Mr. HARRIS. War on the cholera, as the Senfrom NewHampshire an s. I think that is it. I think that is thei ea; I think that is the principle, if there is any principle about it, on which this bill is frame. Now, sir, it will not do at all. This bill is unconstitutional obviously. There is no power in Congress to pass a law like this. Look at it, Mr. President. What are we attempting to do? Take my own State. We have in NewYork, I think, a very efficient, if it is not a uniform, system of uarantine regulation. We have Within the (last year established there a Board of Health, and upon that board there are some of the most eminent phy sicians in the State, able and efficient men, who are doing their duty with great fidelity. It hap pens that this board does not provide for all the doctors that are in NewYork. There are some who do not happen to be employed in carrying on this great work of unrantinc, and of course they can suggest a etter mode of doing the thing, and we have it in this resolution. We have there also a board of officers called commissioners of quarantine, who are actively engaged in the performance of their duty, for whose service a very large up ropnation was made by our Legislature, with which we were able, in November last, to grapple with the cholera. A ship came from Havre treighted with cholera, with a large number of cases on board; but they were a Is to take care of it, and to keep it out of the city. We had npretty rigid quarantine there, we thought. Then we have an efficient health officer with a sufficient number of assts. On the whole, we have got a pretty fair system of quarantine. Now, what does this resolution propose to do 7 To set aside the whole of that system, and take the whole power into the hands of the General Government, and to set the SecyWar, with the cooperation of the SecyNavy and the SecyTreasury and the Commander in Chief of the Army and Na, guarding the harbor of NewYork, and all Ifie other harbors of the country. If it was not so serious a matter, I should regard it as very ridiculous. It is a thing utterly impracticable; it cannot be done. It is said by those medical gentlemen who are endeavoring to frame this thing that it is very important to have it uniform. I hend that apprethat is in itself entirely impracticable. You cannot adopt a uniform system of quarantine. Each harbor must take care of its own quarantine. I am entirely opposed to the measure.