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Secretary Rice addressed tlum hy invitation. He was greeted warmly, and 

 closed amid enthusiasm, all the iiK-mbers present coming up and pledging 

 support. The following day, committees from House and Senate, meeting 

 in conference, gave unanimous report in favor of all of the bills offered. This 

 appeared to settle the matter, but it did not, for, after being rejected in the 

 Senate and then passed on reconsideration by a vote of three to one, the bill 

 finally died in the House, there being five majority against it. 



All power of enforcing law having been taken away from the Auduljon 

 Society by the act creating a Chief Game Warden, there ensued confusion. 

 Upon consultation, it was determined to carry the fight before the people, 

 a continuance of the campaign of the previous year. 



Secretary Rice has been continuously on the road, lecturing on birds and 

 explaining the resident hunters' license. In ninety days, he talked to one 

 hundred and three audiences, taking a vote by calling for a display of hands, 

 each time, and getting every vote at every meeting in favor of the license. 



During the mid-summer months, the Secretary was appointed a lecturer 

 on the staff of Clemson Agricultural College, to assist in farmers' institute 

 work and in this way thousands of farmers were seen and talked to, always 

 with the same result. A series of articles has been appearing throughout the 

 year in daily and weekly papers, descriptive of birds, their habits and 

 uses. 



Most of the opponents of the game-bird laws were left at home at the last 

 election, and in both houses of the coming Legislature there will be a large 

 majority favoring bird protection and the passage of the hunters' license bill. 

 Of the six candidates for governor only one opposed the hunters' license, 

 and he failed to carry his own county. Both Governor-elect Blease and Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor Smith are outspoken advocates of bird protection. 



The Society feels encouraged at the prospect, although aware that vigi- 

 lance and alertness are always necessary to make sure that the fruits of 

 victory are not lost. Every energy will be concentrated on the resident 

 hunters' license, this time. 



Both the Snowy Egret rookery on James Island and the rookery of American 

 Egrets on Santee were visited by plume hunters during the summer, and many 

 birds killed. The criminals were not apprehended. Owing to the condition 

 brought about by the action of the General Assembly, there have not been 

 so many convictions as there were last year. But there have been a number, 

 and the people are obeying the laws better than ever before. — James Henry 

 Rice, Jr., Secretary. 



Tennessee. — The East Tennessee Audubon Society was organized at 

 Knoxville, Tennessee, on September 2, 1910. The following officers were 

 elected: H. Tullsen, President; Judge H. Y. Hughes, First Vice-President; 

 Mrs. J. E. Hood, Second Vice-President; Miss S. M. Ducloux, Treasurer; Miss 



