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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 Erie 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 tbe 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 ot 

 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 laid 

 aside as ;i matter of secondary importance. 



One of the first men to become interested, to recognize the importance 

 • if 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 



