else; and carrying the investigation still further it has been proved on 
more than one occasion that Cumberland, Maryland, is responsible for at 
least some of the typhoid epidemics at Washington. The waters of the 
Potomac become infected at Cumberland, many miles above Washington, 
and the germs are carried from there and people infected. The District of 
Columbia, of course, is absolutely powerless in the premises; it can do noth- 
ing. The State of Maryland has done nothing, and the outlook is not en- 
couraging. I do not believe Maryland will do anything to remedy the 
difficulty. It affects not only the District of Columbia, but every town 
between Cumberland and the District of Columbia, so that in that case 
the matter of public health is concerned in Maryland, the District of Co- 
lumbia and Virginia. 
A little more than a year ago the United States and Great Britain 
entered into a treaty providing for the appointment of an international 
Fisheries Commission, with power to draw up regulations governing the 
fisheries in international waters between the United States and Canada. 
That treaty specified the waters—from Passamaquoddy Bay on the east 
to Puget Sound on the west—taking in all of the Great Lakes except 
Michigan. As I see it, the principal point, the principal necessity for that 
treaty was to secure a set of uniform regulations for these waters. Un- 
der it, fishing on one side, in Canada, and in Ohio, Pennsylvania or New 
York, on the other, as far as Lake Evie is concerned would be the same. 
There would not be the conflicts which now exist. It does not seem to 
me that that treaty was necessary in order that the Federal government 
might take control of the fisheries in these waters, and for some reasons 
it would have been better if they could have brought about federal control 
of fisheries in these waters without entering into a treaty between the 
two countries. There may be some little risk in giving a foreign nation 
a hand in determining what shall be the regulations in the waters of 
Ohio, of Michigan, Pennsylvania or New York, and make it impossible 
for the United States to change the fisheries regulations on our side of 
the line without the consent of another country. But that may be Inid 
aside as a matter of secondary importance. 
One of the first men to become interested, to recognize the importance 
of the question of federal control in these matters was George Shiras 
III, a grandson of Chief Justice Shiras, an angler, sportsman and _ all- 
round naturalist, who is very much interested in the preservation of game 
