The object of the bill is the exclusion from the United States of contagious or infections diseasesany vessel. goods. or passengers after entering port or already within the United States may be. and will be. subject to the local health boards. if any exist. The sanitary measures contemplated by the bill apply to vessels arriving from without before the vessel. passengers. or merchandise can ili any way become subject to State or municipal health rules or regulations. Our friends from California are here seeking to arrest the importation into this country of Chinese immigrants. But pray. if the treaty with China authorizing such immigration were annulled. would the Genoral Governmen have power to regulate such an appendago of our foreign commerce and at the same time have no power to shut out .diseases which our commerce brings into this country ? I notice one of the Senators from Kentucky the other day presented to the Senate a petition from the cattlebreeders of that State. asking the Government to protect their interests against the importation into this country from foreign ports of diseased cattle. It is right. for what power has Kentucky to protect its interests in this particular at the port of New York ?
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