54 Tzvciify-si.rtJ} Annual Meeting 



Mr. Dickerson: I have a resolution to offer liere, handed me 

 by Mr. Gunckel. 



Resolution read, as follows: 



By ATr. Gunckel: 



With a view of getting a uniform law for the protection of 

 fish in the lake states. I move that the chair appomt one repre- 

 sentative, who shall be a member of this society, from each of 

 the states bordering on the great lakes, as a connnittee for the 

 purpose of laying the matter of fish protection before the of^cials 

 of their respective states, to get ideas, suggestions and such facts 

 as will lead to the framing of uniform laws to regulate the fish- 

 eries in all the lake states. The chairman of such committee 

 to file his report with the ])resident of the society on or before 

 November ist. 181)7. when the president sliall refer the report to 

 the Executive Committee, who shall take immediate action. 



Professor Birge: I move that the resolution be adopted. 



The motion was supported. 



Mr. Gunckel: As a matter of explanation. I will say my time 

 yesterday was very limited here; I had to return to Toledo last 

 night and came back this morning. During my stay at home I 

 referred back to the records of the meetings for a number of 

 years, and I discovered that at each meeting several hours have 

 been expended in arguing on the object of this motion. As I 

 have stated, by correspondence and personal conversations with 

 some of the high officials of the United States, I have come to 

 the conclusion that this matter, suggested last year by our pres- 

 ent chairman, was the most feasible that could be adopted by this 

 society. Because then it would introduce the sul)ject and it 

 would lead to harmony in the laws of the various States and the 

 water belonging to the government. The government would 

 then take some action for the lead, what we have been after for 

 a number of years. This is a suggestion of President McKinley. 

 He realizes the fact that the laws of the various States are in 

 conflict, and it seems to me almost impossible for this society 

 to work in any other way and gain that success which we have 

 been after than this; to appoint one good representative from 

 each State to hold consultations and discuss the matter with the 

 ofificials of the various States, and it may open a field that may 

 result favorably to this association, one of its leading objects. I 

 emphasize that because I noticed in reading the past reports that 

 that seemed to be one of the leading questions of the association ; 



