All the powersof the State governments should be put in motion to prevent its introduction. and all the powers of the National Government should be exerted for the same purpose. To be specific. I believe that the Treasury Department should. without a days delay. promulgate rules and regulations prescribing the quarantine methods to be adopted to prevent the introduction of disease by sea. which rules and regulations should govern the immigrants for a certain period on the other side of the water before they take ship. should prescribe the regimen to be adopted and the precautions to be resorted to on shipboard during the voyage. and should also provide the sanitary measures to be taken by way of quarantine or otherwise in our own ports upon the arrival of the vessels. I believe. moreover. that after the Treasury Department have formulated such regulations as existing law authorizes. they should be given by this bill. or any other bill which may be needful. all the further power and all the additional authority which they may ask for or of which they can by any possibility make usR to keep the scourge of cholera from either entering the country or spreading after it has made its entry. Even further. I belie re that when the Treasury Department has done all that it can now do. and when the bill which the Senator from Tennessee has reported from the Committee on Epidemic Diseases shall have become a law and shall have been acted on. it will still be expedient for this Congress to go further and to pass Senate bill 3513. which has been reported from the Committee on Immigration. for the entire suspension of the admission of alien immig~rants into the United States for one year. Mr. President.
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