DEER PROTECTION.
Mr. Skinner's bill [H. R. 167] to amend Section 1 of an act for the protection of wild game, fixing the time, etc., prescribing the penalties, was read the third time.
Mr. SKINNER--This is a bill that explains itself. The only change it makes in the old law is, it makes it a crime to kill deer at any season of the year. In the Northern part of the State there is but one thing that will prevent the destruction of this animal, and that is the passage of a law of this kind. The only excuse hunters themselves give for killing deer, is that the law is such that if they do not kill them, some one else will. It is estimated that there are only about fifty or sixty deer in the region of the Kankakee River. I hope the members of this House will pass the bill.
Mr. WESTFALL--Does this law affect domestic animals as well as others? There is a man in our County who has a deer fawn. Does this bill prevent him from killing his deer?
Mr. SKINNER--This bill only applies to wild game.
The bill passed--yeas, 65; nays, 9.
