The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-07

appoint Indian policemen and nOtaries public. believe 1t essential to good government in Alaska, and therefore recommend, that the congress diyest the district judges and the clerks of their courts of the administrative or executive functions that they now exer- else and cast them upon the governor. i This would not be an innovation; it ] would simply conform the government 1 of Alaska to fundamental principles, making the goyernorship real instead of a merely nominal office, and leaving the judges free to give their entire at tention to their judicial duties and at the same time removing them from great deal of the strife that now em- barrasses the judicial office in Alaska.
 I also recommend that the salaries of the district judges and district attor- 1 neys in Alaska be increased so as to make them equal to those received by corresponding officers in the United States after deducting the difference in the cost of living; that the district att torneys should be prohibited from en- gazing in private practice; that United States commissioners be appointed by the governor of the territory instead of by the district judges, and that fixed salary be provided for them to take the. place of the discredited fee system, which should be abolished in all offices; that a mounted constabulary be crea- ted to police the territory outside the limits of incorporated towns-a vast section now wholly without police pro- uection; and that some provision be made to at least lessen the oppressive delays and costs that now attend the prosecution of appeals from the district court of Alaska. There should be di- i vision of the existing judicial districts, and an increase in the number of. judges.
 Alaska should have a delegate in the congress. Where possible, the con- gress should aid in the construction of needed wagon roads. Additional light houses should be provided, In my judgment, it is especially important to aid in such manner as seems just and feasible in the construction of a trunk line of railway to connect the Gulf or Alaska with the Yukon river through American territory. This would be most beneficial to the development of 1 the resources of the territory, and to the comfort and welfare of it's people.
 salmon hatcheries should be estab- lished irl many different streams, So as to secure the preservation of this yalu- able food fish. Salmon fisheries and canneries should be prohibited on cer- tain of the rivers where the mass ot those Indians dwell who live almost ex- clusively on fish.
 The Alaskan natives are kindly, intel ligent anxious to learn and willing 10 work. Those who have come under the influence of civilization, even for a lim- tied period, have proved their capabilt- ty of becoming self-supporting self respecting citizens, and ask only for the just enforcement of law and intel ligent instruction and supervision. Others, living in more remote regions, primitive, simple hunters and fisher folk, who know only the life of the woods and the waters, are daily being confronted with twentieth-century civ ilization with all of it's complexities. Their country Is being oyerrun by strangers, the game slaughtered and driven away, the streams depleted ot fish, and hitherto unknown and fatal diseases brought to them, all of Wn1cn combine to produce state of abject poverty and want which must result in their extinction. Action in their inter est is demanded by every consideration of justice and humanity.
 The needs of these people are:
 The abolition of the present fee sys- tenn, whereby the native is degraded, imposed upon and taught, the injustice of law.
 The establishment of hospitals at central points. so that contagious dis eases that are brought te them contin- ually by incoming whites may be local- ized and not allowed to become epidem- ic, to spread death and destitution over great areas
 The development of the educational system in the form of practical train ing in such industries as will assure the Indians self-support under the changed conditions in which they will have to live.
 The duties of the office of the gover- nor should be extended to include the supervision of Indian affairs, with ne- cessary. assistants in different districts. He should be provided with the means and the power to protect and advise the native people, to furnish medical treat ment in time of epidemics, and to ex- tend material relief in periods of fam inc and extreme destitution.
 Hawaii and Porto Rico.
 The Alaskan natives should be given the right to acquire, hold and dispose of property upon the same conditions as given other inhabitants; and the privilege of citizenship should be given toysuch as may be able to meet certain definite requirements. In Hawaii con gress should give the governor power to remove all the officials appointed un- der him. The harbor of Honolulu should be dredged. The Marine Hospi- tai service should be empowered to study leprosy In the islands. I ask special consideration for the report and recommendations of the governor of Porto Rico.
 Foreign Policy.
 In treating of our foreign policy and of the attitude that this great nation