Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-09

aware of the inadeQuacy of American public health legislation. This nation cannot afford to Jag behind in the world wide battle now being wagea by all civilized people with the m cro- scopic foes of mankind, nor ought we longer to ignore the reproacn that this government takes more pains lU protect the lives of hogs and cattle than of human beings. The first leg isIative step to be taken is that for the concentration the proper bu- reaus into enc of the existing depart ments l therefore urgently recon mend the passage of a bill when shah authorize redistribution of the bureaus which shall best accomplish this end.
 recommend that legislation be en- acted placing under the jurisdiction or the department of commerce and labor the government printing office. At present this office is under the com bined control superv' sion, and admin istratiye direction of the president ana of the joint committee on printing of the two houses of the congress The advantage of having the 4,069 Cm- ployes in this office and the expsnii- ture of the $5,761, ,377.57 appropriated therefor supervised by an executive department is obvious. instead of the present combined supervision.
 Soldiers Homes.
 All soldiers homes should be placed under the complete Jurisdiction and contIpl of the war department.
 Independent Bureaus and Commissions
 Economy and sound business policy hat a1l bureaus and commissions should be placed under the jurisdiction of appro, pFiate executive d.. artntca. It $ nnwise from eyery standpoint, and le- suits only in mischief. to have any ex- ecutive work done save by the purely ' executive bodies, under the control oI the president ;and eacn such execu- tive body should be under the imme- diate supervision of a cabinet minis ter.
 Statehood.
 I advocate the immediate admis-
 sion of New Mexico and Arizona as
 states. This should be done at the present session cf the congress. Tns people of the two territories laye made it evident by their votes that
 they will not come in as one state,
 the only alternative is to admit them
 as two, and I trust that this wiu be
 done without delay.
 Interstate Fisheries.
 1 call the attention of the congress
 to the importance of tho problem oi the fisheries in the iEt9.sta1e waters On the Great Lakes We are now. ur,
 der the very wise treaty rf April 11th of tdis year. endeavoring to come to
 an international agreement for the
 preservation and Satisfac,9'v use oi
 the fisheries of these waters which
 can not othe; wise be achieveil. Lake
 Erie. for example, mas the richest fresh water fisheries in the world: but it is now controlled by the statutes Of two nations. four states. and one
 prov nee, and in this province by diff , ferent ordinances in different coun-
 ties. All these political divisions work at cross purposes, and iiI no case csn they achieve protection to the
 fisheries, on the enc hand, and justice to the localities and individuals on the other. The case is similar iE
 Puget Sound
 The federal statute regulating in,
 terstate traffic in game should be ex
 tended to include fisl. New federal
 fish hatchsries should pc estabI shed
 The administration of the Alaskan fUr
 seal service should be vested in the bureau of fisheries.
 Foreiun Affairs.
 This nations foreign policy is baaet on the thory that right must be 1 done between nations precisely as Be tween individuals, and in oIr actions for the last ten years We have in this matter proven our faith by our deeds We have behaved, an1 are behaving towards other nations, as in pIJVate life an honorable man would b,l { Yt towards his fellows
 Latin-American Republics. The commercial and mater'al rrog Tess cf the twenty Latin-AmericaT republics is worthy of the careful at tention of the congress. No other sec ton of the world has shown a great CT pTopOrtiOAate development e. its foreign trade during the last zen years and none other has mere spscial claims on@the interest of the I'niteS States. It offers today probably Iarg CT opportunities for the legitimate Cv panSiOn of our commerce nan aH! ether group Of cOuItr.CS. TI,sc counties will want Our prcduc5 il greatly increased quantities. and Nt shall coTrespondingly need theirs. Tht international bureau of ;ie American treraSiics is doing useful work iI making these nations and their re sources better known to us. and fl ,acquaint'ng them not only with Us a' T reople and with our purposes to , wards them, but with what we hay, to exchange for their goods. It is al international institution supported bl all the governments of the two Ameri cas.
 Panama Canal.
 The work on the Panama Canal | being done with a speed. efficienc, land entire devotion to duty, wDici make it model for all work of ih, kind No task of such rlagn tude ha ! eyer before been undertaken by an nation; and no task of the kind ba | ever been better performed The me cn the Isthmus, from Colonel Goethal and his fellow commissioners throug the entire list of employees who ar l faithfully doing their duty. nave wo their right to the ungrudging respec and gratitude of the American people Ocean Mail Lines.
 I again recommend tHe extensio ] of the ocean mall act of 1891 50 tha l lsatsifactory American ocean mai lines to South America, Asa a, the Phi ippines, and Australasia may be ei itablished. The creation of sue, 1 steamship lines should be the naturs ' corcllary of the voyage of the battl fleet. It should precede the openin | of the Panama Canal. Even undt