The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-02-09

any railroad .stock, nor did any rail
roads own him, but he wanted TO ee
justice done
Nallinl wanted to know how peo-
%. usually went hunting. whether on
tie railroads o. on horseback? lie
was oup sed 10 any law that allowed
a single live or dead bird taken out of
the territory.
Loacrs omeu e1 to allow q e gam.
shipped out lu lim,t,d quantlti,s
Kuipc wanted it left So that DC
could ship out his live game if he
wanted TO.
Lowcry's amendment was carried.
When that part Of the bill relating
to fish was reached, Elliot offered an
amendment exempting private ponds.
Carried.
Smith offered a funny amend
ment which would allow persons to
catch small minnows, not over ten
feet in length for bait, which was not
entertained
Knipe asked to be excused, whi h
was done
Before leaving, he introduced by
consent:
House bill rs, relating to pharma-
cists
No l76, providing for the payment
into the hool fund Of moneys re-
ceived for liquor licenses.
No. III, relating to notice of appli-
cation for liquor licenses.
Recess until . p. IN.
Afternoon.
Upon the house coming to order in
the afternoon, Sutton moved that
house bill l55, fixing the date when
taxes shall become a lein upon prop
erty, be recommitted to the ways
and means committee.
Spencer was noted present and eX
cused for an hour or so.
Consideration Of fish and game bill
was resumed.
Smith asked that the Salt Fork Of
luc hThdu~dH bt luNluu'u WIN wv
other big rivers.
Elliott and Hogan were opposed TO
seiuing at any time or place.
Lowery offered an amendment al
Loving game to be killed for the local
market
Elliott opposed the amendment.
Chas Brown stated that he wa~salso
opposed to the amendment, giving as
his reason therefor that in hls elec
tioncering trips he had been requested
by one Of his good Republican fIiend,
to do all he could to enact laws to
keep any gaue from being killed for
| five years.
lie was thereupon informed by
Lowery that all the cranks were MOI
by any means confined to the Populist
party.
VicIlers wanted to deny the aSser
/ ton which bad been made that there
was no game in the western counties
as there was plenty of it.
Boyer thought that the game b.
lougcd to the man who owned the
| land.
Ne,bitt opposed the amendment
Quail did not eat bugs and Waits
offered a premium for any bug founC
in quail's craw.
Lowery's amendment was lost
Vickers offered an amendmen
changing the time to fifteen DAYS late
in October and fifteen days earlier il
February for quail shooting.
Mason opposed the amend ment.
The amendment vas adopted.
The committee rose.
A vote on the adoption of the who'll
bill was had aud resulted 2l, for and
against, Knipr, Bradheld and Jane
Brown being absent.
In voting against this bill, Lower.
Nsubmittrd his written reasons, statinj
that III the bill became law,
would uant monopoly to ~p prtsmeI
of the right not only to kill, but to ca
all the game in the territory Any on
who could not kill his own gam
could not procure it at any price, a
any season, without some one violai
ing the law. Further that he bC
lieved this To be an outrage upon
number OF poor men in mis- county
VINO were now prohibited from KILN
game on their own farms in the ope
seas n in small way to supply tn
: local markets
Mes 6itt moved that the vote jus
had be reconsidereG and the motto
, lie on the table. Carried.
Vickers moved that the written e.
I planation be placed on the records nj
side down SO that it would attract a
, tenti0n
Y Lowery came back with the remar
that if this were done the gentlema
y could more easily read il, as he ha
been on his head all day.
= With this little pleasantly, the 6i
I was left in peace.
n The committee on county and tow
r. ship organization reported favorab
e on house bill 1913, by Knipe, authori
: ing vacation of townsites in certa
cases.
10 On motion of Elliott, the hou
y went into committee of the whole (
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