102 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
Fourth. We suggest the mutual recognition by each State of the licenses issued to 
floating gear by the other State. 
Fifth. That the State of Oregon repeal chapter 89 of the session laws of Oregon 
for the year 1907, relative to the operation of purse seines and other like gear on the 
Columbia River. J 
Sixth. We recommend the enactment of similar laws in both States carrying an 
appropriation of at least $2.500 in each State and providing for the destruction of 
seals and sea lions and the granting of a bounty on the same, to be $2.50 for seals and 
$5 for sea lions. 
Seventh. We recommend the repeal of both the fish bills passed under the provi- 
sions of the initiative and referendum in June, 1907, by the people of the State of 
Oregon, said bills being designated on the ballot as 318, 319 and 332, 333. 
The recommendations were enacted into law by both States, and 
at the same time the State of Washington in its bill also prohibited 
fishing for salmon within 3 miles of the mouth of the Columbia 
between March 1 and May 1 and between August 25 and September 
10, or salmon fishing on tributaries of the Columbia, except the Snake, 
between June 1 and September 15; and also prohibited fishing for 
salmon by any means save by hook and line in the Kalama, Lewis, 
Wind, Little White Salmon, Wenatchee, Methow, and Spokane 
Rivers and in the Columbia River 1 mile below the mouth of any of 
the rivers named. The agreement was subjected to a rather severe 
strain, however, when it was discovered that the Oregon Legislature 
had failed to provide the same closed periods for the tributaries that 
were enacted for the Columbia, thus leaving the Willamette, Clacka- 
mas, Lewis and Clark, and Youngs Rivers and Spikanon Creek open 
to fishing for 15 days in March and 15 days in April, while the 
Columbia was closed. The cry of bad faith was at once raised by 
the Washington fishermen, and for a short time it appeared that the 
agreement would be broken at the very beginning. The Oregon 
Board of Fish Commissioners took the matter up, however, and by 
order closed these streams to all fishing -during the times of closed 
season on the Columbia, and thus restored peace once more. 
This agreement continued in force until 1915, when the legislature 
of each State prepared for a thorough revision of its fishery code. In 
order to make this revision more effective, committees from both 
legislatures were appointed and held joint meetings in Portland, 
where they mutually agreed upon laws covering the fisheries of the 
Columbia River, and in order to make this agreement more binding 
the following chapter was inserted in the codes finally adopted: 
All laws and regulations now existing, or which may be necessary for regulating, 
protecting, or preserving fish in the waters of the Columbia River, over which the 
States of Oregon and Washington have concurrent jurisdiction, or any other waters 
within either of said States, which would affect said concurrent jurisdiction, shall-be 
made, changed, altered, and amended in whole or in part only with the mutual 
consent and approbation of both States. 
As such an agreement between two States requires the approval 
of Congress, a bill ratifying the same was introduced in Congress on 
December 16, 1915, but was not finally ratified until April 1, 1918. 
While the compact was pending in Congress, the Washington 
legislature at its 1917 session made several changes in the existing 
fisheries law and contended they were effective because the com- 
pact agreement was not ratified by Congress until 1918, which then 
did not take recognition of the new regulations. When the matter 
came officially before the superior court of Pacific County, Wash., 
in 1919, the court held that the compact was valid, thus nullifying 
