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2 FUSION GREED AGAIN ANOTHER EVIDENCE OF THE UTTER INCAPACITY OF THE LEGISLATURE. THE QUARANTINE AT WILMINGTON _—— j The Fusion Majority Made the Office Os Quarantine Physician a Political Job to he Randied Around Amongst Politicians—Dr. Curtis Removed Because He Was a Democrat Though His Term of Office Had Not Expired and Dr. Maynard Was Elected. The Fusionists majority in the recent Legislature did.not, in their many exhi bitions of disregard of the public weal, more strikingly show their willingness to subordinate the public good to their insatiate greed for office than in the manner in which they have dealt with the quarantine at the port of Wilming ton. Hardly a day passes without addi tional evidence accumulating, as the acts of the Legislature are reviewed, to dem onstrate the utter incapacity of that body. The quarantine has been established by the State at the port of Wilmington since 1868, under the regulations provi ded in chapter 24, entitled “Health and Quarantine," volume 2nd of the Code. The quarantine at the port of Wilming ton is a matter of State necessity; it is under State regulations; it is paid for by the State and should becontrolled by the State authorities. The quarantine physician heretofore been appoint ed* by the Governor and subject to removal only by him. The introduction of any of the diseases like cholera, small pox, yellow fever, or like contagious dis eases in that port might lead to an epi deroic, not only disastrous to the city of Wilmington, but to the State at large. Our State Board of Health and State Medical Society has exerted its influence at all times to keep up a proper and effi cient quarantine at this port. The Leg islature of 1893 appropriated $5,000 to improve its quarantine, although the fund has not yet been expended. The quarantine physician is charged with the responsibility of prescribing such regula tions as may be necessary for the pro tection of the inhabitants of the State from infectious diseases: he is a State officer. The position is" filled at present, and has been for the past fifteen years by Dr. Wil liam G. Curtis, who resides at Southport, and the quarantine is estab lished at the mouth of the Cape Fear River, where all vessels subject to quar antine are brought to anchor and re quired before proceeding up the river to await the inspection of the Medical offi cer. W'hen it is considered that several hundred vessels enter and clear at the port of Wilmington during the year, hailing_from West India and South American ports, where infectious dis eases so constantly prevail, the absolute necessity and importance of the quaran tine become self evident. The office of quarantine physician is not one that should be bandied around amongst politicians. And yet the Fu sion majority in the Legislature, in deference to the Republican machine at Wilmington, has transferred the selec tion and appointment of the quarantine officer from the Governor, while contin uing the quarantine generally, to a po lice commission made up of Republican party hacks at Wilmington. This it has attempted to do, by the passage of an Act entitled, “An Act to amend the charter of the city of Wilmington." This Act creates a Police Board, to consist of William H. Chadbourn, John R. Melton, Silas P. Wright, John E, Taylor and Frederick B. Rice. The city heretofore has been governed by its Board of A1 dermea and Board of Audit and Fi nance. The Act puts an additional en cumbrance upon the city government in the creation of this police board. It makes the chairman of the police board act as Commissioner of the Sinking Fund. All the officers of the city, in cluding the chief of police, chief of fire department, city clerk and treasurer, city attorney,city physician, harbor mas ter,clerks of markets, policemen, and all persons employed in working the public streets or employed for any purpose, are appointed by this board, and even the street work of the city can be let out by contract only with its concurrence. All salaries are fixed by the concurrent ac tion of the police board and the board of aldermen. The sole and only purpose of the act is to give tontrol of all the offices in the city aud port of Wilmington to the Re publicans. The responsibility for the general management of the city’s affairs are left with the Board of Aldermen, as heretofore constituted. The F. B. Rice referred to above as one of the police commissioners, was the Republican State Senator from New Hauover. John R Melton calls himself a Populist. William H. Chadbourn and Silas P. W T right are local Republicans and John E. Taylor is a n gro Republi can politician. When the board met and organized, it elected Rice, one of its members, city treasurer, and Melton, another one of its members, chief of police, and upon their resigning from the board, it elected to fill the vacancies on their board, F. W. Foster, an unsavory carpet bagger of reeonstructiod days, and Groom, who is a Republican and keeper of a second class bar room. It elected to the impor tant position of City Attorney, a Mr. Sutton, who is a clerk in Judge Russell’s office, having just gotten his license as an attorney, but virtually this meant the election of Russell. John E. Taylor, the negro member of the board, is employed by Rice as his chief assistant in the office of city treasu:»r. So the board divid ed the spoils amongst themselves. These instances are referred to as illus trating the character of the board that by the same Act has been entrusted with the seiaction of the quarantine physician at the mouth of the Gape Fear River. Section 7 of the said Act reads as fol lows: “The police board shall employ some suitable physician, who shall act as medical quarantine officer for the port of Wilmington, and who shall perform all the duties required of such physician by the act of the special session of 1868, Public Laws, chapter 33, page 46, and who shall perform all other such duties of quarantine physician as may be pre scribed by the lawful quarantine ordi nances and quarantine regulations of the City of Wilmington; and the authority granted to the Governor by said act of the Assembly to designate such a phy sician is hereby repealed, aud it shall not be lawful for the public treasurer to pay out to any person actiug under the designation or employment of tho Gov ernor any sum whatever, except for such services as shall be rendered before tho designation or employment of a quaran tine physician by the police board as herein provided.” Section 8 reads as follows: “The act of the General Assembly aforesaid, being chapter 33, page 46, of the Public Laws of the special session of 1868, shall remaiu and continue in full force aud effect, except as altered by section seven (7) of this act.” The section of the Code, (2913) which this act seeks to amend, provides: “It shall be the duty of the Governor to desig nate some physician of experience who shall act as medical quarantine officer for the above station.” referring to the station at the mouth of the Cape Fear River, who “shall be removable at the pleasure of the Governor.” It will be observed that the laws es tablishing aud governing the quarantine remain and continue in full force and effect, except as to the manner of ap pointing the quarantine officer, which is changed from the Governor, who as the head of the State, ought properly to ap point to this local police board, who have not and ought to have anything to do with the State quarantine. Here, then, is a bold purpose upon the part of rhe Fusion legislature, at the dictation of local political bosses to in terfere with an established quarantine system of thirty years standing, which heretofore has been under the responsi ble direction of the Governor, aud to place it in the hands of a local irrespon sible board of machine politicians, mere ly to provide an office for one of the Fu sion henchmen. How has this board ex ercised its power? Dr. William G. Curtis is an experi enced and able physician, who has had special observation and knowledge of the quarantine station for fifteen years. With limited means at hand to prevent the introduction of infectious diseases and a quarantine equipment acknowl edged to be inadequate, he has yet suc ceeded during his encumbency of thii office over the period of time mentioned in preventing the introduction at this port of any of the epidemics and infec tious diseases. He has so managed and watched the quarantine that he has pre vented the passing of any vessel, in fected with disease, and prevented the introduction of any case of contagion. This counts for nothing, however, with such men as compose the Police Board of Wilmington, because Dr. Curtis has the distinguished merit of being a Dem ocrat. He came to this State in the ’4O or ’sos, with letters of introduction from the great Democratic Presi dent, Franklin Pierce, and has bien an unswerving adherent to this party since his long residence in this State. He settled at Southport, aud has lived there ever since, enjoying the respect, alike of his profession and of the best people of the Cape Fear section. The Police Board addressed Dr. Cur tis a letter notifying him that he had been removed from the position of Quar antine Physician, for the Port of Wil mington, N. C., the removal to take ef fect on the Ist., day of June, 1895, and that Dr. A. A. Maynard, had been elect ed to the position and would assume the duties on the said date. Dr. Maynard, whom the Board seeks to place in this office, was the Populist candidate in the campaign of ’92 for Congress in the Sixth Congressional Dis trict. He is an up country doctor, who is not distinguished in his profession, and who is known chiefly as a Populist politician. If he is permitted to hold this position, he comes to it without knowledge of its requirements, without experience aDd without fitness tor its important duties, and his incumbency of the office would be a menace to the health and interest ot the State at large. Fortunately, he will not be inducted into this office unless the courts so determine. Dr. Curtis holds his commission from the Governor for four years from the 31st day of January, 1893. His term of appointment does not ex pire until the 31st day of Jan uary, 1897. The Legislature did not abolish his office, but expressly contin ued it, and transferred the appointment from the Governor to the Police Com mission, and prohibited the State Treas urer from paying any compensation to the appointee of the Governor. We are informed that our courts have uniformly held in this Stale that a man cannot be deprived of his office by legislative re moval. His office may be abolished, but if the office continues, he is entitled to enjoy it during the term of his ap pointment, unless removed as in this case by the Governor for good cause. Dr. Curtis will make the contest and not surrender his office until our Supreme Court shall so determine. In their greed for office, the Fusion legislature has done more to involve the State in litigation than any half dozen legislatures ever previously assembled. It measures up to the reconstruction legislature of ’69, and this is another instance of its disregard of public inter est and its creation of complications in the administration of public affairs. Will the disclosures of the evil of their doings ever end ? Marvelous Results. From a letter written by Rev. J. Gun derman, of Dimondale, Mich., we are permitted to make this extract: “I have no hesitation in recommending Dr. King’s New Discovery, as the results were almost marvelous in the case of my wife. While I was pastor of the Baptist church at Rives J unction she was brought down with pneumonia succeeding La Grippe. Terrible paroxysms of coughing would last hours with little interruption and it seemed as if she could not sur vive them. A friend recommended Dr. King’s New Discovery; it was quick in its work and highly satisfactory in re sults.” Trial bottles free at John Y. Macßae’s drug store. Regular size 50c i and sl. The News and Observer, Wednesday, June 19 1P95. AN INTEREBING INC IDENT. A Klml of C ivic Succession Kept of President* ot ihc Dialectic. Special to the News and Observer Chapel Hill, N. O. June 17. On Monday night of the commence ment week at Chapel Hill at a meeting of the Dialectic Society, Kemp I*. Bat tle was called on for a speech. In the course of his remarks he called attention to the fact, that he joined t he society just fifty years ago, and chat 47 years ago he had tho honor to be its president. (>n the occasion of the dedication of its new hall tho first president of 1795, James Mebano, of Caswell, was present and he and Dr. Battle jointly presided over tho society. After Dr. Battle took his seat Mr. A. B. Andrews, Jr., moved that ho he be requested again to preside jointly witn tho president then in the elmir Mr. llarlee Mc- Call, of Statesville. The motion unanimously prevailed and t hus at the centennial of the Dialectic Society this venerable body had as a presiding officer, one who had sat alongside its president of one hundred years ago. It was re quested that Mr. McCall return to Chapel Hill in 1945 and transmit the Presiden tial succession to the young chairman of that day. James Mebano was a most worthy man, once Speaker of the House of Com mons. He was a son of Alexander Me bane, a member of Congress, and ouo of the commissioners who selected the site of the University. The excellent Giles Mebano, once Speaker of the Senate, was a son of James Mebane. Health AH Gone Unequal to Family Duties-No Appetite Hood’s Sarsaparilla Cave Strength and Courage to Work. “I was in such oondition I could not walk •veil about the house to attend to houso- fij Is i P f fi&L r !?* t. mmm ■ /'wjt g ..:. -. w ... tin. * I could stand U|-*H. X. V. 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