For this reason I cordially commend to the consideration of Congress the recommendations of the Acting Secretary of State.

In view of the interest and importance of the subject to the public, and especially to the business community, I also suggest that authority be given for the printing of a special edition of 5,000 copies of the Acting Secretary's letter.

I also inclose a letter from the Secretary of War, submitting the reports for my consideration.

I transmit herewith, for the information of the Congress, the annual report of the Philippine Commission.

The consulting engineers should not be put on the Commission, which should be used only as an executive instrument for the executive and administrative work.

The general plans for the work must be agreed upon with the aid of the best engineers of the country, who should act as an advisory or consulting body.

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a report by the Secretary of State concerning the importance of reform in our extraterritorial judicial system in China and Korea.

Of these men the one appointed as administrator of the Canal Strip should also serve as minister to Panama.

The Commission should consist of five, or preferably three, members, whose respective duties, powers, and salaries should be assigned to them by the President.

Actual experience has convinced me that it will be impossible to obtain the best and most effective service under the limitations prescribed by law.

Their acts were in plain violation of the letter of the statute, but the case presented is not an aggravated one, and I believe that their severance from the academy, their reduction to the foot of the class of which they were members, and…

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of the Congress, a communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to the reestablishment of the boundary line between the State of Colorado and the Territories of New Mexico and…

The matter is presented for the consideration of the Congress.

I transmit herewith a report, by the Secretary of Agriculture, of the operations of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1904, in compliance with the requirements of section 11…

I think it should be passed.

Mrs. Elizabeth C. Peters may be reinstated to the position of sewer in the Government Printing Office without regard to the provision of Rule IX limiting the period of eligibility for reinstatements to one year from the date of separation.

I earnestly recommend its passage by the present Congress.

It is a pleasure to greet the members of the American Forest Congress.