The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
PLAN TO HAVE STATE
SELL SEIZED GAME
Legislature to Be Asked to
Give Plain Citizen Chance
to Feast


If the allegation commonly made to
the effect that game condemned in
Minnesota is shipped to Chicago and
there placed on the market is true why
should Minnesotans, by all the rights
and precedents, not have the first
chance to buy that game?
This question, which a great many
people have often asked themselves,
has been the subject of pertinent
discussion among some of the leading
sportsmen in the state with the result
that the present legislature is soon to
be asked to pass bill providing that
all game condemned be sold to Mime
sofa retail store dealers at reasonable
prices, to be resold by them to Mime
sofa people at small advance in price.
The money SO derived is to go towards
the support of the state fish and game
commission.
A great many prominent people have
interested themselves in the matter,
among them being w. S. Timberly, C.
r. Palmer, John w. Taylor, Morton
Barrows, Stan Donnelly and J. I. Far
ley. Hundreds of men from different
parts of the state have written to the
representatives and senators from
their districts asking the measures
support when it comes before the leg
islature. 1t will be presented at an
early day, for the bill is now being
drafted and will be acted upon at once
by representative Wohlhuter's COM
n1ttee and introduced into the house,
by [. c. Fulton and into the senate by
Hller Horton At the present time it
looks as though there would be little
or no opposition to its passage.
No Chance With Old Law
AS the law relative to condemned
game now reads the executive agent of
the fish and game commission is di-
rected to turn all game seized over to
some one of the charitable institutions
of the state or to one of the state hos
pitals or schools, and a great many St.
Paul people telegraph to Chicago for
quail and partridges, during the closed
season, and have the game shipped to
them, paying very fancy prices for the
same, and likewise some very discour-
aging express rates.
1t is said that in case the bill is
passed and becomes effective the extra
revenue which would Immediately
begin to pour into the Golfers of
the fish and game commission would
almost support the commission in it's
work. Only a few days ago the COM
mission seized 1000 pheasants. The
bunch would be cheap at $500.
tilCe Uiil LslflCty IlOl DC III Liz
least discriminating, it will specifically
state that game confiscated by the
commission must be sold to some re-
tail store in the immediate vicinity Of
the place where it is taken, If mar
ket can be found there for it; if no
market is Immediately available, it is
to be. sold at the nearest market wish
ing it, providing that market is in the
state.
High Prices Are Barred
The bill further provides that the
game must be sold at fair price and
| that every bird or fish so sold must be
tagged by the commission, the tag to
remain on the game until it is resold
at a reasonable profit. The wording
of the bill will not tolerate exorbitant
| prices.
The purpose of this bill will not in
any sense be to open the markets OF
the state for the promiscuous dealing
In game, fowls and fish, however. Its
! promoters do not desire that. 1t mere
| ly contemplateS the sale of condemned
| game held by the state.
One of the most ardent supporters
| Of the bill has received letter from
/ Uri L. Lamprey president of the state
game and fish commission, in which
Mr.. Lamprey states that the measure
has his hearty approval and that he
regrets the fact that his illness will
| prevent his giving 1t the active sup
port he would like to.