President. I desire unanimous consent to say that the two bills referred to are the last bills on the Calendar. One is a bill for the suspension of immigration for one year. reported from the Committee on Immigration. and the other is a bill reported by the Senator from Tennessee . from the Committee on Epidemic Diseases. granting additional quarantine powers and imposing additional duties upon the Marine Hospital Service. It would seem that if there were any bills here that are entitled to preference these are the bills. They are urgent in their character. They represent two different methods of dealing with apprehended cholera. one the total suspension of immigration for one year and the other increased quarantine powers to the executive branch of the Government. I also understand that the Executive. without additional legislative authority. proposes to issue within a few days regulations concerning quarantine which will have an important bearing upon the subject under discussion. I am willing that the bill reported by the Senator from Tennessee should be first considered. and to allow the bill providing for suspension of all immigration for one year to remain until after the legislation proposed by that committee shall be considered and disposed of. but I do thinkand I appeal to the Senator from Tennessee to make a statement on this subjectthat the measures which are to be adopted by the present Congress to prevent. or calculated to prevent. the introduction of cholera into this country during the present year should not be delayed by any business now pending before the Senate.
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