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and the violation of either would con- stitute st crime subject to indictment and trial Ia a Federal court, not the State court, conRort with the Sen ator's idea of the right of every citi- zen to be tried by jury of the vic mage of the alleged crime. Is not the Senator shocked and somewhat re- sentful at the thought that a boy who wants to shoot has to get a Federal license to shoot in State, and if he violaes some little rule or regulations, perhaps of which he has never heard because it has been promulgated here in Washington-and thousands are promulgated here by these bureau crats-he is. indicted by a grand jury and is. haled to the Federal court hun dreds of miles away, and then tried by jury of twelve men in Federal court? Does the Senator quite relish the superimpOsition upon the indiVid- ual citizen of little more autocracY, and the Sublection of the people to penal provisions which may number hundreds of thousands, for the viola tion of which they are to. be dragged hundreds of miles away in many of the States to Federal courts, indicted by Federal grand juries, and tried by Federal juries?
 Mr. Shipstead No; | would not relish that at all.
 MT. King. That is the obnoxious thing to me in this bill. l despise bureaucracy. I hate this intereference by petty Federal officials with the rights of individuals, and it is ob- noxious to me to thik of citizens being dragged hundreds of miles away from home, to be indicted by a Federal grand jury, and tried by Federal jury, for the violation of some little, petty rule or regulation promulgated by some bureaucrat here in Washing ton. It is as repugnant to me as it was to Americans a hundred years and more ago to be dragged across the ocean to be tried by English juries, and against which, odious prac- tices protest was made by the Declar- ation of Independence.
 MT. Norbeck. Mr. President, we have had a great deal of experience under the present migratory bird law. When that was pending it was said that boys would be indicted by grand juries and hauled hundreds of miles away from home, and so forth, under that law We have had many years of experience and the results are not what was predicted. The results were as much out of line with the predic- ton as they will be in this case.
 MT. King. May I say to the Sen ator that if lam compelled to speak on this bill I will call his attention, from the vast amount, of data l have here, to the boasting of Federal off cials as to the numberof prosecutions. May I say that if this bill becomes a law there will be more rules and reg ulations and there will be more ar rests and convictions, assuming that these new regulations will be violated. The provision for Federal licenses alone will bring several million citi- zens within the penal provisions of Federal law and make a potential criminal of every, man who uses a gun without having taken out a Federal license.
 Citizens may be forbidden to shoot migratory birds out of season without requiring them to take out a Federal shooters license If you take the licensing feature out of this bill, the sponsors of the measure will have no further interest init. They will aban- don the bill They have no interest in the protection of game for the pur- pose of conservation.
 MT. Norbeck.. Under one of the provisions of this bill additional au- thority, would be.conferred upon Unit ed States commissioners.
 Mir. King. Idouht the constitution ality-
 MT. Norheck. Something was said on the floor, yesterday against the con stitutionality of the whole proceeding, bu the Supreme court of the United
 MT. King. Nos I beg the Senator's States has passed on that question: