The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-17


 places Into fertile fields and blossoming
 gardens; extended our producing area tor grains westward Into the dry re- gfons. so that nearly 5O.000,0O0 bushels
 year are being grown in regions tive and In every way possible con- serving the natural resources soi the country for ourselves and the genera
 The Department Of Commerce and Labor, organized in 1903, has been &C., | tive and potential in extending our commerce and protecting our labor. 1t | countries, particularly to South Amer
 lea and the Orient. to learn the needs
 ePd % Sf on ns PsSsese PsSs tn he
 which in 1903 aggrega 4 s1.ss2.o 900, OOv will, 1t Is estimated, in 1908, aggregate
 about Sl 300, ,000,0 900, showing an increase
 praet'caiiy Tda1 ca to every country, Its Bu- system of recording the internal com l nerce of the country on the Great
 Lakes and at important interior cen
 brought about more intimate relations between the manufacturers of the United States and buyers abroad, and | touch with dealers, aided in the exten- 1 factures
 It has co-operated in the benefcent
 work of arbitration to avert or termin- ate strikes and promote the interests
 of our laboring people Congress has wisely co-operated with and supple mented the work of this department by enacting law for the better protection Of seamen and to prevent their being
 induced to ship through false repre-
 vestigation into % t6. Conditions M Of M work : ing women and children; it has amend ed and strengthened the law to pre- vent the importation of contract labor, and provided plan for the further ex-
 clusion of that class of Asiatic immi- grafton which enters Into competition with American worxmen. It has en- of employees engaged in railway train service and of railway telegraphers. As to Common Carriers.
 The Congress just closed re-enacted @ the law passed by the Fifty,ninth | the Supreme Court, making common carriers liable for accidents to their | employees engaged in interstate com l further protection of the life of rail : I road employees in their hazardous em- | ployment. It has provided conpensa- l ton for laborers and mechanics who Government, and making a provision l for their families in the event of their
 bslng killed n the ceIrss Sf tseir meae | child-labor law for the District of Co., | lumbia. It has directed q thorough | investigation into the working condt- | liutlS Ol NHe GInPlOycS OL lt1c tbACBIdpu and telephone companies doing Inter state business; and. in response to the urgent appeal from both capital and
 labor. Congress, ,zo before dsG its adjournment, I tfon Into the cause of mine accidents. l with a view Of promoting the safety 1 of workers in our mines.
 | Tt is within bounds to say that no previous sessions of Congress have dis played more active or intelligent in-
 terest in the needs of the wage-earners
 than the past three sessions, nor has there heretofore in the same length | of time been as much important and progressive Legislation, in the interests
 of this class of our fellow citizens. l '"The work of the Department of the
 Interior has been prosecuted under the kpresent Administration with intelli- gence and vigor. During the past year
 over two million acres of coal lands I have been restored to the public do-
 main. During the last five years I fences unlawfully closing public lands l have been removed from 3.519.533 acres,
 and steps are now being taken to re- | move from such inclosures 3,750,0O0
 During the past five years s51s.5ol have been collected for timber tres-
 passes upon the public land; and. and other Ter
 claims compromised. yielding s510,6S1. During the last five years 7S2
 fraudulent land entries have been can
 celed. restoring to the public domain
 May 1, 1908. deeds for 1sO acres each have been granted to 275.333 homestead
 settlers on the public domain, covering | 44,05S,2s0 acres.
 Since July 1. 1906. 171.O4T original
 homestead and desert land entries have
 been made embracing 28,371. 400 acres | President to prevent the monopoly oi
 our public lands and place a family on every 160 acres. It Is estimated by
 conservative engineers that the re-
 clamation act will bring into cultiva- | ton and occupancy a quarter millior acres of land now desert and uninhabit-