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I do not quarrel with the distinguished chairman of the Committee on Epidemic Diseases as to the view he takes of this bill. but simply wish to suggest to him that he ought to reverse theviews he announced on the bill to establish a national sanitarium. Tuberculosis has destroyed in this country during the last twenty years a hundred times more people than cholera and yellow fever combined. and hence. in my judgment. has a superior claim for legislation by Congress. After the bills relating to quarantine and immigration have been considered. I propose to ask action upon the sanitarium bill. which stands adversely reported by the Committee on Epidemic Diseases. Mr.