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fled themselves at that point in time as being with the U.S. Fish 

 and WildHfe; stated that the field was baited, and that I was hunt- 

 ing over a baited field; they were closing the hunt; they were going 

 to take my license and for me to go under a group of trees to give 

 a statement. 



And I asked that agent at that point in time that I gave my li- 

 cense, I said sir, I will certainly do that, but I have not seen any 

 grain where I was hunting, and would you please show me the 

 proximity of grain to where I am hunting. I am hunting over there 

 in those bushes. And he said it is everywhere. 



The Chairman. Did he show you any grain? 



Mr. BOE. No, sir, the agent did not. 



The Chairman. Did he make any effort to show you any grain? 



Mr. BoE. He said it is everywhere, and he kept saying it is every- 

 where. 



The Chairman. The reason I asked that, in his testimony, the 

 Fish and Wildlife, they have photographs. Now, I do not know 

 where those photographs were taken. Did anyone see them taking 

 photographs? 



Mr. BOE. I did not even know they were taken. 



The Chairman. I mean, I could take a photograph on this floor 

 out here and show you seeds. 



Mr. Miller. Is the gentleman suggesting perjury or something 

 here? Why do we not swear all of the witnesses and start over? 



The Chairman. It is my time. 



Mr. Miller. I have no problem 



The Chairman. It is my time, and you are not the Chairman; I 

 want you to remember that. You are not the Chairman, and it is 

 my time. 



Mr. Miller. And you are suggesting 



The Chairman. When it is my time — it is still my time. It is my 

 time. 



Mr. Miller. I have a right to try to get you to yield. 



The Chairman. It is my time, and I am not going to yield. 



Mr. Miller. Fine. 



The Chairman. You know, you have your time later on. 



Mr. Boe. Congressman, in reference to your question, I did re- 

 quest at the point of surrendering my license to have the bait iden- 

 tified in the field which they claimed was there, and they did not 

 do so. And I might add they were trying to, I guess, collect as many 

 licenses as possible. Maybe in their eyes, it was impractical. I made 

 the request; it was not granted. Later, when I went under a group 

 of trees, a different officer took my statement and he asked where 

 do you work? What type of work do you do? Some very unusual 

 questions, in my opinion, in relationship to what we were there for. 



And I stated while you are taking this statement, do you not 

 want to know where in this field I was hunting? And the person 

 looked at me like I was nuts, like what do you want to know that 

 for? And I said I do not think there is any grain around where I 

 am hunting; I want you to specifically put in my statement exactly 

 where I was in this field. And that makes sense. I mean, we had 

 the O.J. Simpson trial on T.V., and evidence seems to be important, 

 especially, proximity to the accused, and I thought that was a log- 

 ical question. I do not even think that my statement probably even 



