Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

lative step to be taken IS that TOT tne of the proper bureaus in- to one of the existing departments. l therefore urgently recommend the pass age of a bill which shall authorize a of the bureaus which shall best accomplish this end.
 Government Printing office
 I recommend that legislation be en.. acted placing under the jurisdiction Of the department of commerce and labor the government printing office. At present this office is under the com bned control, supervision, and admin. istrative direction of the president and of the joint committee on printing of the two houses of the congress. The advantage of having the 4,069 employ ees in this office and the expenditure of the $5,761,377.57 appropriated there for supervised by an executive depart ment is obvious, instead of the present combined supervision.
 Soldiers Homes
 All Soldiers Homes should be placed under the complete jurisdiction and control of the war department.
 Independent Bureaus and Commissions
 Economy and sound business policy require that all existing independent bureaus and commissions should be placed under the jurisdiction of appro- priate executive departments. It is un- wise from every standpoint, and results only in mischief, to have any executive work done save by the purely exeeu- tive bodies, under the control of the president; and each such executive body should be under the immediate supervision of cabinet minister.
 Statehood
 I advocate the immediate admission of New Mexico and Arizona as states. This should be done at the present session of the congress. The people of the two territories have made it evil dent by their votes that they will not come in as one state. The only alter native is to admit them as two, and l trust that this will be done without delay.
 Interstate Fisheries
 | call the attention of the congress to the importance of the problem of the fisheries in the interstate waters. On inc Great Lakes We are now, under the very wise treaty of April 1lth Of th's year. endeavoring to come to an inter national agreement for the preserva- ton and satisfactory use of the fisher ies of these waters which cannot other wise be achieved. Lake Erie, for ex- ample has the richest fresh water hsn' cries in the world; but 1t Is now con trolled by the statutes of two nations, four states. and one province, and Tn this province by different ordinances in different counties. All these poit' ieal divisions work at cross purposes and in no case can they achieve pro lection to the fisheries, on the one hand. and justice 10 the localities ana ;ndividuals on the other. The case IS similar in Puget Sound.
 But the problem is quite as presslng in the interstate waters of the ohiteo States. The salmon fisheres or the Columbia river are now but a fracuon of what they were twenty-five years aoo. and what they would be now III inc United States government had tax on complete charge of them by inter veuing between Oregon and Washing ton. During these twenty-five years inc fishermen of each state have nat lurally tried to take all they could get and the two legislatures have never been able to agree on joint acton oi any kind adequate in degree Tor the nrotection of the fisheries. At the mo mont the fishing on the Oregon side IS practically closed, while there is no linn l;, m the Washington side of any kind and no one can tell what the courts will decide, as 10 the very statutes unJer which this action and nonactioh result Meanwhile very few salmon reach the spawning grounds, and prop, lably four years hence the fisheries VIII amount to nothing, and this comes from a struggle between the associated, or oil net fishermen On the one hand, and inc owners of the fishing wheels up the river. The fisheries of the Mississippi the Ohio, and the Potomac arc also in bad way. For this there IS no remedy except for the United States to control and legislate for the interstate fsheries as part of the business of interstate commerce. In this case the machinery for scientific investigation and for con fro, already exists in the United States Bureau of Fisheries In this as in sim liar problems lne oDNlouS ahu Si''P'N rule should be followed of having those matters which no particular state can manage taken in hand by the United States; problems, which in the seesaw of conflicting state legislatures are ab solutely unsolvable, are asy enough foi the congress to control.
 Fisheries and Fur Seals The federal statute regulating inter state traffic in game should be extended to include fish. New federal fish hatch cries should be established. The admin istration of the Alaskan fur seal ser vice should be vested in the Bureau oi Fisheries.
 Foreign Affairs
 The nations foreign policy is based on the theory that right must be done between nations precisely as between individuals, and in our actions for tho last ten years We have in this matter proven our faith by our deeds. We have behaved, and are behaving, toward other nations, as in private life an hon orable man would behave towards his fellows.
 Latin-American Republics
 The commercial and material prog rcss of the twenty Latin American Re publcs is worthy of the careful atten tion of the congress. No other sector