The Kusko times., 1926-08-21

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 MT. Caraway. MT. President, may 1 interrupt the Senator from Mary ,Fbhd?
 MT. Bruce. Certainly
 MT. Carawayl ti1 do not want the Senator quite to-. sanction the state ment of the Senator from Utah (Mr. King), because I do not think it is quite accurate. This bill does pro- pose to protect migratory. birds dur , ing the helpless period. ] The sanctu- ary law that we now have merely, pre- vents the shooting of them in certain places at. certain times; but this bill goes further and proposes to acquire, either by purchase or by lease, places where the birds may propagate. It is propagation measure, and not quite what the Senator from Utah indicat- ed, merely a place for people to hunt Its primary object is to furnish the birds sanctuaries- where they may propagate and increase.
 MT. Bruce. That is what 1 mean by saying that the object of this bill is twofold, and, first of all, to establish sanctuaries and propagation centers for bird life. That is the thought of the Senator from Arkansas, and I think that it is entirely sanctioned by the provisions of the bill. Then the bill proposes to establish shooting grounds where licensed members of the public may shoot, under proper i regulations looking to the conserva- tion of the game on~them.
 1 MT. Caraway. Does not the Sen ator think that that is merely a sec i ondary purpose and effect of the bill :? The. bill is not intended primarily to establish. place where one may hunt, but it is primarily tooestaklish a place where wild life ~may propagate and | then. spread out all over the country. ! sMr.. Bruce. J, thinlo so.. In other words, to establishnwhat might :, be called fhird"seedaplets. ,
 "A Mr.aGaraway. That isosabSoIutely all it. is. No.eone believes that, the hunting grounds themselves will be of such tarea and be so numerous that they will4furnish spertsmen a place in which to 20 to fndf birds and shoot. Itln1erely intends to protest wild life and let itcbeceme more numerous, and then people s>1nag hunt it wherever they find it.
 MT. Bruca. s1Isuppose one object IS to shodtthat if shooting allowed over an sareaa be properly regulated and safeguarded, it will not work any un- due destruction of bird life.
 Another illustration. Take the part ridge or quail. It was an extremely abundant bird in Southern Virginia and Maryland in my early life. 1 my self, though by no means crack shot, have shot as many as 40 cartridges on my fathers plantation in Southern Virginia in the course of day.
 I know it does not do for any man to speak too freely of his prowess.as as a hunter. recall story that is told of Lord Norbury, of Ireland; as l re- member, someone once said to him, "J brought down 25 hares this morning ' and received the reply. "Begad, sin you must have fired at a wig" So am not going to wander off into a dangerous field; but not only have myself when youth hagged in South ern Virginia in the course of the day as many as 40 cartridges; but on one occasion my brother, on the same shooting grounds, bagged as many as 65; and yet today so diminished ir numbers in this part of the country is the partridge that they are not al lowed to be sold in the morkets cd Washington at all. Some years ago as we all know, cartridges were .s very common article of food on tht breakfast table, and my father usec . to laugh to scorn the old saying that it was impossible for any man toseat partridge every day for montt without becoming nauseated, because for 25 or 30 years he had doneethai very thing during the partridge sea son. Now, hoiwever, If we want semt cartridges for dinner party ol