Mr. CHANDLER. I hold in my hand a very able document prepared by distinguished physicians and surgeons who have had great experience in regard to the cholera, from which I shall merely read an extract or 2, as I do not wish to occupy the time of the Senate, my desire being to get a vote. In this paper they give a number of instances showing the character of the disease. Let me read from it: “ The ship Swantou, from Havre. arrived at NewOrleans up: the 11th of DBeou.iber, 1848 9 days after the NewYork arrived at Staten Island, With 280 cuiicrants on board. 13 passengers hnd died with eholera on the passage. NO quarantine was instituted, and the ship cameto the wharf. The day after the arrival of the passengersin the city the cholera broke out and se amsepideimo. “.The Atlanta. From Harry, arrived atNsw York on the 2dof November last. with a large numberof Ger man emigrants: many had died of cholera on the passage. the diseixsewas confined exclusivelyto the steerugs passengers. A strict qparuntiuq prevented th“ent ntrot notionof the diseaseinto the city. will be recollect d that the steamship England put into Halifax on the 9th of last month vnth some 1200 passengers and a crew of 100 men. with nlnrge number of Gcrinan nssen gcrswho had come from placos infected With cholera: 160 cases of the (IBM occurred onboard.andiifty donthsdnring the assago. Giving to strict quarantine at Quebec, the disease was checkedthere, and the ship is now at quarantine in NewYork, the passengers having been landed after undergoing the usual quaranune." The cholera has been in NewYork harbor since the 2d day of last November, 6 months and a half, all the time, and it has never yet landed. There was one case of what was called sporadic cholera, produced by circumstances connected with that particular case. but not a single case of Asiatic cholera has landed. The Senfrom Vermont [Ma Emwups] brought a very important fact to the knowledge of the Senate the other day in hisremarks, and that was that by a strict quarantine in the Italian ports the cholera passed by the whole of Italy, and was finally introduced into Italy across the Alps from France, where the quarantine was not so strict. It is an old saying that those who know nothcing fear nothin. I happen to know just enough of cholera to Tlesire to keep it down in NewYork bay if we can. I do not know thatquar antine regulations will keep it there, but having kept it there for 6 months and 14 da s I hope they may keep it there for 6 mont s and 14 days longer. The object of this measure is to establish a uniform system of quarantine. The cholera has been held in NewYork harbor by the NewYork quarantine laws. There are no quaran tine laws in NewJersey, and it could he landed tomorrow morning, and is read through NewJersey, and brought into TiewYork through erse City but, for the care and vigilance, of the Nhw York quarantine officers. In Boston there are no quarantine laws, and the Bostonians have sent a circular asking shippers to bring theirships to Boston because there are no quarantine laws there, and no trammels upon commerce. it is well known to all that it is utterly useless to enforce a strict quarantine in NewYork and leaveall the adacent ports open. If the cholera were to lan in Boston it could be transported to NewYork in 8 hours. If it were to land in Jersey City it could be transported there in 30 minutes. The object of this measure, as I have said, is to establish a uniform system of quarantine, and I simply ask for a vote upon it. I believe that if the disease has been kept in NewYork harbor for 6 months and 14 days without landing, it.may, under a rigid system of uarantiue, be kept there longer and perhaps orever. But, sir, suppose through our nonaction, or through our injudicious action, the cholera should land and a 100,000lives he lost, I certainly should feel that there was a weight of responsibility and of guilt resting upon me if I did not press this measure for favorable action by the Senate. I now simply ask that a vote may be taken and the proposition adopted. As to the question of the constitutional right and power of this Government in the premises, while I do not question the sincerity of my friendfrom Maine and others who see a cow stitutional obstacle to passing a railroad or a quarantine bill, I have no such difficulties and apprehensions as they seem to entertain. I do not think we shall injure the Constitution if we keep out the cholera, and l be e the Senate will pass the resolution in the orin proposed by the ComCommerce.