Speech #590057293

I have no doubt that interstate trains will be interfered I with and that interstate passengers will be inconvenienced In times of yellowfever panic and excitement. The illustration of the unwarranted interference by State officers with interstat6 trains most frequently given in the cloakroom and referred to here on- the floor of the House in this debate and paraded almost constantly in that part of the press most actively supporting this bill is the case referred to by the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. RANSDMEs. where a train load of refugees from Lake Providence. La.. were stopped at the border of Arkansas and denied permission to cross the State. Strange to relate. this instance is held up to this House and to the country as furnishing alone sufficient reason and ample justification for the adoption of section 7 of this bill. and yet we are assured jby its advocates that section 7 relates only to interstate trains which. to quote the bill. "may have been discharged and properly certified in accordance with the regulations of the Public Health and MarineHospital.