The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-12-08

which are or may become injurious
to the public, 1 recommended a special
appropriation for the better enforce
ment of the antitrust law as 1t now
stands, to be expended under the d.
rection of the attorney general.
Accordingly the congress appropriat-
ed for the purpose of enforcing the
various federal trust and interstate
commerce laws. the sum of five hun
dred thousand dollars, to be expended
under the direction of the attorney
general in the employment of special
counsel and agents in the department
of justice to conduct proceedings and
prosecutions under said laws in the
courts of the United States. 1 now re-
commend as a matter of the utmost
Importance and urgency, the extension
of the purposes of this appropriation.
so that it may be available, under
the direction of the attorney general,
and until used, for the due enforce
nient of the laws of the United States
in general and especially of the civil
and criminal laws relating to postal
crimes and offenses and the subject of
naturalization. Recent Investigations
have shown a deplorable state of af-
fairs in these three matters of vital
concern. By various frauds and by
forgeries and perjuries, thousands of
acres of the public domain, embracing
lends of different character and ex-
tending through various sections of the
country. have been dishonesty ac-
quired. 1t is hardly necessary to urge
the Importance of recovering these dis
honest acquisitions. stolen from the
people, and of promptly and duly pun
lshing the offenders.
POSTAL FRAUDS.
By similar means-that is, through
frauds, forgeries, and perjuries, and
oy shameless briberies-the laws re-
lating to the proper conduct of the
public service in general and to the
due administration of the postoffice
department have been notoriously vio-
lated, and many indictments have
oeen found and the consequent prose-
cutions are in course of hearing or on
the eve therof.
For the reason thus indicated, and
so that the government may be pre-
pared to enforce promptly and with
.p. 1tta inS
for such violations of law, and to this
md may be furnished with sufficient
.nstrumentalities and competent legal
assistance for the Investigations. and
,nais which will be necessary at many
dlnerent points of the country, l urge
upon the congress the necessity OF
dDIe for immediate use for all such
purposes, to be expended under the
direction of tn attorney general
(Ine message then discusses the
need of treaties making extradition
eXtradictable, gives an account Of
the work and results of the Alaskan
against Venezuela submitted to the
nague tribunal; the gratifying ad-
vaneement OF the course of interna-
uCnal arbitration, the efforts being
made for an international agreement
eAemptlng private property from cap
ture by beligerent powers; and our re-
ltarionS uith rHurkau
RELATIONS WITH CHINA.
The signing of the new commercial
treaty with China, which took place
at Shanghai on the Sth of October. is
a cause for satisfaction. This act, the
result of long discussion and negotia-
uon, places our commercial relations
with the great Oriental empire on
more satisfactory footing than they
nave ev.F heretofore enjoyed. 1t pro-
vides not only for the ordinary rights
and privileges of diplomatic and con-
sIlar officers, but also for an import
ant extension of our commerce by in
cleased facility of access TO Chinese
the removal of some of the obstacles
which have embarrassed it in the past.
The Chinese government engages. on
fair and equitable conditions, which
will probably be accepted by the prin-
cipal commercial nations, to abandon
tho levy of 'liken" and other transit
dues throughout the empire. and to
introduce other desirable administra-
tive reforms. Larger facilities are TO
be given to our citizens who desire to
cary on mining enterprises in China.
We have secured for our missionaries
a valuable privilege. the recognition
of their right to rent and lease in per-
petuity such property as their religious
societies may need in all parts of the
empire. And, what was an indispens-
able condition for the advance and de-