The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-20

don't Impose such a thing a. Rtnls bulIopii1
the people OF Virginia. for It you az there g
will come up such d howl from ell part =
Of the Commonwealth as you have seldom
heard. !"
81 Mr.. Lyle offered an amendment. yoins
eyen further than tho one proposed By
MIR. Bryant. II u. Re ti B s,i III. b
33SThe principle Of tho bill was defended
md advocated BY Mr.. Tyler. H said
Il It was pnrposcd to pass a general game
law # would be absurd not to provide the
machinery to make tho law operative.
The proposed license tax was Of utmost @
Importance, for here would DO need Of
means to enforce the law. 8. Mr.. tyler
did not agree with others that game
8found Upon private lands was the per-
so1al property Of the owner Of the
grounds. II that view were hold as cor
rect, he said that q law to protect game
need not BIO passed. ID.
Mr.. Mc1lwnlne said that II the pro-
posed amendment as TO non-residents
should be pnssed.ia hundred or more nom
residents could combine and buy d tract
of land IN this State and hunt without
license over that entire area. IL why
said Mr., Mc1lwaine, tho entire hunting
preserves OF tho State might be purchased,
and non-resIdcnts hunt without license
Throughout the whole State"
OPPOSED j THE BILL.
q Mr. salo was opposed to the bill with
or without amendments. He cared not
what other states may have or may not
have done. He, for one, was not going
Ito do what he thought would be to en-
courage millionaire sportsmen to come in
to this State while many good people OF
this state would be deprived Of the means
OF earning an honest living ~ sz
'."This bill Is along the line OF the Mann
}bllln5 said Mr. Sale. III you are going
to be swept away by sentimentality: IL
you are yEoing to arrange by legislation
what we shall cat and drink and clothe
ourselves with II you arc going to take
from tho good people OF the sea-coast
their only means Of support. then pass
I this bill and all others along this line.
am opposed to the act and to oil like
1t that takes from people the rights they
have enjoyed through all ages. We are
not here to represent any particular class,
but all classes, the poor as we'll as the
RICH" "a II b
Mr.. Keczell stated that the committee
had given this matter tho most careful
consideration, and all these matters talk
ed about here now had been gone over
and the committee had done that which
It thought was for the best interests OF
all the people Of tho State. }i55 y Il,
III the State is to declare that game is
private property, and allow a man to
invite Dick. Tom and Harry to come and
kill this game, then would you allow
these Dicks. Toms and Harrys to go upon
the lands OF others and kill the game!
found there r. a III $s5
e Mr.. Keczell fired this shot from his 49,.
inch gun with great force. The Rock
.ingham Senator contended that game IL
not private. but Is public property.
II Mr.. Anderson could not agree with the
views expressed by Mr.. Tyler. The obs
ject OF the bill. said he. was not to raise
revenue, but TO protect game. He was
In favor Of n reasonable law, but he
would not go to the extent OF requiring
children OF citizens OF this Commonwealth
who have gone Into. other States to re-
side to take out license to hunt when
they visit home.
rs this any greater hardship than
to tell me l shall not hunt upon my own
lands?" asked MIR. Garrett.
II did not know the Senator was a
replied Mr.. Anderson. Il
.''''I can't see why the license proposed
on non-residents is any more unjust than
to tell me ] shall not catch birds in ne Is. !,
answered Mr.. Garrett g
sst.I move that the Senator from Henry
be permitted to lasso the birds, said
Mr.. cIlwasne. and Mr.. Garrett and all
others enjoyed the humor conveyed by
the remark.
The Lyle amendment was voted down
and the Bryant amendment was, after
some slight changes, adopted as follows:
Provided, the nonresident children
OF resident owners Of land In this
State shall BIO allowed to hunt on such
lands as though they were residents
of this State
Mr., Wickham secured the adoption OF
the following:
No game warden shall have anyx
right under this act to 60 upon the
lands OF another person without the
consent OF such other person until and
unless such game warden shall. have
procured search warrant In con-
for1nty with the provision OF para
graph 5 OF section 2670 OF this chap
ter or a warrant for the arrest of
some person thereon.
3 Provided. however, that such game
warden may, without warrant; ar
rest any person who violates any OF
the provisions Of this act In the pres
ence OF such game warden. and should
any person violate any Of the pro-
visions OF this act In the presence OF
such game warden such game war
den may lawfully follow such person il
anywhere in the effort to Arrest
Mr.. Barksdale had an amendment
adopted extending the open season for
hooting robins to the first OF April.
Other amendments were adopted; the
ill was ordered to Its engrossment and
'rdered to be printed. ltitss 5
TDRN1s OF JUDGES,
Mr.. Byars offered the following Joint
* Il
Resolved by the Senate (the House OF
Delegates conouFring), That in order to
Lscertain the term Of Office for which the
Judges Of the Corporation Courts Of the
It1es OF the State are to be elected at
he first election Of Judges by the GEN
raj Assembly. under the Constitution,
Which went into effect at noon on the
9TH OF July, 1909; #
The seventeen cities shall BIO divided In
o four groups, the Judges in one OF which
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