SHIPMENT OF WILD GAME.
On motion by Mr. POINDEXTER, the bill [H. R. 19] to repeal Section 12 of the act for the protection of wild game, was read the first and second time by title only, under a dispensation of the constitutional restriction.
Mr. LOCKRIDGE stated that men came into the northern part of the State to kill game for the purpose of making money in that way. The law as it now stands cuts off a class of men referred to when the bill for the protection of fish was under consideration, who use explosive substances for the purpose of killing fish in lakes and rivers.
Mr. BELL would not make any factious opposition to a fair game law, but this provision seems to be in the interest of pot hunters. We ought not only to preserve our game for the sake of having game, but for the sake of sportsmen also.
Mr. WOOD objected to the clause in the present law, which prohibits a sportsman of another State from taking home with him a brace of ducks or geese or half a dozen quails.
The bill was rejected--yeas, 15; nays, 19.
