Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-13
NAGEL SUBMITS
ANNUAL REPORT
RECOMMENDATION BY HEAD OF
COMMERCE AND LABOR
GIVES INTERESTING FACTS CON-
cERNING HIS WORK
Shows Seals viii Become Matter of
Memory, Japanese immigration
Decreased and Better Clerks
Should Be Employed
Associated Pressl

SnouIo BE EHPIOySu
ASSOCIATED Pressl
WASHINGTON Dec. 12.-The re-
port of the secretary of commerce and
labor, Charles Nagel was made pub
lie tonight The report shows there
are at least 100000 bachelor seals on
st, Pauls and ST. Georges islands.
Nearly 2000 Of the seals there are ben
edicts of a polygamous temperament
and have among them about oVVOO
wives, classified by the government
experts into "harems." There are only
100000 seals left now on the Prlpyloi
islands and it is only a question OF
time when the seal Will be memory:
Off the coast of Florida series Oh
experiments have proved we can pro-
duce our own sponges.
Somewhere between Hatteras ana
Labrador there is an expert Ior lhe
government beating his way up the
coast on a wind jammer' looking
for a very elusive fish, the mackerel.
When he learns his tricks the govern
ment will tell the fishermen.
AT Afognak, Alaska, there is new
salmon station which has liberated
more than 100000 young red saIInol
10 the rivers, and during the year the
government deposited in various
waters of the United States more thah
100000 fish.
Charts Made of New Waters
Finding their way through the tor
tuous channels in the waters OF lhe
Philippines, a group of hardy men
from the coast and geodetic survey are
finding new lanes for commerce.
Waters hitherto uncharted ana nisef of
terv to the mariner Will be easy oL
navigation. Another group is WORK.
ing its way up the rocky coast Oh
ON the northern edge of the United
States a band of explorers mas cut lLs @
way through the forests 10 the peah
Of fhe Rocky mountains. marking the
boundary line of the United states
and Canada. The old stone mohu-
ments have been recovered and ne"
ones set i'm their places. Along tIle
Yukon river the civil engineers nave
been locating the 141st merldlah ol
longitude. -. e oeeA Ian
The report shows that OF 26et o4o,1 Jap, %
anese who applied for admission 70 70
the country. 2432 had proper passports
from their home government ana oiiiS
212 were debarred. c...-,, oov,,-
rnerce is amazing. The total Naiue oda ooo 9i
imnorts was more than Sl5Oo'UVV;iooU,
The value of exports was more IMAM
81, 600, 100000.
Ship Building Product sma"
0,,ri,,e tbe fiscal year 1909 our SNIP
yards built only 12f merchant Vessels'
with tonnage of 23S,00O, the shalles'
product since 1898. ... s,aer-
OF 2S2 steamships which carry rSottl7
o. ore nasseneers to and from the UlllIeo
States half of them have been EQUIPPED
,,,ith wireless. The mainland OF Alas-
lta the United States, Hawai-, Forto .1
Rico and the Panama canal zone nav
been equipped with wireless IaHu 9'a
tiOns. 5, +ba
Secretary Nagel recommends the
further development of the bureau VI
corDorations. At the end OF thls iscai i
wear the department stu mas on HanS tni
Investigations of the lumber ana steer
industries. the International Harvester
con1nanv. concentration of water pow
or ownership. transportation by water
in the United States, the TOBACCO III
dustrv and the operation OF cotton eN-
changes and state systems OF corporate
taxation. 20 e+a+,,-
definite federal system OF statu
tory publicity is urged. This Wouid
compel all important concerns eIsdseu
i'm Interstate commerce to report at
stated intervals to a federal agency
such as the bureau of corporations, the
essential facts regarding their organ
ization, management and condition
Nearly Million Aliens Enter U. S.
In all, during the fiscal year, 94i,23o
aliens entered the country, ana o' pei
cent of them came from Russia ana
+ba countries of southern Europe. a
total of 20 per cent of illiterates is
shown hy the report, which IS an IN
crease over the previous year, 1hese
aliens brought $17,331,S S28 into the couh-
try and they possessed an average OF
sea- 50 each. It is calculated that 50
per cent of them were assisted 10 reach
this country.
In one portion Of his report SecrttarS
Nagel takes up the white slave
traffic. The departments investiga-
tiors show that the traffic in immoral
women is an established and extensive
business and is by no means confined
Ia trading in women who nave been
imported 1t includes alien women
who have entered the country in a
regular way and American women as
well.
Under the present law the federal
officers are equipped TO deal with only
a small part of such d situation. The
law merely prohibits the bringing Of
women into the country for immoral
purposes.
The secretary recommends the law
be amended to prohibit as well the
bringing of women for such purposes
from one state into another and that
900 be appropriated to enforce all
federal laws against that traffic
The need of amending Chinese i'm
migration laws to fit conditions exist
ing is recommended.
Turning to his own office, secretary
Nagel lays down the principle that
the government is entitled to "a days
work for a days pay" Because of the
low salaries established in some of the
grades it was found impossible, Mr..
NageI says, to get civilians capable of
the work at such salaries. AS a
remedial step he advocates the aboli-
tion of all clerical positions paying
less than 5000 year and that places
paying from $500 to $500 be created in
their stead.
FIRE STARTS IN LODGING