Mr. GRIMES. I understood from the Senfrom Wisconsin that this bill conferred the power on this commission, these 3 Secretaries, to establish quarantine reulations similar to those they have in NewYork, although not to so great an extent perhaps, because to such an extent it might not be necessary, any where on this continent. The bill does not require that the Government shall adoptthe garantine officers of the State of NewYork. h, no; they are to be new appointees, appointed under this law. The organization of the city of NewYork or of the State of NewYork is to be entirely ignored and is ignored by this bill. We are to have another batch of office holders, innumerable in number if it is to be extended uniformly over the country according to the idea of the Senfrom Wisconsin, which I understand is the idea of the committee. I have not any such fear of the cholera asto induce me to vote for a bill like this. I believe that it will be attended with infinitely worse consequences to the country than the most malignant type of cholera that ever prevailed upon this continent. As my friend near me says, one thing would certainly result from it, and that is that it would give the cholera to the Treasury of the U.S. if it should be enacted into a law. [Laughter] Mr. President, it may perhaps be owing to the fact that I have no very great fears of the cholera, having had some experience in regard to it from having lived in a town with it 3 years, that I am not willing to break down all the barriers around the Treasury, which some gentlemen seem to be disposed to do. There is nothing, according to the provisions of this bill, as I understand it, that it does not authorize the 3 Secretaries to do. Itrust that the time has gone by when we are going to be called upon to legislatein the mannerin which this bill proposes. During the prevalence of the war we rew to ourselves here as the federal Government authority which had been considered doubtful by all and denied by many of the statesmen of this country. That time. it seems to me, has ceased and ought to cease. Let us go back to the original condition of things, and allow the States to take care of themselves as they have been in the habit of taking care of themselves.