Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1915 — Holds Migratory Bird Law To Be Unconstitutional. [ARTICLE]

Holds Migratory Bird Law To Be Unconstitutional.

Hunters the nation over are taking a great amount of interest in the decision of Judge John C. Pollock, of the United States district court of Topeka, Kans., which declares unconstitutional the law making it a misdemeanor to kill migratory birds. Judge Pollock holds that the game laws are entirely a matter of state rights and that the congress has no authority under the constitution to establish any regulations for the protection of game. The decision was in the case of Georgp L. McCullagh, a wealthy banker of Galena, Kas., and two companions arrested on the complaint of the U. S. district attorney for shooting ducks out of season. The defendants filed a demurrer to the charge, attacking the law’s constitutionality and Judge Pollock decided in their favor. -