Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-12-05

Wilful violation or the presidential
proclamations relating to alien enc
mics promulgated under section 4O67
of the revised statutes and providing
appropriate punishments; and women
as well as men should be included
under he terms of the acts placing
restraints upon alien enemies.
Suggests imprisonment
II is likely that as time goes on many
alien enemies will be willing to be
fed and housed at the expense of the
government in detention camps, and
it would be the purpose of the legis-
lation | have suggested to confine Of
tenders among them In penitentiaries
and other similar institutions where
they could be made to work as other
criminals do.
Recent experience has convinced
me that the congress must go further
in authorizing the government to set
limits to prices. The law of supply and
demand. | am sorry to say. has been
replaced by the law of unrestrained
selfishness. While we have eliminated
profiteering in several branches of in
dustry it still remains impudently
rampant in others.
Farmers Complain
The farmers, for example, complain
with a great deal of justice that, while
the regulation of food prices restricts
their incomes, no restraints are placed
upon the prices of most of the things
they must themselves purchase; and
s;p,;io. in;ou;f;aS otto;r - IN .;loo
1t is imperatively necessary that
the consideration of the full use OF
the water power of the country and
also the consideration of the sys-
tematic and yet economical develop
ment of such of the natural resources
of the country as are still under the
control of the federal government
should be Immediately resumed and
arfirmatively and constructively dealt
with at the earliest possible moment
The pressing need of such legisla-
ton is daily becoming more and more
obvious. The legislation proposed at
the last session with regard to regu-
lated combinations among our export
ers in order to provide for our for
eign trade a more effective organiza-
ton and method of cooperation
ought by all means to be completed at
this session.
Recommends Financial Committee
And | beg that the members of the
house of representatives will permit
me to express the opinion that it will
be impossible to deal in any way but
a very wasteful and extravagant fash
ion with the enormous appropriations
of the public moneys which must
continue to be made IL the war is to
be properly sustained. unless the
house will consent to return to its
former practice of initiating and pre-
pairing all appropriation bills through
a single committee in order that re-
sponsibility may be conferred. expendi-
lures standardized and made uniform
and waste and duplication as much
as possible avoided
Additional legislation may also be,
come necessary before the present
congress adjourns in order to affect
the most efficient coordination and
operation of the railway and other
transportation systems of the coun-
try; but to that l shall, if circum-
stances should demand. call the at
tention of congress upon another &C.
casion.
If | have overlooked anything that
ought to be done. for the more eff
fective conduct of the war, your own
counsels will supply the omission.
What am perfectly clear about is that
in the present session of the congress
our whole attention and energies
should be concentrated on the vigor-
GUS and rapid and successful prosecu-
ton of the great task of winning the
war.
America Was Forced
We can do this with all the greater
zeal and enthusiasm because we know
that for us this is war of high prin-
ciple, debased by no selfish ambition
of conquest or spoilation; because we
know. and all the world knows. that
we have been forced into II to save
the very institutions we live under
from corruption and destruction. The
purposes of the central powers strike
straight at the very heart of every
thing we believe in; their methods OF
warfare outrage every principle of
humanity and of knightly honor; their
intrigue has corrupted the very
thought and spirit of many of our
peoples. Their sinister and secret