The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-12
WALLACE SUBMITS
DATAFOR WILSON
Game Commissioner Pleased
With Recent Trip
PLAN TO AID. BIRDS
Thinks International Treaties Are
Necessary to Secure Proper Pro-
lection of Winged Nomads of
Western Hemisphere

Montgomery, Aprn 11.--(SpeciaD-
John II. Wallace. Jr.. state game and
fish commissioner. returned today from
washington. where he went to confer
With President Woodrow Wilson with
reference to securing an International
treaty for the protection of migratory
birds In addition to explaining to the
President the advantages of such pro-
ject for the protection of migratory
birds upon the western hemisphere, Mr.
Wallace also took up with the chief
executive the plan to convert large
tract of government land in North Ala
bama into a national game reservation
and park.
Mr.. Wallace declared that the Presi-
dent expressed himself as highly
pleased with the two propositions, stat
ing that he was in great sympathy
with the movement looking to = the
greater protection of migratory birds,
and also indicating his approval of
large federal game preserve and park
for Alabama.
Commissioner Wallace also called upon
Secretary of State Bryan in reference to
his two projects, and he declares that he
received strong encourag cement from that
source.
III his visit to the President and Secre-
tary of State, Mr.. Wallace was accom-
panied by Senators Bankhead and john
ston Fle declares that he had delight
full trip and expressed the belief that
Wilson is the greatest President since the
days of Andrew Jackson.
Commissioner Wallaces visit to the
President was chiefly for the purpose Of
laying before him his plan looking to in
ternational protection of migratory birds
At the request of the President, Mr. Wal
lace submitted to him a memorandum of
his plan, and enclosed it with a letter
which he wrote to the chief executive.
The following is the memorandum
which Mr.. Wallace submitted to Presi-
dent Wilson:
Memorandum-Subm at President
Wilson's personal request.
Subject: International Protection of
Migratory Birds.
Il. Most of the states have passed ef-
fective laws for the protection of birds
and game.
20. The last Congress passed the Nc
Lean bill, which provides for the fed
eral protection of migratory birds.
'3. Real protection cannot be afforded
our migratory water fowl and birds un-
less international agreements are consum-
mated, by treaties looking to their pro-
lection by all the nations owning terri
tory on the western Hemisphere in the
line of flight of the winged nomads that
do not remain in any ono country the
entire year.
"a A commission should be created
by Congress vested with the power to
effect treaties with all the nations of
the western hemisphere looking to tho
international protection of migratory
waterfowl and birds The members of
each commission should be game law
experts and number not less than three,
and should be the representative of
the three great grand divisions of the
nation, north, south and west.
80. The United States should take
the lead in proposing an international
programme under which the migratory
Wild life of the western hemisphere. viii,
be accorded the greatest possible pro-
lection.
Every possible safeguard should be
thrown around our great resource con-
sis ting of migratory birds, to the end that
they may be saved from certain depletion
and possible obliteration.
by the adoption of the plan herein out
lined all that American genius. patriotism
and craftsmanship can devise will be
brought into play to check the relentless
onslaught now being persistently waged
against the winged nomads of the West
edn hemisphere"