Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1919 — BIRD LAW RULED OUT. [ARTICLE]

BIRD LAW RULED OUT.

The federal migratory bird law of 1913, under which the government for the first time exerted authority and /prescribed “closed seasons” for wild birds which habitually migrate from state to state with the varying seasons, has, in effect, been declared invalid by the Supreme Court of the United States, which dismissed on the government’s motion an appeal from a decision of the Arkansas federal district court holding the statute unconstitutional