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Boundary and Water Commission as an autocratic and dic- tatorial body possessing vast and unlimited powers. The truth is that the general administration of the treaty is confided to the International Boundary Commission created under the treaty of 1889 with Mexico, which ever since that date has been exercising powers and jurisdiction along the Mexican boundary similar in all respects to those im- posed upon it by the present treaty. Never have any charges been leveled against that Commission that it acted arbitrarily or in violation of the trust imposed upon it. The best evidence of this is the fact that while it was originally set up as a temporary body, it was made permanent by the Convention of 1900. This Commission has carried to a successful conclusion many enterprises of prime local, na- tional and international importance along the Mexican boundary. The treaty simply extends this jurisdiction to supervision over the treaty provisions. It is quite apparent that the discharge of international functions and obligations must be in the hands of an international agency. and not left to local interests. In fact, the powers of the Commission and its National Sections are narrowly circumscribed. In the first place they are confined to the discharge of purely international func- tions along the Mexican boundary, and its jurisdiction over works is confined to those on or along the boundary which are concerned exclusively with the discharge of treaty functions. There is left to the interior agencies of the gov- ernment the control and operation of those interior facilities which are to be used only in part for the performance of treaty functions. By the express terms of the treaty the two governments exercise an absolute veto power over the decisions of the Commission. Certain works necessary for the execution of the treaty are specifically provided for, 8