I think we had better. while we are making this emergent legislation. have some regard to our powers and duties. I very much hope. if this bill shall go to another part of the Congress of the United States. that they will. at all events. take this subject into consideration and see that there is no unseemly and improper conflict created by the bill itself between the State atuthorities and the Federal authorities. If we get up a question of that kind we are going to have trouble about it. and more than we have had oftentimes in the United States. particularly in respect of interstate prohibitions upon migration. immigration. etc.. we shall have the shotgun quarantine. Do we not regaember how the banks of the Mississippi River. and other rivers also and the railroads. have been frequently picketed by men with shotguns in their hands to prevent the comingand going of trains and mails and everything of that sort? Is ourexperience on that subject so indefinite or so very smooth as that we do not remember the trials and troubles we have had upon this question in the United States?
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