Should the measure become a law it is likely that the machinery which it sets up may first be called into play to stay the spread of that disease. Yet this does not necessarily follow. Certain climatic changes may have already taken place which will effectually save the country from a repetition of last years disaster. The next enemy of health to be met and thrust back by national quarantine may be Asiatic cholera. It now prevails abroad. This is a general measure intended to protect the country. so far as Congress may do so. from the introduction and spread of those dangerous. contagious diseases that so frequently come to desolate our homes and destroy our prosperity.