The Kusko times., 1926-08-14

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 M1. Dilis MT. President, I shall con- cfade in, jnss a moment. l do not want to take, luther time, but diG' want to register nay opposition to per hitting a bill to eo1ee up for consid- eration at this time whieh, in my Judgment, will prove to be one of the most objectionable laws in operation if Congress shall pass it.
 want also to make clear that I ann most, heartily ia favor of game pro- lection. | am heartily in favor of bird reserves and bird sanctuaries for these migratory birds, and ! do not intend that my opposition .o the set ting up of d system of Fedora! game wardens shall be translated into oppo- sition. to- the preservation of game. But. we all know that the preservation of game is to large extent now, and should continue to be, State matter. We all know, that if this were a bill making provision for the appointment of an entire system of Federal game wardens separate and apart from this bird sanctuary proposition. you could not get enough votes here to even have 1t considered. But because it has tied into it the bird sanctuary pro- vision, these other provisions are ac- cepted as being a necessary part of it. and general language is included that will inevitably lead to the setting up of just such a, system of Federal game wardens as we have of other kinds of, inspectors going out from Washington.
 MT. Bruce. MT. President, l desire to say just word or two in regard to this proposition. I hope sincerely that the pending bill will be taken up for consideration, and that it will be ultimately passed
 |. It so happens that throughout my entire life 1 have been interested in shooting. Indeed, can truly say that it has been my chief outdoor pastime. The first book that ever appealed powerfully to my imagination was ,Auduhon's Birds of America, and am so fortunate as to be the possessor of copy of that book today, and to be able to enjoy the pleasure of turning to its pages at times and refreshing the feelings that it awakened in me when | was but a boy
 Ifexperience has demonstrated any thing. 1t is that State authority is in adequate to the protection of migra- tory bird life. Nor do I think that it can he successfully questioned that protection of migratory-bird life is not a matter of State concern merely, but of national concern smuch as interstate commerce ithsef. What is less confined in it's movements by State limits than a migratory bird which passes over vast spaces in few hours2
 Among the worst tragedies that been brought to my observation dur ing my existence is the all but com- plete destruction of forms of bird life with which I was familiar when was i a youth. We all know the history of l the passenger pigeon. am old l enough to remember the time when 1t was one of the most abundant birds in the United States, and when one of the most common sights along wood Hand roads in Southern Virginia was great ffocks of these birds flying ! swiftly over the tops of the trees. The
 destruction of the wild pigeon is
 doubtless by no means entirely due to
 human agencies, but, be this as 1t
 may, there is apparently no such bird to be, found anywhere in the whole j world at this time. The wild pigeons
 which formerly darkened the very | skies with their numbers and broke
 down the very branches of the trees in the forests with theIh weight are
 today as extinct as the great auk or
 the dodo. Every now and then we hear some: numor that pair of them
 have been seen in some portion of the
 United States or somewhere in the re-
 cesses of the Canadian wilderness; but
 so far as know for years' there, has HH