New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-08
4 BITTER GAME LAW FIGHT.
SEEKING TO HAVE AN OBJECTIONABLE
SECTION ELIMINATED.
THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF GAME
INSISTS THAT THE PRESENT SITUATION
Is MOST DEPLORARIE.

This winter will mastering OF the clans OF
both sides OF question hat divides the sportsman
ard the marke tman on The subject OF preserving
the game and fish that have been carefully fosered
for many years. Robert B. Lawrence. secretary
OF the New-York Association for the Protection Of
Fish and Game. says: The marketmen have gained
their victory and they will spend their last dollar
to keep H.. They look the selling OF game IN
the closed season a vested right now. SO long
as the present flaw in the game laws is allowed to
exist the enforcement Of the protection OF FISH and
game in NewYork State is a farce
The association is working hard to have repealed
the statute enacted last spring. l. has sent out
many copies of a circular which reads:
Section 2ls Of our game laws Is shame and
the sale Of game during the whole year and is solely
in the interests OF the cold storage companies Of
closing hours of last winters iegsiaton 1t is
true that it provides that game must be killed at
projection 70 game and It is certainly most unfair
to the sister States which are endeavoring to pro-
State fence for game gotten Illegally Ii must
be repealed at the coming Leg.sal IRE. and | re,
and gun club to put forward every -Xerton to that
lay the matter before them; appoint an influential
committee to wait on all candidates for your To-
plain the matter to them and get their pledges to
support bill for repeal Of Section 2is OF the 1885
Game Laws, and follow It UP after election by
seeing The successful candidates and securing re-
newals Of their pledges
lar sent out by President Frank J. Amsden OF
Rochester.
Mr.. Lawrence said the crying fault OF the 1895
Game Laws this unfortunate Section no. 2i9
and he drew a copy Of the Fish and Game Law OF
the State OF NewYork from his desk. The follow
Ing is a copy Of the section over which there has
been 50 much discussion:
Section Pc. No person or persons shall be deemed
to have violated any aw or ordinance By reason OF
his their selling. exposing for sale Transporting
or possessing. or attempting so to 90; the body o.
a part Of the body Of any via a,;n..I or
bird, provided It be proved by him OF them
o: Express receipts tnat such wild animal
or or e %@s S lr5n The sf a. &cwYSrk For
The purpose o: the proper enforcement Of this Sec
ton the package containing TINS Mid animal or
OF sh pment ana destination snail also be plainly
marked. An transportation companies watch snaH
INK ,bo recria: aud delivery OF such packages o.
g@nc and dealers in The same shall Keep books II
scnoiinI showine the lumber Of BIRDS or animals
r-c lived. sod OT delivered ~ thcm, ana snail az
al iiaes permit any authorized gent Of the Com
mis- sioncrs o- T.sn,riee Game and Forest 20 *
amino ther books " record 'or puTposc OF rs,an-
ton IN close season.
ct is clear" sent oa M Lawrence. that The
marketing Of al fish and game during close season
IS permit cd provided Il can be shown that such
fish or game VAS SHIPPED from a point at least 800
miles distant from New York" And rGh, here NJ.
Lawrence proceeded 10 put a weapon into the
snemys hands The section does not provide for
The killing % FISH game 1t distance OF 80
miles from NewYork. but only that It shall have
been shipped from at least that distance In order
% be Legally salable Ia Ncw-York state. Here
said Mir Lawrence. "is big chance for fraud.
The result 81 the present Jaws Is that every society
Interested in tie protection or preservation OF game
and hsn IS met with the probability OF having -
face manufactured evidence II Il tries 10 obtain
any convictions Nj. Lawrence thinks that VITA
This exception the present game laws arc BETTE
though
IS one other bad game law IN The code. This % due
10 the omission Of one word in section 10. making
that section imperative THIS section deals wit.
Tie "closc" seas IN for meadow hen ana other birds
IN Long Island Tho lacking word l. except"
The result 81 The present law is seen on every
s.dc. Tn, markets are noOded with game from The
.3iG storage conipancs' warehouses. TINS has been
noticed all summer but II was even more notice
ole asst month. when On. SAW quttl exposed -.
.aio Oh an sides when they should rot he seen a
The stalls until November. II Is even sad thlt
come dealers wise enough To sc this ally
Killing OF the goose that lays The golden eggs that
Is going on IN the slaughter of game at present.
and would OF themselves ask ,hei: representatives