Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-16

 further dilly-dallying or delay. T' plan which promises the best ss,| quickest results is that of permars.. commission authorized to eoordin,.. inc work of all the Governmen, a. partmcnts relating Co waterways. asa to frame and supervise the execu,ia. of comprehensive plan. Under sn.l commission the actual work of eos structon might be entrusted Co tbe 2, clamation service; orsto the milita,v engineers acting with a mrGeis,, number of civilians to continue n, work in time of war; or it migb, \, divided between the reclamation so, vice and the corps of engineers. Fund, should be provided from current ,s, enues if it is deemed wise -othewi. from the sale of bonds. The essential things is that the work should % so, ward under the best possible plan. ana with the least possible delay. Wi. should have new type of work and new organization for planning a,i directing it. The time for play,, with our waterways is past Tk,| country demands results.
 National Parks.
 urge that all our National pa,k, ad iacent to National forests be plaesl completely under the control of h, forest service of the Agricultural D. partment, instead of leaving them al | thev now are. under the Interior Del partmcnt and policed by the arm, The Congress should provide for a pcrintcndents with adequate corps s| | nrst.class civilian scouts, or rangen| and further. place the road cons,ru, ton under the superintendent instead of leaving it with the War Depan| ment Such change in park manavI ment would result in economy aN| avoid the difficulties in administraiiO,| which now arise from having the .| sponsibility of care and protectia| | divided between \Gercnt departmert| The need for this course Is peculiahy| great in the Yellowstone Park Thal | ike the Yosemite, Is a great wonds'| land. and should he kept as n natiOhi playground. In both all wild thing, should be protected, and the sceneu kept wholly unmarred.
 am happy to say that l have bed able to set aside in various parts A the country small, well-chosen traei} of ground to serve as sanctuaries and nurseries for wild creatures.
 Denatured Alcohol. i had occasion in my message A May |. 1906. to urge the passage 4 some law putting alcohol. used in "A arts, industries, and manufactures, up| on the free list; that is, Co provd| for the withdrawal free of tax Of a| cohol which is to he denatured fot those purposes. The law of June Il 1906. and its amendment of March \ 1907. accomplished what was desiieI in that respect, and the use of ~ natured alcohol. as intended, is mal| in a fair degree of progress and I entitled to further encouragement ati support from the Congress.
 Pure Food.
 The pure food legislation mas s| ready worked benefit difficult \ overcstimate. Indian Service.
 IL has been my purpose from th\ beginning of my administration \ take the Indian Service compleis1 out of the atmosphere of political a1 tivity, and there has been steady r1 gress toward that end. The last t| maining stronghold of politics in th,I service was the agency system, whkI had seen its best days and was grad ually falling to pieces from natural
 purely evolutionary caascs, but, hil all such survivals, was decaying SOY . ly in its later stages. It seems cleiI that its extinction mad better be madl final now. SO that the ground can cleared for larger constructive wo'I on behalf of the Indians, prepara'o1 . to their induction into the full meit urc of responsible citizenship. On N] vember only eighteen agencies w'1 left on the roster; with two extfl tions, where some legal qnesilo'| seemed to stand temporarily m VI way, these have been changed Co sI pcrintendents. and their heads brous into the classical civil service. Secret Service.
 Last year an amendment was me porated in tho measure providing " the Secret Service, which provld1 that there should be no detail fej lli' tNfNff' tN'INi't bhb h' thcrefrom. It is not too much 10 aI that this amendment has been of bes] ft only and could he of benefit onI to the criminal classes. If delibera'] ly introduced for tae purpose Of d'j inishing the effectiveness Of VI against crime it could not have be5 better devised to this end. It forpa1 the practices that had been follow to greater or less extent by the eij cutive heads of various departmenj for twenty years. To these prac'h] we owe the securing of the eyides] , which enabled us to drive great " teries out of business and secure , quarter of million of dollars in ns] from their promoters. These prae~] have enabled us to discover some the most outrageous frauds in conh9 tion with the theft of governme] land and government timber by gJ corporations and by individuals, Tn'] practices have enabled us to get sOJ of the evidence indispensable in o,a] to secure the conviction of the wea'i , jest and most formidable crimih,] ' with whom the Government has deal, both those operating in ',o] |, tion of the antitrust law and orde] Tho amcub,nant ,n nuastinu was