The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-24
THREE GAME
Bills PENDING
Dissatisfaction as to Pres
ent Laws Seen With no
Accord as to New Ones
The TimCs-Ncws Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel

RALEIGH, March 2l.--While
there has been some dissatisfac-
ton with game law administra.
ton in North Carolina, game leg
islation is one thing that the pres
ent general assembly has been
unable to get together on, with
the result that there are three
widely different game law bills
now pending. The most sweeping
of all The game law bills, intro
duced earlier in the session by
Senator Ingram, was killed in the
senate when that body was cor
WINGED that, by the reduction OF
license fees and other provisions,
it would virtually destroy game
conservation in the state.
The bills now pending, while
not so sweeping and so drastic "a
the original Ingram bill, would
nevertheless hamper game preser-
walton in North Carolina, accord
inc to some leading sportsmcn.
One of these new bills IS being
sponsored by Senator Ingram and
severa! others. it would transfer
the office of game warden to the
director Of the department Of
consCl walton and development,
and would abolish county resi-
dent game licenses in Is counties,
principally in the eastern part of
the state. Most of the counties
affected are large hunting areas,
and doing away with county resi-
dent licenses would put a serious
gap in the revenue spent for the
purse of game law administration
and preservation Of wild life.
The Ingram bill is now before
committee, as is the house bill IN
troduced by Rep. Makepcacc. The
latter has once been reported IA
vorably, but was re-refcrrcd TO
the house committee on game.
The Makepeace bill is regarded as.
the most drastic Of the three bills
now pending. 1t combines the Of
fees Of the state game warden
and the commissioners Of inland
fisheries, and allots a portion Of
the fees, now collected by the,
state, to, the counties Tor prcda-
tory animal control.
The bill also divides the State
into three zoncS--EaSlcrn Central
and Western-for the regulation
of open seasons. It's most danger
Gus feature is that it cuts the
revenue derived for game pur-
poses by greatly reducing the
costs of the various kinds Of L.
censes. This. it is claimed by some
of the states leading Sportsmcn,
would virtually wreck game pres
ervation and control in the state.
The Makepcacc bill reduces
county licenses from $l.25 to 6Oc;
state licenses from 1928 to 500
and nonresident licenses from
S15.25 to 5000. 1t also provides
for the issuance Of tw0-day
hunting license to non-rcsidcntS
for So.
The bill introduced by Senator
Land of IredelI, which is now Ola
the senate calendar with favor
able report, while it does not Sc
riously alter the present schedule
of license fees, would virtually
abolish these by permitting any
one TO hunt on any land without
a license if he has the owners
permission.
The Land bill abolishes the of
flee of state game warden and
turns the enforcement of the
game laws of the state over 20
the sheriffs in the various cOur-
ties. While this bill would make
it cheaper for North 'Carofnians
to hunt, and effect small econo-
my by abolishing the cost of the
game warden's office, opponents
of the measure contend that it
would tend to wreck in a year or
so many years work in game con-
servation and cut off a sizeable
lump of revenue that now goes
to the state. be-