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partment under existing law; others require action by the Con- 

 gress. The department concurs in the following suggestions 

 made by the governor and recommends legislation to give them 

 effect: (1) That protection be withdrawn from brown bears. These 

 are a menace to the sheep and cattle industries in Alaska and are so 

 abundant as not to need further protection. (2) That the expor- 

 tation of walrus ivory be wholly prohibited. This is essential to the 

 preservation of the walrus, which forms an important source of food 

 and clothing for the natives. The present restrictions upon the Idll- 

 ing of this animal have proved inadequate to conserve it. (3) That 

 nonresidents be required to obtain licenses to hunt deer and goats, as 

 in the case of other big game. This is necessary for the proper super- 

 vision of hunting in the Territory. (4) That residents of Alaska be 

 permitted to obtain two $10 and two $5 shipping licenses in each year. 

 It is a useless hardship to restrict them to one of each of these licenses 

 when under the law they may have more than one head or trophy 

 of the animals they wish to ship. There may be ambiguity in the 

 law. If so, it should be removed. (5) That residents of Alaska 

 who wish to have specimens of big game mounted be permitted, 

 without charge, to send them to the States to be mounted and 

 returned. (6) That game wardens be authorized to procure war- 

 rants for the search of premises where game killed in violation of 

 law may be secreted. 



TOBACCO STATISTICS. 



During the year the present methods employed by the Depart- 

 ments of the Treasury, of Commerce, and of Agriculture in collecting 

 tobacco statistics were considered by an interdepartmental committee. 

 Its task was to devise a plan to eliminate duplication of work and 

 unnecessary expense and to make the statistics more complete and 

 more easily available to the public. The committee submitted three 

 recommendations, which have been approved by the departments 

 concerned. The first two require congressional action. 



(1) That the act of April 30, 1912 (37 Stat., 106), authorizing 

 the Bureau of the Census to collect tobacco statistics, be repealed, 

 and that hereafter that bureau gather only such facts about tobacco 

 as are incidental to the decennial census of agriculture and the quin- 

 quennial census of manufactures. 



(2) That authority be given to the Bureau of Internal Revenue 

 to extend the statistics collected by it to include the principal types 



