The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-12-09
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Generalization TO conservative banking
and certain financial disaster.
Ship Subsidy.

Generalization to conservative banking
and certain financial disaster.
| Ship Subsidy.
Following the course OF my distin-
| guished predecessor, earnestly recon-
mend to congress the consideration
/ ard passage of a ship subsidy bill,
4 looking to the establishment of lines
| between our Atlantic seaboard and the
| eastern coast of South America. as
1 well as lines from the west coast OF
the United States to South America,
China, Japan and the Philippines. The
| profits on foreign mails are perhaps
| sufficient measure of the expenditures
| which might first be tentatively APP
American capital TO undertake the es-
| adjustment of American lines of
| steamships In those directions in which
| we now feel ii most important that we
should have means of transportation
controlled in the interest of the expan-
| sion of our trade. A bill of this char
| acter has once passed the house and
more than once passed the senate, and
l hope that at this session a bill
! framed on the same lines and with the
same purposes may become law
The president recommends the adj
mission of New Mexico and Arizona
as separate states, and strongly OPP
poses legislation looking to the cleo
ton of a territorial legislature for
Alaska.
Conservation OF National Resources.
In several departments there is present.
ed the necessity for legislation looking to
| the further conservation of our national
resources and the subject is one of such
| Importance as to require a more detailed
and extended discussion than can be en-
| tered upon in this communication. For
that reason shall take an early oppor-
tunity to send special message to con-
| gress on the subject OF the Improvement
of our waterways, upon the reclamation
and irrigation of arid, semi-arid and
swamp lands; upon the preservation Of
our forests and the reforesting of suit
able areas; upon the Redistribution Of
the public domain with a view OF sep
arating from agricultural settlement min
| eral, coal, and phosphate lands and sites
belonging to the government bordering on
streams suitable for the utilization of
water power 1858.
The White Slave Trade.
greatly regret to have to say that the
Investigations made in the bureau of i'm
migration and other sources of Informal
| ton lead to the view that there is urgent
necessity for additional legislation and
greater executive activity to suppress the
recruiting of the ranks of prostitutes from
the streams of immigration into this
country-an evil which, for want of bet
ter name, has been called 1.-THE White
Slave Trade" I believe it to be con9titu-
tional to forbid, under penalty, the trans
| portation of persons for purposes of pros
titution across national and state lines
| and by appropriating a fund of $4,000 to
| be used by the secretary OF commerce
| and labor for the employment of special
inspectors it will be possible to bring
those responsible for this trade to indlct-
ment and conviction under a federal law.
Bureau of Health.
| For a very considerable period a move
ment has been gathering strength esDe-
cially among the members of the madi-
| cal profession, in favor of a concentra-
| ton of the instruments of the national
government which have to do with the
| promotion of public health. In the nature
of things, the medical department of the
army and the medical department of tho
navy must be kept separate. But there
seems to be no reason why all the other
bureaus and offices in the general gov
| eminent which have to do with the pub
lie health or subjects akin thereto shoild
not be united in a bureau to be called the
bureau of public health" This would
| necessitate the transfer of the marine-
hospital service to such a bureau | am
aware that there is a wide field in re-
spect to the public health committed to
! the states in which the federal govern
ment cannot exercise Jurisdiction but we
have seen in the agricultural department
| the expansion into widest usefulness Of
department giving attention to agricul-
ture when that subject is plainly one
over which the states properly exercise
direct jurisdiction. The opportunities Of
! fered for useful research and the spread
| of useful information in regard to the
cultivation of the soil and the breeding
of stock and the solution of many of the
| intricate problems In progressive agriCul-
ture have demonstrated the wisdom of
establishing that department. Similar
reasons, of equal force, can be given for
the establishment of a bureau of health
that shall not only exercise the poll, Q
jurisdiction of the federal government e.
speeding quarantine, but which shall also
afford an opportunity for investigation
and research by competent experts into
questions of health affecting tho whole
country, or important sections thereof,
questions which, in the absence of fed
eral governmental work, are not likely
to be promptly solved.
Civil Service Commission.
The work OF the United States civil SER
vice commission has been performed to
| the general satisfaction of the executive
officers with whom the commission has
| been brought into official communication
| The volume of that work and its variety
and extent have under new laws, such
as the census act, and new executive or
ders, greatly increased. The activities of
the commission REQUIRED by the statutes
have reached to every portion of the pub
! lie domain.
Political Contribution.
/ urgently recommend to congress that
law be passed requiring that cand-
dates in elections of members of the
house Of representatives and committees
in charge of their candidacy and cam
paign file in a proper Office of the United
| States government a statement of the
contributions received and of the expen-
ditures incurred in the campaign for such
elections and that similar legislation be
enacted in respect to all other elections
which are constitutionally within the
control OF congress.
Conclusion.
| l have thus, in a message compressed
as much as the subjects will permit, re-
ferred to many of the legislative needs
of the country, with the exceptions al
ready noted. Speaking generally. the
country is in a high state of prosperity.
There is every reason to believe that we
are on the eve Of a substantial business
| EXPANSION and wa have inst fyarnared n