of the whole. The vote by tellers was 138 to 29. No effort was made to secure the yeas and nays. [The bill as it passed the house requires all vessels clearing for the United States to obtain from the consul or vice consul at the nort of departure a bill of health. The president is authorized to detail a medical officer to serve in the office of the consulate at any foreign port for the purpose of funnishing information and giving the bills of health. The marine hospital sbrvice shall cooperate with state and municipal boards of health in the enforcement of the rules of such boards, and the regulations prescribed by the secretary of the treasury to prevent the introduction of contagious and in fectious dieeases into the United States from foreign countries from one state into another, but nothing shall be construed to warrant a federal official in relaxing state rules. On the arrival of an infected vessel at any port not provided with proper facilities for treatment the secretary of the treasury may remand the vessel to the nearest national or other quarantine.! ,