Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1916 — Sportsmen Resist Efforts To Have Game Law Changed. [ARTICLE]

Sportsmen Resist Efforts To Have Game Law Changed.

All efforts on the part of “commercial” hunters of the central west t< have the federal migratory bird law changed so as to permit the shooting in spring of wild ducks will be vigorously resisted by sportmen who believe that the law is essential to the preservation of wild fowl life in this country. The law is now before the United States supreme court awaiting a ruling as to its constitutionality, but pending a decision the supporters of the measure intend to see that the violators are prosecuted. Pot hunters and market hunters, ac cording to the law's defenders, are the only ones who seek the privilege of spring shooting, and it is said they are working in a quiet way to arouse sentiment in favor of their contentions among the lawmakers at Washington. Their chief contention is that the law is too sweeping—that it favors some districts while o|>erating against others. It is deemed that the law is necessary to protect the fowl during their hatching and migratory seasons and to preserve the game.