migratory birrs, jack rab
bits, AN!) A LITTLE POLITICAL
MELANGE IN THE U. S. SENATE
IContin-wd from I.nst Issue. >
Mr. Kendrick. .Many ..species- - of
Birds travel clear across the Nation,
-and even beyond. The Senator does
not believe that kind ojf .game can be
protected by the enforcement of State
laws, does he?
Mr. Rill. Well. I-thins e ch'State
has taken care of-the gam-- pretty
well. -
. Mr.-Kendrick.. In so far as they
can protect it they-have done so, but
many birds travel across the country.
They, havedheir noint of starting, we
will say. across the border in Panada
.. and finish .their, trio r-n. the Gulf of
Mexico, or even, beyond.
_Mr. Dilli. - Of-course, as the Senator
knows, they, do-not go in one straight
line; they--.-sjtop in .the.marshes, pools,
lakes, and rivers t-lcgW the way.
Mr. Kendricki . I ask the Senator if
he does not-belie-vii-that is one of the
reasons why-we should, haw bird sane
st tunnies ?
Mr. Dill.I t» objecting to
bir-d. sanctuaries. What I am object
ing to is creating a bird sanctuary
-. and.then establishing a public shoot
ing ground alongside of. it.
. Mr. Lenro-'t, Mr.. President, will
.. the Senator yield ?
Mr. Dill.. Yes I
Mr. Leneoot. In the Senator’s State
there- are-large public areas where
* hunters .can .shoot; but what - has the
Senator* to. say about the situation
that exists in-practically all the States
east of the. Rock; -Mountains, where,
especially with regard to ducks, which
-during their flights alight for feeding,
the preserves in such localities- are
being bought up entirely by wealthy
? „ spoctflbeft. and -the poor hoy *has no
chance to shoot unless the public pro
vides some nieeas whereby he may
3o so?
Mr. Dill T think that is ; matter
* - that paght to *b~ handled by the
States-rather.-than by -th* -.Federal
’-. Government.
Mr. Reed of Missouri. Rut, .Mr.
President, if the Senator will;« ardor
* me—
Mr. Dill. .Yes.
Mr. Reed, of Missouri. The small
* boy who has no place to hunt is then
v expected to go 300 or 400 miles away
i‘\ from .his. home' to one. of- these, sanc
tuaries.. :.Tbat is tue. provisioTr which
.• is being made for hint-by this bill. Let
* us'get the poor boy out of our heads.
This is a bill that was prepared and
has been financed by the manufactur
ers of shotguns, and I am going to
prove it before the day is over.
Mr. Dill. Mr. President, the argu
ment runs right back to the point I
started with in this discussion, name
ly, that if this bill shall pass, we are
going to have such a condition that
every man who wants to go out and
hunt game birds must first buy a Fed
eral license, the money to be paid into
the Treasury of the United States, or
1 to the Postmaster General, I think it
is—I am not certain about the de
> tails—
Mr. Norbeck. Mr. President, will
t the .Senator yield ?
Mr. Dill. Yes.
- -Mr.-Norbeck. Is it not correct to
say -that every man who wants to
hunt must buy a Federal license?
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Mr. Dill. If he wishes to hunt mi
gratory game birds, it is.
Mr. Norbeck. In the first place, nc
license is required if a man hunts or
his own land even if he hunts migra
tory birds; and. in the second place
there, is. no license, required for boys
under 16 years of age.
Mr. Dill. I am not talking about
boys of 16 years, or older. Let us
talk about the man who owns a quar
ter of a section of land somewhere
and can not do any hunting beyond il
without being arrested. What this
bill ought to do is to provide for bird
sanctuaries that are desired—I have
no objection to that—and then provide
that the birds in those sanctuaries
should be protected there. I have nr
objection to the appointment of Fed
eral officials for that purpose. What
I object to is providing an enormous
Federal fund here and then and ther
providing that 40 per cent of it car
he used in the administration of this
law.
Mr. Overman. Mr. President, the
bill provides for an appropriation oi
$50,000 from the Treasury to estab
lish a great bureau here.
Mr. Dill. To start with, yes; but
they propose to maintain it by the
funds that come in from these lic
enses. The Senator from South Da
kota said a while ago that he did not
expect to have more than two game
wardens in a State. Then why does
not the bill limit the amount that can
be spent for game wardens? The
Senator knows they are talking about
having from one to five million dollars
a year come in to this fund.
Mr. Norbeck. Some people talk
about one to five millions. Some peo
ple talk all kinds of figures. There is
no roof on the imagination.
Mr. Dill. What does the Senator
think the receipts will be?
Mr. Norbeck. From half a million
dollars to a million,
Mr. Dill. Let us say front half a
million dollars to a- million, then.
Forty per cent of half a million dol
lars is $200,000, and 40 per cent of a
million dollars is $400,000
Mr. Norbeck. All right. Divide
that up between 48 States and the
Territory of Abtska, and how many
game wardens . do you get in each
Diace?
. Mr. Dill. tOf?xwurse, i »m taking
the Senator’s limit of half a million
to a million dollars, of which 40 per
cent would, be $200,000 or $400,000.
The Senator, of-course, assumes that
there will not be over a. milioln people
in this country that will want to hunt
these migratory birds. The Senator
must know that there are two or
three times that many people who
hunt them, and nobody is going to be
deterred by a $1 license. The license
rate is fixed at $1 so that anybody
will feel free to buy a license; but un
derneath it is the proposition of set
ting up a lot of Federal game wardens
all over the United States. If the
Senator wants to limit them to one or
two to a State, why does he not put
such a limitation in the bill? Why
does he not limit the amount of
money that can be spent for this sort
of business? Instead of that we have
thrust before us here a bill with a
possibility of spending a million or
two million dollar for its administra
tion.
Mr. Tyson. Mr. President, will the
Senator yield?
Mr. Dill. Yes, 1 yield.
Mr. Tyson. 1 wish to say that in
reporting on this bill the Secretary of
Agriculture specifically states that 4.C
per cent of the receipts will be neces
sary in order to enforce it properly.
Mr. Dill. How is he going to en
force it?
Mr. Tyson. He will enforce it in
the usual way.
Mr. Dill. What is the usual way ?
Mr. Tyson. That is to say, by .hav
ing game wardens and other things.
Game wardens are not the only tilings
they are going to spend money for.
Let me read what he s^y.s:
“The 60-40 per cent division of the
funds is entirely satisfactory t,o the
Department, but a reduction below 40
per cent of the receipts would not
provide sufficient funds, for the nroper
enforcement and administration of the
laws mentioned and woidd-'taot meet
with the approval of .the7 Depart
ment.”
There art many other things that
this money would be used for besides
game wardens.
Mr. Dill. The Senator says “many
other things.” Let us have some of
them.
Mr. Tyson. As a matter of fact, a
great many things are done in order
to protect game in the matter of their
health, their dying out, and doing
other things that have to he done by
other departments.
Mr. Dill. Is this fund to he used
for propagation ?
Mr. Tyson. It is to be used for any
purpose that is necessary to protect
and defend and look after the game
of the United States.
Mr. Dill. Is this a hill to propagate
turds ’’
Mr.'Tysiui. Anything that is nec
essary to preserve, the game of the
Unite?! States.
Mr. Dill. The Senator knows and
we all know that this money is to he
j used for the enforcement of the law
I in the. ordinary way, and that is by
' game wardens. The Department of
Agriculture approves using 40 per
. cent of it for that purpose. I am not
surprised at that. I never knew a
man who is given power to appoint
men who did not want power to ap
point all that the law would let him
appoint; and of course these men
would like to build ut> a system o*
Federal officials th oughout: this coun
try to control the migratory birds and
have them around somewhere, watch
ing everybody who has a license. If
this is primarily a bird sanctuary bill,
then I think it ought to he written
from the standpoint of establishing a
bird sanctuary, in cad of being pri
marily a public shooting bill, for that
is what it is.
Mr. Kendrick. Mr. President, will
the Senator yield '*
Mr. Dill. Y.
Mr. Kendrick, t want to ask the
Senator in all fairness if he would
favor the establishment of bird sanc
tuaries without providing some means I
to protect the. birds in the sanctu-;
aries ?
Mr. Dill. Oh, no I said a moment
i ago that if we r tablish those bird i
| sanctuaries 1 am in favor of havinp j
: provision in the law for men to pro- |
Sect the bird- in the sanctuaries, and
1 would not. let any shooters go in and
shoot there or in any public grounds
alongside of .tie in .either.
Mr. Kendrick. The Senator fron !
i South Dakota insists that no shooting I
is to be allowed uitnin the sanctuary.
Mr. -'Dili. Mo; thev cell the part
where they-' allow shooting a. public
shooting ground. . They do not eall
that a sanctuary. That is the ontv
! difference.
I Mr.. Kendrick, in th protection of
| tho birds, would th' Set. tor prefer a
'direct appropriation fot that purpose
lor would he prefe the charging of i
! fees for licenses for hunting?
Mr. Dill. I would prefer a direct
appropriation to buy whatever bird
sanctuaries are necessary. 1 am not
in favofl of a Federal license for the
shooting of migratory birds.
Mr. Kendrick. 1)< the laws of the
Senator’s State provide for licenses
for hunting?
Mr. Dill. They do, to be paid to
each county for a county license, or
you may buy a State license.
Mr. Kendrick. Dots the Senator
Senator have any information that
there is any surplus of game warders
under such provisions of law? in his
own State?
Mr. Dill. Well, we have enough
game wardens, and 1 want to say that
some of the most contemptible char
acters that I know in the sporting
world are some of these game war
dens, who try to trap men into viola
tions of the law.
Mr. Kendrick. The Senator’s ex
perience along that line has been
somewhat different from mine.
Mr. DilL I have had some experi
ence as a prosecuting attorney where
I had to prosecute their cases, arid 1
know something o' tin ir methods, and !
I do not approve of them. I want to I
say in fairness: tu at the rank and file
of them do a great service. The rank
: and file Of them are fair. The rank
| and file of ’them ire really trying to
. protect the game and are not trying
to ensnare the hunters. I want to be
fair in what I say in regard to them,
but it is the exceptions that discredit
the whole force
Mr. Kendrick Exactly. Now, is
it not true, and does not the Senator
recognize the fact, that the present
force is entirely inadequate to admin
ister the law over- ueh vast territory
as we find in the West, even- under
favorable condi f ions ?
Mr. Dill. I cannot agree with the
Senator that the present force is in
adequate ; but it it is inadequate, the
matter ought to be taken care of by
the State, and we ought not to set up
a Federal game commission here in
Washington, D. €., to extend out all
over the United States. I am opposed
to that.
Mr. Tysor .V President., f shouk
like to ask the Senator if he kriov s
hnw many gang wardens there are in
the United State, now?
Mr. Dill. No, 1 do not know hoe
many there are in the United States
Mr. Tyson. There are just -17, as I
understand.
Mr. Dill. The Senator means Fed
eral game wardens?
Mr.-Tyson. Yes; Federal game
wardens
Mr. Dill. U the Senator ft am
South Dakota will put in the bill a
provision that there should be onlv
one game war, . jn each State in ad
dition to the present, ones, and then
limit this hiil t<, . bird sanctuary hill.
1 should not oh rt to it.
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formation regarding Mike. Smith, o*
Schmidt, fori: - I of Buffalo, N. Y.
®'h' followed h< business of gold
mining for a! thirty years. An>
information in 'cgard to him would
be gladlv r d by the Governor’*
office *n 'Pd transmit same to
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