Iron County register., 1903-12-10


auxiliary naval cruisers and naval reserves.
While such a measure is desirable in any
event, il Is especially desirable at this time,
in view Of the fact that our present gov
ernmental contract for ocean mail with the
American line will expire in 1905. Our ocean
mail act was passed in 1891. In 1895 our
2O-knot transatlantic mall line was equal
to any foreign line. Since then the Ger
the British have contracted for 2i-knot
steamers. Our service should equal the
best. If ii does not, the commercial pub
lie will abandon 1t. If We are to stayi in the
business it ought to be with full under
standing of tha advantages TO the country
on one hand, and on the other with exact
knowledge of the cost and proper methods
of carrying II on. Moreover, lines of cargo
ships are of even more Importance than
fast mail lines; save so far as the latter
can be depended upon to furnish swift
auxiliary cruisers in time of war The es-
tabishment of new lines of cargo ships to
South America, to Asia and elsewhere
would be much in the interest of our COM
mercial expansion.
Immigration.
We cannot have too much immigration
of the right kind. and we should have
none al all Of the wrong kind. The need
is to devise some system by which unde-
sirable immigrants shall be kept out en-
tirely. while desirable immigrants are
properly distributed throughout the coun-
try. At present some districts which
ers, where the population is already con-
gested, immigrants come in such numbers
as to depreSS the conditions of life for
those already there During the last
two years the immigration service at New
York has been greatly improved and the
corruption and inetficiency which former
ly obtained there have been eradicated.
This service has Just been investigated
by committee of New York citizens of
nigh standr.g, Messrs. Arthur V. Briesen,
Lee X. Frankel, Eugene A. Philbin,
Thomas w. Hynes and Ralph Trautman.
Their report deals with the whole situ-
alton at length, and concludes with GER
tain recommendations for administrative
and legislative action. 1t is now receiv-
ing the attention of the secretary OF
commerce and labor.
Naturalization Frauds.
The special investigation of the subject
of naturalization under the direction OF
the attorney general, and the consequent
prosecutions, reveal a condition of af-
fairs calling for the immediate attention
of congress. Forgeries and perjurieS OF
shameless and fragrant character have
been perpetrated, not only in the dense
centers of population, but throughout the
country; and it is established beyond
doubt that very many so-called citizens
of the United States have no title what
ever to that right, and are asserting and
| enjoying the benefits of the same through
the grossest frauds. 1t is never to be
forgotten that citizenship is, to quote the
words recently used by the supreme
court of the United States, an ines
| from birth within the country, or is OBJ
| tanned by naturalization: and we poisor
the sources of our national character anc
| strength at the fountain, If the privilege
| is claimed and exercised without right
and by means of fraud and corruption
| The body polite cannot be sound anc
| healthy if many of its constituent mem
! bers claim their standing through the
prostitution. of the high right and calling
| of citizenship. 1t should mean something
to become a citizen of the United States
| and in the process no loophole whatever
should be left open to fraud.
The federal grand jury lately in session
! in New York city dealt with this subject
and made presentment which states the
situation briefly and forcibly and contains
| important suggestions for the considera
tion of the congress. This presentment Is
| included as an appendix to the report of the
attorney general
Government Department Frauds.
In my last annual message, in connection
with the subject of the due regulation Of
| combinations of capital which are or may
become, injurious to the public, recon-
mended special appropriation for the
| better enforcement of the antitrust law
as it now stands, to be expended under
the direction of the attorney general. Ac
cordingly (by the legislative, executive ant
| judicial appropriation act of February %
1903, 80 Stat, S54, 904), the congress appro
| priated, for the purpose of enforcing thu
various federal trust and interstate com
merce laws the sum of $50O,00O to be eX
| pended under the direction of the attorney
| general in the employment of special coun
| sci and agents in the department of justice
| to conduct proceedings and prosecutions
under said laws in the courts of the United
| States. | now recommend, as matter o
the utmost Importance and urgency, tn.
extension of the purposes of this appro
priaton, so that it may be available, undel
the direction of the attorney general, ant
| until used, for the due enforcement of thu
| laws of the United States in general ant
especially Of the civil and criminal law
relating to public lands and the laws relat
ing to postal crimes and offenses and tht
subject of naturalization. Recent investi
cations have shown deplorable state o.
affairs in these three matters of vital con
cern. By various frauds and by forgerie
and perjures, thousands of acres of thu
public domain, embracing lands of differ
| ent character and extending through vari
Gus sections of the country. have been dis
honestly acquired 1t is hardly necessar!
to urge the Importance of recovering thes
dishonest acquisitions, stolen from the peo
pie, and of promptly and duly punishin.
the offenders, | speak in another part o
this message of the widespread crimes by
which the sacred right of citizenship 4
falsely asserted and that "inestimabl
heritage" perverted to base ends BY sim
liar means-that is, through frauds, forger
les and perjuries, and by shameless briber
ies-the laws relating to the proper con
duct of the public service in general an
to the due administration of the post offic
department have been notorously violated
and many indictments have been found
and the consequent prosecutions are II
course of hearing or on the eve thereof
For the reasons thus indicated, and so tha
the government may be prepared to en-
force promptly and with the greatest effec
the due penalties for such violations of law
and to this end may be furnished wit
|
legal assistance for the Investigations an
trials which will be necessary at man
different points of the country, l urge upo
the congress the necessity of making tn
said appropriation available for immediat
use for all such purposes, to be eXpende
under the direction of the attorney genera
New Extradition Treaties Needed.
Steps have been taken by the state dt
partment looking to the making {
bribery an extraditable offense with fol
eign powers. The need of more effectiy
treaties covering this crime is NANTES
The exposures and prosecutions of off
cial corruption in st. Louis, Mo, an
other cities and states have resulted
a number of givers and takers of bribe
becoming fugitives in foreign land
Bribery has not been included in extra
dition treaties heretofore. as the nece!
sity for it has not arisen. While thel
may have been as much official CORFU
ton in former years, there has been MOI
developed and brought to light in II
Immediate past than in the precedir
, century of our country's history.
should be the policy of the United Stat
! to leave no place on earth where a co
, rupt man fleeing from this country CO
rest in peace. There is no reason WI
bribery should not be included in 9
treaties as extraditable. The recel
amended treaty with Mexico, wheret
this crime was put in the list of extr
ditabe offenses, has established a sal
tary precedent in this regard Under tn
treaty the state department has aske
I and Mexico has granted, the extraditit
. of one Of the st. Louis bribe givers.
! The Alaskan boundary.
! For several years past the rapid develo
, ment of Alaska and the establishment
! growing American interests in regio
heretofore unsurveyed and imperfect
known brought into prominence the urge
: necessity of practical demarcation Of Il
: boundaries between the jurisdictions
:, the United States and Great Britain. A
d though the treaty of 1925 between Gre
0 Britain and Russia, the provisions of Will
8 were copied in the treaty of 1867, where
:, Russia conveyed Alaska to the Unit
i States, was positive as to the control, fiji
: by Russia and later by the United Stat,