Bisbee daily review., 1908-10-10
BETTER NAVAL FACILITIES IS
 COAST DEMAND
Many Questions of Large Import Taken Up By the
 Transmississippi Congress Session at San Francisco.

 sion of the Transmississippi Commer- cial Congress held today was devoted largely to addresse covering a wide variety of subjects, the deliberations of the committee on resolutions which took action upon a number of impera- tive questions and to the entertain ment of delegations in the form of automobile and trolley tours over the city.
 Practically all of the contests be. fore the committee on resolutions eff feet directly or indirectly the express ed policy of the national administra- tion on matters relating to conserva- tion of resources, and in some in stances it is expected the controversies will be carried to the floor of the congress tomorrow morning when the delayed report of the committee is presented for consideration.
 One of the most important of these related to the disposal of water rights suitable for power develop ment, and resolution introduced by Frank Short, of Fresno, dealing with the subject was so amended before the committee as to defeat the bro posal to grant to the originators the power projects, rights and privileges that are now accorded irrigationists.
 Former Governor George c. Pardee, of California, member of the national commission on the conservation of resources, opposed Short in the hear. ing, and it was s4eld in the resolu- tion not to endorse the granting of perpetual rights whether located in or out of the forest reserves. and sGCuid not confer the right of dis posai upon tke state in which they are located.
 '-ate in the cay the session was en. livened by an appeal made on the floor by Edward M Berwick, presi. dent of the California Postal Progress League, who accused the committee on resolutions of sharp practice in en, composing the defeat of his resoIu. tion providing for the endorsement of a parcels post measure Berwick was opposed by Colonel H. D. Loveland, of California, who chaneed to be presid. ing, and who declared Berwick him. self has been guilty of sharp practice In making a point of no quorum after his resolution was voted down. It was finally agreed that the parcel post measure, which is supported by Post. mater Arthur G. Fisk, of San Francis. co, be passed on to the congress for a general expression of opinion.
 c. A. Ruleofson, representing the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce today presented a set of resolutions adopted last Monday by the tri-state conference, representing fourteen or the commercial bodies of Washington Oregon and California. He supported the resolution in a lengthy address in which he incorporated the substance of letter written to Secretary of the Navy Metcalf, calling the attention of the department to the necessity of i'm proved navy yards on the Pacific nucoast. The letter requests that a board of navy engineers be required to investigate and report at once upon steps necessary to provide Mare Islands the shops and dockage fac1n- ties required to care for such a fleet as will afford adequate protection to the Pacific coast in time of peace or war.
 While We are not alarmists," said
 
 any fleet permanently assigned to the Pacific could not be kept in any state of efficiency in time of emergency. What is the advantage of having guns and men behind the guns, if We have no place 10 house them or take care cf them2"
 One of the notable features of the congress was today's address by David Starr Jordan, president of Stan for University, who advocated the Institution of national bureau of fish protection. Another address of the day was that of J w. Howell, of Seat tie. who spoke upon the preparations for the Alaska YukonPacific exposition to be held next year.
 Dr. Jordan spoke as follows:
 The International fisheries commis- sion represents most interesting ef fort to settle at once a number of problems in International Law, in Con stitutional Law, in Conflict of Laws, in Equity and at the same time in Bi- ology. for no statute for the preserya- ton and propagation of fish can be effective unless the nature of the in- dividual species, it's food, its distri- button and it's habits, is primarily and consistently kept in view.
 The boundary waters of the United States and Canada include two of the greatest fishing areas of the world. The Great Lakes constitute the great est body of fresh water belonging to any single system, and 1t is richer in fish life than any other Puget Sound and the adjacent waters are part of the great Alaskan system, the region of all the world richest in salmon.
 In these boundary waters the stat utes of the Dominion of Canada, those of the different provinces and those Of the different states of the Ameri- can Union are more or less at cross purposes. Over Lake Erie, for exam pie, the richest of the lakes in fish states and one province claim jurisdictions, with the greatest variation in theory and practice of fish protection.
 In the treaty of April II, 1908. an is made to remedy this condi- ton of affairs by the adoption by Great Britian and the United States of identical statutes relating to the fisheries. Under this treaty two com missioners have been appointed to draw up this code of fishery statutes, and 1t is agreed that the code snail be submitted tc both nations for adoption by the first of January. 1909.
 This treaty involves, first, Joint in-