684 Presidential Addresses 



condition where scientific methods are essential to its 

 successful prosecution. The administration features 

 of forest reserves are at present unsatisfactory, being 

 divided between three Bureaus of two Departments. 

 It is therefore recommended that all matters per- 

 taining to forest reserves, except those involving 

 or pertaining to land titles, be consolidated in 

 the Bureau of Forestry of the Department of 

 Agriculture. 



The cotton-growing States have recently been in- 

 vaded by a weevil that has done much damage and 

 threatens the entire cotton industry. I suggest to 

 the Congress the prompt enactment of such rem- 

 edial legislation as its judgment may approve. 



In granting patents to foreigners the proper course 

 for this country to follow is to give the same advan- 

 tages to foreigners here that the countries in which 

 these foreigners dwell extend in return to our citi- 

 zens; that is, to extend the benefits of our patent 

 laws on inventions and the like where in return the 

 articles would be patentable in the foreign countries 

 concerned where an American could get a corre- 

 sponding patent in such countries. 



The Indian agents should not be dependent for 

 their appointment or tenure of office upon considera- 

 tions of partisan politics ; the practice of appointing, 

 when possible, ex-army officers or bonded superin- 

 tendents to the vacancies that occur is working well. 



