Show E 1 j t r G 4 NEW v LAWS NEEDED I J 1 PRESIDENT RESIDENT ASKS IMMEDIATE ATTENTION AT TO WANTS OF PUBLIC DOMAIN l MOST IMPORTANT OF CF ALt ALL v Legislation In Interest of Alaska Is la Imperative Homes Homestead ead Laws Lawa v t Need Revising Revising Leasing Leasing Law Recommended Rec I Cost of 0 t I Would Would Probe Probo 1 Living Washington Feb 2 The 2 The presidents president's I. I special message on the work of the In In- department was read to I today 0 There la Is no branch of ot the Federal Jurisdiction which calls more mora Imperatively Imperative Imperative- e. e ly Jy for tor Immediate legislation than that thai l i which concerns the public domain and especially the part of that domain which Is in Alaska Tho The progress under the reclamation act has made clear the tho defects of at Its limitations limita Lions which should be remedied The he rules governing th the acquisition of homesteads home borne i t of land that haL Is not arid or Ot semiarid semi semi- arid are arc not TV well ell adapted to the perfect perfect- lug of title to land made arable by government gov gov- reclamation work I concur concur with the tho secretary of the Interior In In- In his recommendation that after Is made upon land being reclaimed actual occupation as a homestead of the tho same be not required until two years after aft er I entry but that cultivation of the same shall hall be required d. and that tho the present provision under which the land Is to be bety ty f paid t for r in ten annual Installments shall v J be so modified as 09 to allow a patent issue l for lor the land at the end of ot five years years' J cultivation and three years' years occupation i r with a Ii i reservation of a og government go lien 1 for tor the amount of ot the unpaid purchase f J t money This l leniency to the reclamation homesteader will relieve him from j lion at ot a time when the condition of the land m makes kes It most burdensome and dif dlf- V I and at the tho end of ot five years ears will wlM S furnish him with a title upon which he hei i can borrow barrow money and continue e the Im- Im fJ I of his hii holdings S. S I I also algo concur In th the recommendation y of t the secretary of cd If the Interior that all allt 5 r. r t of our p public bUc domain should be classified S. S S find and that each class class' should be disposed S j a- a of pt or administered In the manner mann r most I S appropriate to that particular class S 1 k The chief change however which ought S to 10 be made and which I have already S S r recommended In previous and anil S communications to congress Is that by gover government c coal a land land and 5 ph phate ate and other otner 1 lands lans containing S non minerals shall be leased by the government with S lions as ns to size and time resembling f S those which now now obtain throughout the country between the owners in fee tee and the lessees who work the mines and In f S. S leases like those which have been most successful ful In Australia New Zealand and S 0 Nova ova Scotia The showing sho made by inS in- in S Into the successful I S of t the leasing s system stem leaves lea no doubt as 88 ast t r S d to its wisdom and practical utility Requirements net Re ne- t S. S as to the working of the mine 5 S during the term may be so framed as to tos S s prevent an any holding of ot large mining properties prop prop- I merely for speculation while the thet theS t S royalties may be made sufficiently low S. S S v not unduly to Increase the cost of ot the i coal roal mined and at the s same me time sufficient S dent to furnish a reasonable income for tol 5 S 'S the use of the public in the community 5 5 5 where the mining goes on In Alaska S i there Is no reason why a substantial inS In- In S 1 come rome should not thus be raised for tor such I S v j public works as may be seemed deemed necessary 5 S sary or useful S There is no difference between the reasons rca rea S sons eons which call for tor the application of the I leasing e tem system tem to the c coal al lands still re retained re- re tamed by the government In the United S I States proper and those which exist In la Alaska I J am m not In favor tavor of ot government ownerS owner- owner A j S shIp chip where the same same certainty and efficiency effi em- S 'S of ot service can be had by private privateS S S enterprise but I think the conditions j I presented In Alaska are of such a ch character char char- rI r- r 5 5 I acter as to warrant the government for tor forS S 1 t the purpose of ot encouraging the developS develop'S development develop develop- S 'S m ment nt of that vast and remarkable ternS territory terri tern S tory to build and own a trunk line railroad rall- rall 0 road which It can lease on terms which S may be varied and changed to meet the thed d growing prosperity and development of of'S S 'S i the territory 5 S For Tor some years past the high and steadIly steadily stead stead- ily hi Increasing cost of oft living has been a a S matter of such grave public concern that 5 I deem ecE It t of ot gre great public Interest that an conference onte ence be proposed at atS' atS S' S S this time for tor the purpose of t f preparing preparing- I Sy plans to be submitted the j 1 f S to various governments governments gov- gov for fot an International Inquiry In Into Into inS In- In S to the high cost cost of living Its extent S 'S cause effects and p possible remedies I therefore recommend that to enable the thet t L president to Invite foreign governments to f such uch a conference to be held at Washington Wash Wash- ashIngton ash ington or elsewhere th the congress provide an en appropriation not to exceed to tol 5 l defray the expenses of prep preparation and of ot participation by the United States t S The magnitude and complexity of ot modern mod mod- St 1 era ern industrial disputes have put upon S 1 some Borne of our statutes and our present I mechanism for tor adjusting such differences f S where we ve can be said to have any S mechanism at all a ill a strain they were 5 5 never nevor intended to bear and for tor which S they are unsuited What is urgently needed needed needed need need- ed to today lay is a re examInation of ot our ur laws 5 S I bearing earing upon the relations of employer employer- employerS S and employ and a 0 car careful ful and S 'S mating scrutiny of the various plans which are tried in several Deveral of 5 i are being our out oury y r. own states and In other countries This 7 would seem to be the first natural step stepS S In tn bringing about an adjustment of these S- S J relations better suited to the newer newer conditions con con- 5 S 'S of Industry 1 J My attention has been called to the inS inJustice in S 'S Justice which Is done In this country by byi i I the sale of articles In the trade purportIng purportIng purport- purport I 1 Ing ng to be made In Ireland w when len they are aret 1 t- t 1 S not BO so made and It lf b fl suggested that the 1 j Justice ustice of the enactment nt of a la law which I S 5 eo so far as the jurisdiction of the federal 5 5 government can go would prevent a S 'S i r continuance of ot this misrepresentation to I IS the public and fraud upon those who vho who'S S 'S are entitled to use the tho statement In the thes I s sale Bate of their thelt goods I think It to be 5 greatly in the interest of fair dealing S S which ought always to be encouraged by S law for Cor congress to enact a law making I S t It a misdemeanor Or punishable by fine or orI I I U I Imprisonment to fa o use the mails malls or to pu put pu 1 S v Into Interstate commerce any articles of ot of'S S r merchandise which b bear nt upon their fco S i a ft statement that they have been manufactured manu- manu 5 S In some particular country when c the tho fact is Otherwise |