The Days of a Man 1:1909 



The treaty unfortunately required that our report 

 should be presented on January i, 1909, a period far 

 too short considering the many factors involved. But 

 we were doing our best when, toward the very end of 

 First the year, progress was suddenly interrupted by the 

 setback resignation of Bastedo, who had been appointed head 

 of a pension system just adopted by Canada, a per- 

 manent position better fitted to his tastes and train- 

 ing than the fisheries work. This proved a distinct 

 misfortune so far as our purposes were concerned, as 

 had the report been presented while Roosevelt re- 

 mained President he would have immediately ac- 

 cepted it and proclaimed its adoption, and certain 

 needed amendments could have been later secured 

 by joint agreement. 



Bastedo's withdrawal having made a joint report 

 impracticable. Root agreed with Sir Wilfrid Laurier 

 to extend the time another year, and Dr. Edward 

 Prince Emest Ptiuce, a well-trained English naturalist, then 

 fishery commissioner for the Dominion, was appointed 

 to the vacant position. The following summer (1909) 

 we made a second and much more complete survey, 

 consulting with the fish commissions of all the states 

 and provinces along the road, as well as holding public 

 conferences with fishermen and fishing corporations. 

 Our investigation extended from St. John River in 

 New Brunswick along the whole border to the Nass, 

 the majestic stream separating British Columbia from 

 Alaska. 



At Washington, Anderson had meanwhile aided 

 me by looking after the phrasing of our developing 

 regulations, suggesting forms of statement usual in 

 similar documents. But his relation to the Depart- 

 ment temporarily ceased with the beginning of the 



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succeeas 

 Bastedo 



