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Committee, and all these matters are referred to that 

 Committee, which is jointly interested in these two 

 matters. The}- came on one occasion into conflict over 

 some game laws and lish laws, which did not work 

 harmonionsly, and it was fonnd that probably the fish 

 interest had better be alone, and the game laws alone, 

 in the charge of separate committees. I am fnlly in 

 favor of protecting some way both the game as well as 

 the fish of this conntry. The matter has been np 

 before us in our Societ}' in Philadelphia, with the aim 

 of getting together the different fish organizations of 

 the state, in order that we might conciliate those in 

 the western part of the state, the commission there 

 being rather inimical to some of the laws we want 

 passed for the larger rivers, like the Delaware and 

 Susquehanna. 



In the upper streams they want to clean the 

 streams out in certain parts, which, in our state, have 

 certain of these hatcheries supported by the state 

 funds, and our Societ}' wants to nourish and keep 

 them together and add to them. There is an element 

 in the state which desires to wipe out the commission 

 altogether and to do away with these fish hatcheries. 

 In the session before the last — our Legislature meets 

 every two years — I found that spirit emphasized there, 

 and I did not know but that before the Legislature ad- 

 journed we would have the fish commissioners abol- 

 ished, not this year, but in the future. The idea was 

 to cut down the appropriations and make them so 

 small that they could not support the hatcheries. 

 Then the plan was to cut down the salaries of the 

 commissioners, and make it so useless that a man 

 would not pay attention to the interest, and in that way 

 the effort was made, but it did not succeed. 



The cpiestion is whether this resolution covering 

 both fish and game in the one commission would be 

 advisable or not. I am in favor of it fully, and if it 



