East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-07

Department OF Justice.
The duties of the department OF
justice have been greatly increased
by legislation of congress. l am glad
to say that under the appropriations
made for the department, the attor-
ney general has improved ITS organ
ization that a vast amount of litiga-
ton of a civil and criminal character
has been disposed of during the cur
rent year.
In a special message last year
brought to the attention of congress
the propriety and wisdom of enacting
a general law providing for the incor-
poration of industrial and other COM
panies engaged in interstate COM
merce, and l renew my recommen-
dation in the behalf.
The president then discusses the
need of cheapening the cost of litiga-
ton by simplifying judicial procedure
and expediting final judgment, rec
ommendation made in his last annual
message of law regulating the is
suing of injunctions in equity with
out notice in accordance with the
best practice now in vogue.
Postoffice Department.
Discussing postal savings banks the
president says:
Arrangements have been perfected
so that postal savings banks will be
opened in some cities and towns on
the first of January, and there will
be a gradual extension of the bene-
fits of the plan to the rest of the
country.
The postmaster general has been
able to make his estimate of expenses
for the present year so low as to keep
within the amount the postal service
is expected to earn.
Upon the recommendation of the
postmaster general 1 have included
in the classified service all assistant
postmasters. I think it would be wise
to put in the classified service the
first, second and third class postmast-
ers.
In my last annual message l in
vited the attention of congress to the
inadequacy of the postal rate impos-
ed upon second class mail matter in
sofar as that includes magazines, and
showed by figures prepared by eX-
perts of the postoffice department
that the government was rendering a
service to the magazine, costing many
millions in excess of the compensa-
ton paid. An answer was attempted
to this by the representatives of the
magazines l agree that the question
is one Of fact; but | insist that, if the
fact is as the experts of the postoffice
department show that we are furnish
ing to the owners of magazines a SER
vice worth millions more than they
pay for than justice requires.
With respect to the parcels post l
recommend its adoption on all rural
delivery routes and that IL pounds
the international limrt-be made the
limit of carriage in such post.
Naval Department.
OF the naval program, the president
says:
The estimates of the navy depart
ment are S5,000,000 less than the ap-
propriations for the same purpose
last year, and included in this, is the
building program of the same
amount as that submitted for your
consideration last year. 1t is merely
carrying out the plan of building two
battleships year, with few needed
auxilaries I hope that this program
will be adopted.
The president recommends that the
secretary of the navy be authorized
to make the necessary expenditure
to create at Guantanamo a naval sta
ton of sufficient size to serve as an
emergency naval base.
The president calls attention to
Peary's discovery of the North Pole
and adds:
l recommend fitting recognition by
congress of the great achievement of
Robert Edwin Peary.