The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-02-19
REMODE[|NC THE
GAME DEP PARTMENT
BELIEVED THAT BILL TO ABOL-
lSH SAME WILL MEET DEFEAT
ON FINAL ROLL GALL.
(From The Oklahoman.)

day tuesday to the Hunter IayiOf Dui
to abolish the state fish and game
department and generally remodeling
the state fish and gan. avs, and
wound up by passing the %. IRE to
final roll call so loaded do ~ With
cumbersome or unpopular al O.
ments that t probably will be kl.a
on final roll call, and if it shoul
pass there, would certainly meet its
fate in the senate.
AS it finally was completed In
committee of the whole, the bill car
ries amendments for a closed season
on quail for the next two years, with
fully half the counties of the state,
especially those on the east side, spe-
officially exempted from this proW-
sion.
1t was this feature of the bill that
>. occasioned the longest wrGngling, al
though the question of prohibiting
fishing on Sunday occasioned a long
debate in the forenoon
Early in the day Representative
Farral secured adoption of an
amendment for a closed season
against quail shooting for three years
Some hours later, fearing that the
proposed amendment to exempt nu-
merous counties from the provision
might make the entire bill unconstl
tutional, since it would be including
special and general features, he man
aged to get the house to reconsider
the adoption of the CLOSED season"
amendment. Other members imme-
diately renewed the fight, and again
reconsidered to put in an amendmen.
by. Pruett, closing the season for two
years, which placed the bill back to
about where it had been four hours
before.
Counties Again Exempted.
Hill of Pittsburg then renewed his
amendment to exempt numerous coun-
ties, including most of those on the
east side, and this too was adopted.
The bill by this time was SO badly
snarled up, and so loaded with
amendments that Durant of Durant.
who had fought it strenuously in
the beginning, was pretty well sat-
isfied that 1T could never get by roll
call and moved it's adoption by the
committee o. the whole
Speaker Maxey, who had taken
hut little part in the debate to this
point, moved as substitute that the
lill be recommitted with instructions
that it be stripped of all its general
enforcement features anu rewritten
so that it would contain three pro-
visions: one that would abolish the
state fish and game department; the
second, to put the enforcement of the
law in the hands of the local authori
ties; the third, to provide for the col
lection OF the hunting licenses by
the county clerk. This, he said, rep
resented the chief demands of the
people, ard he was opposed to load
ing the bill with anything else so
late in the session. Other changes
could De presented in special bills.
he said.
His motion to recommit lost by 6
vote of 81 to SO and the bill went
to engrossment.
The bill was fought out with e.
Z. Glasco, chairman of the committee
On banks and banking, in the chair
as presiding officer over the COM
mittee of the whole.
Changes Proposed.
The bill would make some of the
following changes in existing laws.
The state fish and game depart
ment, the office of game warden and
all deputies and assistants, are
abolished.
quail for two years, with many east
side and some west side counties ex-
cmpted
The deer season would open No
vember / and run for thirty days.
Hunting with dogs continues to be
forbidden. The closed season on
antelope is continued for five years
longer
An effort of Bonds Of Rogers 10
prohibit the ancient profession of
trapping, which shows how far We
have gone since our grandfathers'
days. was defeated.
No Fishing on Sunday.
Fishing on Sunday henceforth