The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1912-04-18

anu tTdIsIull over the WiTes ne or
orator did the translating and trans
hitting and then naturally, knowing
the probable future value OF the ma
terlal, did not destroy the originals,
but put them in a safe place where
no unauthorized person could see
them, and kept possession OF them
until long after the war.
From time to time it is said that
this operator disposed OF some OF the
original Grant manuscripts to William
Blake, who was a well-known drug
eist of Utica and who is now dead,
his heirs presumably having the
Grant papers. Among these docU-
ments 1t is said is Grants despatch
congratulating Sherman on the cap
ture OF Savannah and on the end OF
his march to the sea. Nearly all
the dispatches to Sheridan in the
kShenandoah Valley are there and al
SO the despatch to Abraham Lincoln
telling him that General Weitzei had
entered Richmond, and that the army
was following.
Congress Is likely to pass bill
which will enable the government to
send the National Guard regiments OF
the states out OF the country il their
services there should be necessary as
an auxiliary to the army. The regu-
lar army officers want the law to read
so that the National Guard shall be-
come a part of the regular force to
be officered by regulars, but the Ma
tional Guardsmen are opposed to this,
and If the bill is passed it probably
will provide that the state troops
shall preserve their identity and go
out with their own officers. The Mex
lean situation has been instrumental
In securing immediate attention for
bill being included.
Seek to Save Wild Fowl.
Representative Anthony of Kansas,
representing the west, and Represent
alive Weeks Of Massachusetts, repre-
senting the east, have introduced
into congress two bills TO save
the wild fowl of the United
States, which under the onslaught
of the gunners are likely before long
to be exterminated Years ago it was
thought that the wild ducks the geese,
the brant, the snipe, the quail and the
other game birds were so plentiful in
the United States that the supply
never would be exhausted, but today
ii is q different tale and the fear of
the sportsmen and bird lovers is that
posterity will know Of many of the
game birds Of America only by tradi-
ton.
1t must be remembered that the
United States has control in the i'll
dividual states only In certain mat
ters, largely matters which affect in
terstate commerce. The Weeks and
Anthony bills both are based on the
right Of Uncle Sam to regulate the
commerce of the United States. Mi
gratory birds fly from one state to
another. Hence by what is perhaps
seeming stretch of the constitution
some of the legislators think that they
have the right to bring the birds un-
der federal control.
Need Of Protection Not Denied.
No Democrat or Republican has
been found i'll congress 10 deny that
the migratory birds need protection.
They start on their nOrthward journey
in the spring just prior 10 the mating
season, many of them in fact mating
on the way, and all along the line OF
fight in, on and over upland, marsh
and forest, they are made targets or
doyble-barrel and repeating shotguns.
For years sportsmen of the proper
spirit and the bird protective organi-
cations have tried TO induce the leg
islatures Of the different states to
pass laws prohibiting spring shooting.
If law of this kind had been passed
by every state ten years ago and en-
, forced. Uncle Sam would not feel to-
| warden for the country. Spring shoot
ing is recognized by everybody who
knows anything about bird life as an
evil. Several states have forbidden
| the killing of migratory birds during
| the time of the northern fight, but
other states have refused to stop the
spring slaughter, the refusal being due
| III lHOSJ tdStS W tic piouShl
| TO bear on the Legislators by the APP
peals of hunters. Some real sports
men have held that with the spring
shooting cut out there would be no
shooting at all in their sections of the
country.
Why the Bills Are Opposed.
There is considerable opposition in
congress to the passage Of either bill
to give the federal authorities power
to project the game. The opposition
springs from the belief of some of the
members that either law proposed
would constitute an Invasion of state
rights" The necessity of the law
is admitted, but its constitutionality is
doubted. 1t is held generally, how
ever, that unless Uncle Sam does act
and the states rights bubble is
dropped, there will in decade be
| few birds to protect.
Representative Anthony has said
that if congress thinks that the bill
of Mr.. Weeks is better than his bill,
| he hopes that il will be accepted and
passed. The Kansas mans bill fixes
| a closed season for game in all PARTS