Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-02-13
PLAN TOSTEAL THUNDER
Of COMMITTEE FAILS
SpOrtsmen Incorporate DeCis-
ion Of Committee In Bill
Now In Senate

A very shrewdly conceived and
cunningly worked out plot TO "steal
the thunder" of the joint game com
mittee of the Legislature and to rob it
of whatever glory might be due as the
result of compromise legislation look
ing to the solution of vexatious ques-
tion Of reorganization and regulation
of the state fish and game commission,
was nipped in the bud by the game
committee when its compromise bill, as
forecasted in the journal of Tuesday,
was introduced in the house this morn
ing and will be rushed through to an
early enactment in order to frustrate
the "credit stealing" designs Of the
authors of similar bill introduced in
the senate yesterday afternoon by
Senator Hollis, by request embodying
the identical provisions Of the game
committee bill,
The game committee bill represents
the draft OF compromise between the
four bills in the hands of the commit
tee, those by Schuebel, Ritner, Davey
and Vawter, and is unanimously sup
ported by the committees of both
houses There has been powerful lob
by in attendance upon the session since
the early stages in the interests of the
present administration Of the affairs
of the game and game fish department,
and when they secured the "dope" up
on the committee bill some of the
ardent supporters of the game warden
got busy and drafted a bill carrying
all of the features of the game commit
tee bill and rushed it into the senate
yesterday afternoon in the hopes of
robbing the committee of whatever
credit was due and taking it upon the
present game warden.
The senate BILL it is understood, was
drafted by former Senator l.. e. Bean
of Lane county, who has been working
hard in the interests of the present adj
ministration and it was given to Sen
ator Hollis to introduce without ex-
planning to the senator the ultelior de-
signs Of the perpetrators Of the trick
and he is said to- be absolutely inno
cent of partnership to the conspiracy
However the game committee bill was
read the first time in the house this
morning and IL will be rushed through
to third reading by a suspension Of tn,
rules and when the conspiracy bill
comes up for consideration in the sen
ate it will be throttled, or, if 1t sue
ceeds in getting through the uppel
branch of the assembly, it will receive
its everlasting "quietus" in the house
The game committee bill provides foi
a commission of five members of which
the governor shall be chairman; two
Of the members are to be appointed
from Eastern and two from Westeri
Oregon. The commission also elects {
master fish warden and state gam'
warden whose salaries shall not ex
ceed $2,4O0 per year, and shall have
complete control over the administra
ton Of the funds derived from licenses
fees, etc, and the right, to employ an'
discharge any employe, warden, etc
at any time for cause or good of th'
service. All of the responsibility rest
in the governor The county treasure
is authorized to retain 5 per cent o
the licenses fees, fines, ETC., paid int
the office for the benefit Of the coun
4 ty. The fish and game fund is to b
deposited into the general fund Of tn
treasury but to remain intact for dc
fraying the expenses Of administrator
of The commission and for the protec
ton and propagation Of fish, game AM
game fish throughout the state