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...proposed artificial restocking, restriction of fishing and prevention of the pollution of waters by dumping of chemicals, factory wastes, etc. Some measures have already been taken by Congress. There is a new law against dumping of oil by oil-burning vessels; drastic restrictions have been placed on the Alaskan salmon fisheries; the upper Mississippi River has been set aside as a breeding ground; a halibut treaty has been signed with Canada...
...many years Elihu Root has been generally spoken of as the foremost international lawyer in the U. S. Mr. Root, as a member of the Alaskan boundary Tribunal (1903), as U. S. Secretary of State in President Roosevelt's cabinet (1905-1909), as counsel for the U. S. in the North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration (1910), as a member of the Hague Tribunal since 1910, as one of the Commission of International Jurists which, on invitation of the League, reported the plan for the World Court (established 1921), as Commissioner Plenipotentiary for the U. S. at the Washington Arms Limitation...
...Passed a House bill giving the Secretary of Commerce authority to close portions of Alaskan waters in order to preserve fish. ¶Passed a bill, proposed by Senator Pittman, authorizing the Treasury to purchase silver in order to rescue American silver mines from depression...
John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York: "In a letter to the Brooklyn Teachers' Association I advocated an Alaskan-California-Canadian Rockies tour by Brooklyn teachers. Said I: 'The glint of crystalline rocks . . . the indescribable beauty . . . the splashing waterfalls, the lakes . . . and the nestling homes in the crotches of tree limbs of our feathered friends restore to the wanderer that sense of possession of the instinctive heritage of all mankind. . . 'Summer or winter, day or night The woods are an ever new delight...
...Luscious salmon from Alaska were the cause of a letter from President Coolidge to Chairman Jones of the Senate Commerce Committee. He renewed a recommendation, made in his message at the opening of Congress, that the bill for conserving the Alaskan fisheries, which Secretary Hoover has strongly advocated, be passed...