Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-08

between members. instances Of which
have been officially brought to my at
tention, and that by such reorganiza.
ton greater efficiency and a substan-
tial reduction in the expense of opera.
ton can be brought about.
CONSOLIDATION OF BUREAUS.
l request Congressional authority to
enable the Secretary Of Commerce and
Labor to unite the Bureaus of Manu-
features and Statistics. This was rec.
commended by competent committee
appointed in the previous adninistra.
ton for the purpose of suggesting
changes in the interest of economy and
efficiency, and is requested by the Sec.
rotary.
THE. WHITE SLAVE TRADE.
1 greatly regret to have to say that
the Investigations made in the Bureau
of Immigration and other sources of
information lead to the view that there
is urgent necessity for additional legis>
lation and greater executive activity
to suppress the recruiting OF the ranks
of p1 ostituteS from the streams of inn
migration into this country an evil
which, for want of a better name, has
been called THE White Slave Trade"
believe it to be constitutional 10 for.
bid, under penalty, the transportation
Of persons for purposes Of prostitution
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 spe.
cial inspectors it will be possible to
bring those responsible for this trade
to indictment and conviction under a
federal law.
BUREAU OF HEALTH
For very considerable period
movement has been gathering
strength, especially among the
members of the medical profess
sion, in favor of concentration
of the instruments of the Ma
tional Government which have to
do with the promotion of public health.
In the nature of things, the Medical
Department of the Army and the Med
zeal Department Of the Navy must be
kept separate. Blu. there seems to be no
reason why all the other bureaus and
which have to do with the public
health or subjects akin thereto should
NOT be united in a bureau to be called
the Bureau of Public Health" This
| would necessitate the transfer of the
| ire-Hospital Service to such a bu
reau. 1 am aware that there is
wide field in respect to the public
health committed to the States in
which the Federal Government can nos
exercise jurisdiction, but we have seen
| in the agricultural Department the
expansion into widest usefulness of T.
department giving attention to agri-
culture when that subject is plainly
one over which the States properly ex-
ercise direct jurisdiction. The oppor
| tunities offered for useful research and
the spread of useful information in re-
gard to the cultivation of the soil and
the breeding Of stock and the solution
of many Of the intricate problems In
progressive agriculture have demon.
strated the wisdom of establishing that
department. Similar reasons, of equal
force, can be given for the establish
ment of q bureau of health that shall
not only exercise the police jurisdiction
of the Federal Government respecting
quarantine, but which shall also afford
an opportunity for investigation and
research by competent experts into
questions of health affecting the whole
country, or importar. sections thereof
questions which, in the absence of
Federal governmental work. are not
likely to be promptly solved.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.
The work of the United States Civil
Service Commission has Teen per-
formed to the general satisfaction of
the executive officers with whom the
Commission has been brought into
official communication. The volume of
that work and it's variety and extent
have under new laws, such as the Cen
sus Act, and new Executive orders,
greatly increased. The activities OF
the Commission required by the sta
tutes have reached to every portion of
the public domain.
The accommodations of the Commits.
sion are most inadequate for it's needs.
call your attention to it's request for
increase in those accommodations as
will appear from the annual report for
this year.
Il urgently recommend to Congress
that law be passed requiring that
candidates in election of members of
the house of representatives, and COM
mittees in charge of their candidacy
and campaign. file in a proper Office of
the United States government a state
ment of the contributions received,
and Of the expenditures incurred in
the campaign for such elections, and
that similar legislation be enacted in
respect to other elections which are
constitutionally within the control of
Congress-"
FREEDMEN'S SAVINGS AND.
TRUST COMPANY.
Recommendations have been made
by my predecessors that Congress APP
propriate sufficient sum 10 pay the