The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-07-21
COMMITTEE PREPARING REPORT
TO SUBMIT TO HOUSE AT
EARLY DATE.
Number of Changes Which are Fav.
ored by the Sportsmen of the State
Will Be Recommended for Passage
by the Committee.

Prospects are Frightening up just
now for rell good Georgia game
law.
The committee on game and fish IN
the house was in session TUESDAY at
ernoon for more than two hours and
will report a good game law back to
the house. Many bills came before The
committee, some good, some other.
wise, so subcommittee was appoinr-
ed to draft one general bill covering
the best features in those discussed
before the committee.
Most of the members of the commit
tee were present and number Of
them entered into discussion CT tho
measures. In selecting the game ard
fish committee, Speaker Holder an.
pointed strong delegation Th ~ ave
heart and soul for game protection
and this session is going to see some
real results from their efforts.
The general bill which will be draft.
ed VIII contain the following provis.
ions: Prohibiting the sale of game;
limiting the bag per day; prohibiting
the shipping of game; charging a non
resident a license to hunt: charging
residents nominal license provid.
ing for decent compensation to game
Wardens and deputy wardens so that
the game laws in Georgia will be en-.
forced
The bill does not contain the clause
over which so much cain was raised
last session, requiring written permis.
sion of the landowner to hunt on his
premises, and it does not contain any
regulation over migratory birds as the
Dill of last session did
Sportsmen Were Present.
Many appeared before the commit
tee but most of them were sportsmen.
Ihey came with their hearts on the
subject and told the committee of the
obstruction of game throughout the
state. Yes, there was opposition TO
the DILL too, that was represented nv
ward Allen, of Savannah, to whose
work last session Is attribute the do.
leat or the Davis bill. Aliens opposi.
'aon, before the committee Tuesday.
however, had little effect; in fact. TO
DOH down his statement one will find
that he made no fight on the bill but
simply told the committee what no
knew about hunting.
3W*J. Campbell, former city clerk Of
Atlanta, was present and spoke for
i've minutes urging the committee to
put a pan on the pump gun, to shorten
the season on quail, prohibit the shin.
ping OF game, prohibit the sale and
make pot hunting a crime. Mr.. Camp.
bell also urged that a provision be
put in whereby some of the nest
breaking dogs could be eliminated
). G. Haskell Of Savannah, one of
the finest sportsmen of the present
age, who has been urging game law
Tor Georgia for years, was present He
urged that the committee give Geor.
gia a strong law, one that could be-
enforced and provide compensation 50
that 1t would be enforced. Prohibit
the sale and shipping of game. limit
the Dag, shorten the season and charge
license to hunt, were the prime fac
tors of his arguments. When he saw
ward Allen, he told the committee
In short who Mr.. Allen was. He said
mat Allen was in the habit of shoot
ing summer ducks before they were
grown and urged that the season be
shortened.
IL. Lee Worsham, state entomoIogist
and president of the Southern Con.
servation congress, gave comprehen-
sive talk on the value of the game
plrd to the farmer in destroying IN
sects. He mentioned the coming of
the boil weevil to Georgia and stated
that every insectiyorous bird would
De needed in the fight Quail, he
said, came third in list of fifty Geor.
gia birds which were enemies to the
boil weevil.