The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-29

Made Hail HIGH SulA1IcEs
ATLANTA-''I am going to get
summer duck, have it stuffed and
keep it in my room as memento OF
this session of the legislature" re-
marked Representative H. N. Rainey,
Ir OF Jackson, chairman of the
house committee on game and fish.
81 have heard more about summer
5rck this session than in the whole
~ the rest of my lifetime put to-
oe+her. In fact, / have always had
only a vague idea that there was such
a bird in existence. am fully i'm
messed with the fact that the sum-
7ner duck is a reality, though would
NOT know one if it should fly into the
door Of the committee room"
Thus Chairman Rainey spoke fol-
lowing an intensely interesting hear
ing before his committee over the
question as to the time when sum-
-ner ducks should be shot. Some
bodv told Mr.. Rainey the answer was
cat any summer resort" and he said
that was about as good as any so far
os his knowledge Of summer ducks
was concerned.
The belligerents at this hearing
were Ward Allen, the mighty nimrod
of Chatham, on the one side and Rep
rasentative Minter Wimberly of Bib
an the other. Shelby Myrick OF
chatham had introduced a bill to
hermit the shooting Of summer duck
-beqinning July Is. The present time
for beginning the work is Decem-
Der list.
But" it seems to have been ap-
nropriately asked, why walt until
winter time to kill a summer duck"
WHY indeed. That same why is what
evoked Representative Myrick's bill
Taking this as q text Mr.. Allen, who
knows how to hit them on the wing
or anywhere else, put up a strong
sniel for the summer killing OF sum-
mer duck.
Mr.. Allen and others who spoke
for +he Myrick bill called attention
70 the fact that summer duck begin
n migrate into the interior in the
late fall and winter, and if they can
not be killed in the summer time
those on the coast won't get a chance
at them.
That's just it," interpolated Mr.
Wimberly. 'They want to kill all
these summer duck down on the
coast and not let them come our way,
We want them to migrate. There
are summer duck up in Bibb county
now. but there won't be any of them
there if they shoot them down on the
coast before the migration begins"
Thus the contest waged hotly'
fiercely until the committee finally
went into executive session and de-
cided that a summer duck is a sum-
mer bird and ought to be killed IN
the summer time. But as a compro-
mise and in order to prevent, If pos
sible, the complete slaughter before
migration begins the date in the Dill
was set up from July Is to August
Is. with which amendment the bill
was given a favorable report.
Another Hot dispute.
d. A. ,,,,,,,,o,, dunk diSnute is
not the only row Chairman Rainey S
committee has on its hands. There
is another and a more vigorous and
deep-seated dispute with which II
has to wrestle-a dispute that IS
sectional in it's nature and in when
North Georgia is arrayed against
South Georgia. So determined are
the antagonists that North Georgia
on the one hand declares the Dill
shall not pass, and if it does it shall
be even less effective than the proh1-
bition law; while South Georgia says
it must go through and be vigorously
upheld by the game warden.
Strangely enough there is differ
ence of only one-half an inch between
the opposing parties, but that dftfer-
ence is enough to cause all sorts OF
bitter contest.
The bill in question proposes to
increase the size of the mesh of the
standard seine for use in catching
fish in Georgia waters. The present
law says no seine shall be USED
whose mesh is smaller than 70
inches Naturally the law creates
the standard seine, and that's what
all the fishermen use.
Now comes a South Georgian with
a peremptory bill in which he says
in future no seine shall be used with
a smaller mesh than two inches,
difference of just one-half an inch.
The object of the larger mesh is, OF
course to give the little fish, or IN
other words, the small fry a chance
to escape. South Georgians are COM
planning of the present seine on the
ground that it is depicting their
streams of small fish, and say that
unless they can get larger seine
their fish will soon be killed.
But we don't have big fish in the
North Georgia streams" says the
North Georgian, "and if they put that
kind Of a law on us we'll hardly get