Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-03-01
Do Not Like Provisions of
Proposed New Game
Laws

who also have a kick or two against
the measure in question
Nov that H. B, No 100. by fish and
game committee, has passed the house
without the members of that body
having had chance to discuss it
acted more intelligently upon a bill Of
great Importance it is now up to the
senate to either amend the bill or kill
it. Three is no question but what if
the members of the house had had a
more thorough understanding of the
bill it would have been amended there
so that it would conform more nearly
to the needs and requirements of the
state.
Ignored Recommendation
at is evident that the fish and
game committee purposely ignored
many valuable suggestions as offered
by a majority of the sportsmen of the
state, as we'll as very important re-
concentrations as made by the fish
and game warden in his biennial re-
port for 1866. On page IS of that
report he says: would recommend
that the closed season for all upland
birds, with the exception of the
quail be uniform. In the enforcement
of the law we find much difficulty be-
cause of different times being fixed for
the opening of the shooting season for
the several kinds of birds
III. B. No. 100 will in no relieve
these difficulties as pointed out by
the department. If laws are so framed
as to make them difficult to enforce it
must of necessity entail much unnec-
essary expense to enforce them.
Want Fully as Good Law.
1.-THE sportsmen of Idaho do not
paying the warden and his deputies
good salaries because without just and
reasonable compensation we cannot
hope for efficiensy. But we do object
to the passage of any bill that will not
give the state as good laws as we
already have. If any new law that
may be enacted by this session of the
legislature does not eliminate any of
the bad or undesirable features of our
present game laws it naturally follows
then that such laws would be more ex-
pensive to administer and enforce and
would fail to produce the good results
so much needed and desired by the
sportsmen of the state,
with the provision for an increased
appropriation for higher salaries as
provided for in n. B. No. 100 is seems
quite unnecessary to pay a 90 per cent
commission on the sales of licenses,
especially when 96k per cent of the
income to this department from the
sale of licenses is from the 81 licenses.
What Fee System Means.
BASED on the sale of licenses dur
ing the past year as shown by fish and
game warden's report, it means he
paying of commission of S3,542.4O on
the sale of 81 licenses alone, and, un-
der the loose woring of the provisions
of this bin, there is nothing to prevent
two or three deputies of this depart
ment from travelling over the state
drawing good salaries, and pushing
the sale of licenses, so as to get this
large commission. 1t would amount
to pretty good thing in addition to a
good salary. The law should provide
that if the state warden or any deputy
drawing a salary shall sell any
licenses, the entire fee be paid into the
the department.
Why Not Recognize Sportsmen7
while there are many sportsmen
associations in the state, yet the ward
en- nor any OF the deputies are mem
bers of any of our associations. Why
not the sportsnen receive some recog-
milton? They contribute more toward
the maintenance of this. department
than any other class OF citizens.
"After careful consideration Of H.
B. No. $50 we fail to find but one
really desirable proposition. and that
is the section legalizing the sale and
shipping Of eastern brook or red
specified trout propogated and grown
in legal private ponds, and we under
stand that there win be a bill intro
duced on this meritorious subject.
Therefore. II H. B. No. 100 cannot be
amended 50 as to make IT a more ra-
tional measure. It viii be decidedly
to the interests Of the state to have It
killed. as the present law win be much
better.
San Francisco. Cal.-Through arbi-