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man who was appointed originally as Canadian commis- 

 sioner, resigned early in the fall, in order to accept a more 

 lucrative position with the Canadian government, and Pro- 

 fessor Edward E. Prince was selected to succeed him. The 

 commission as thus constituted met in Washington, D. C, 

 in June, held a number of conferences, and finally made its 

 report to the respective governments on the 3rd of June 

 last. 



Following the recommendations of the State Department 

 and of the Department of Marine and Fisheries of Canada, 

 a number of matters which ordinarily would seem proper to 

 liave Ix-eu included in the report were not included. Many 

 matters in the report as it has been finally submitted, or many 

 matters that might have been in it, have been omitted, and 

 have been left to the respective states. 



The report, as I say, was filed with the Secretary of State 

 on the 3rd of June, and with the Canadian government on 

 the same date. The report has not been promulgated by our 

 government and will not be until Congress meets in Decem- 

 ber, when it will doubtless go to Congress in a message from 

 the President, and go to the Canadian government at the 

 same time. The recommendations in the report, I think, are 

 known in a general way to the commissioners of the various 

 states interested, and to the fishing interests along the line 

 on both sides; but of course the report as a report will not 

 be given out until it is made public by the President and by 

 the proper authorities in Canada. 



While the report may not contain everything which some 

 of us think it should contain, it will doubtless serve as a 

 beginning, as an entering wedge, which will work toward 

 the solution of all of the difficult questions pertaining to the 

 international waters. 



It is interesting to call attention to the fact that there is 

 growing up in Congress a very strong sentiment in favor of 

 federal control of interstate waters. That feeling has been 

 engendered and has been strengthened from two sources or 

 because of two conditions— one the condition of the fisheries 



