Mohave County miner., 1916-12-09

the other measures to which I refer; because at least two years will elapse before another election in which fed .eraI offices are to be filled; but it would greatly relieve the public mind if this important matter were dealt with while the circumstances and the dan gers to the public morals of the pres ent method of obtaining and spending campaign funds stand clear under re- cent observation and the methods of expenditure can be frankly studied in the light of present experience; and a delay would have the further very serious disadvantage of postponing ac- tion until another election was at hand and some special object connected with it might be thought to be in the mind of those who urged it. Action can be taken now with facts for guidance and without suspicion of partisan purpose.
 shall not argue at length the de- sirability of giving freer hand in the matter of combined and concerted ef- fort to those whoSsha1 undertake the essential enterprise of building upour export trade. That enterprise will presently, will immediately assume, has indeed already assumed, magni- tude unprecedented in our experience. We have not the necessary instrument talities for it's prosecution; it is deemed to be doubtful whether they could be created upon an adequate scale under our present laws. We should clear away all legal obstacles and create a basis of undoubted law for it which will give freedom without permitting unregulated license. The thing must be done now, because the opportunity is here and may escape us if we hesitate or delay.
 The argument for the proposed amendments of the organic law of Porto Rico is brief and conclusive. The present laws governing the island and regulating the rights and privileges of it's people are not just. We have ere ated expectations of extended privilege which we have not satisfied. There is uneasiness among the people of the island and even a suspicious doubt with regard to our intentions concern ing them which the adoption of the pending measure would happily re- move. We do not doubt what we wish to do in any essential particular. We ought to do it at once.
 At the last session of the congress a bill was passed by the senate which provides for the promotion of voca- tional and industrial education which is of vital importance to the whole country because it concerns a matter too long neglected and upon which the industrial preparation of the country for the critical years of eco- homie development immediately ahead of US in very large measure depends. May I not urge its early and favorable by the house of repre- sentatives and it's early enactment into law? It contains plans which affect all interests and all parts of the coun- try, and I am sure that there is no legislation now pending before the congress whose passage the country awaits with more thoughtful approval or greater impatience to see a great and admirable thing set in the way of being done.
 There are other matters already ad- vanced to the stage of conference be- tween the two houses of which it is not necessary that I should speak. Some practicable basis of agreement con- ,erning them will no doubt be found and action taken upon them.
 Inasmuch as this is, gentlemen, the last occasion I shall have ,o address the sixty-fourth congress, I nope that you will permit me to say with what genuine pleasure and satis- faction I have cooperated with you in .he many measures of constructive policy with which you have enriched he legislative annals of the country. It has been a privilege to labor in such take the liberty of con- you upon the completion ,f record of rare serviceableness and distinction.
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