Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1919 — Migratory Bird Law Invalid Decision of Supreme Court [ARTICLE]

Migratory Bird Law Invalid Decision of Supreme Court

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