The daily Alaskan., 1914-03-09
ALIEN BILL Is
 NONPARTISAN
New Measure Would Increase Supply of Sea Food as a Means of Reducing the Cost of LiVins-5ounty to Fish ermen For Predatory Animals-canaI Symbolic of Universal Peace.
By ARTHUR ". DUNN.

Washington Feb. D. lSpeclal.I- Neither party has made political capi- tai out of the immigration bill Men on both sides of the political aisle fa- vor and oppose the literacy test. which is about all there is to the immigration measure. At the same time the i'm migration bill may figure in politics, particularly if President Wilson should follow the course of President Taft and veto il on the same grounds.
 Such an act will make a great many Democrats sore, because they have championcd the iitcracy test of the i'm migration 0iil. Restriction is what is | aimed at. and no other feasible method has been found to reduce immigration
 If it were not for the fact that the | United States is in no posiJ,o. to dis Criminate among the nations there | Is no doubt that congress would pass q law shutting out certain immigrants | from southern Europe and other lands and allow those of northern Europe to enter. As tlis law cannot be passed on account of the international com plicatious which would ensue, the lit eracy test has been adopted as the means of restriction.
 Fish For Food.
 As a means toward reducing the cost of living, or to increase the sup ply of sea food, Congressman Donovan of Connecticut has introduced bill which would tend to increase the sup ply of food fish by offering q bounty on small sharks, commonly called dog i fish. It has been the custom for va | rious states to offer bOunties for preda- tory animals both large and small. Western members have frequently ia yored bills providing a national bounty for animals which destroy stock and crops. DonOvan's proposition is to give a bounty to fishermen between Passport, Me. and Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. If he would extend l his bill to the entire coast line and then combine with western men he might get q joint measure giving boun- ties to those who catch predatory fish and predatory animals. A great many men in and out of congress agree with Donovan that something ought to be | done to preserve the sea food of the l waters adjacent to the United States
 nCountercheck Quarrelsome." l Like Shakespeare's clown, congress men rarely go to the point of conflict, but they venture through the various stages of a quarrel, as described by the immortal bard. Congressman Thomp- son of Oklahoma was making a speech when Minority Leader Mann said, That statement is incorrect"
 "That is your statement about 1t l deny it."
 ''The gentleman is talking wildly, as usual" said Mann,
 ''The gentleman is talking inaccu- rateIy, as usual" said Thompson.
 And, as Shakespeare says, "SO they measured swords and parted"
 8arthoIdt's Latest.
 Congressman BOrthOldt of Missouri who is known as one of the great peace advocates and is also vigorous in the support of many other public matters, Il proposes to have Esperanto made q part of the regular course of study In the public schools of Washington. Poor old national capital! The pubic schools of the city have had to undergo a great many fads and faucies and experiments and have suffered accordingly.
 Symbolic of Universal Peace.
 Senator NewIands of Nevada has in troduced a bill appropriating half q million dollars to erect at the Panama canal statue which shall be symbolic of universal peace. As the canal was built by the United States primarily for commercial purposes, this is good idea. In reality the canal ma hc usej for war purposes. and the United States intends to make It part uf the national defense.
 Of course there is going to be big monument or statue erected at some poipt on the canal where everybody passing through will see it, but whose will be the important figure to crowr this monument? Hardening back