The Boone and Crockett Club 



gress looking to the repeal or modification of the 

 Alaska game laws. This repeal, engineered by 

 Senator Dillingham on his return from a trip to 

 Alaska, brought on an earnest struggle between 

 the Club on the one hand and Senator Dillingham 

 on the other. After much discussion and the pro- 

 duction of not a little testimony by both sides, 

 Senator Dillingham withdrew the bill. 



The present Alaska game law, drafted by Hon. 

 W. E. Humphrey in 1908, is a modification of 

 the old law. 



It is obvious that a game law for Alaska, to be 

 effective, must have the moral support of the best 

 people in the territory. Over a region, much of 

 which is still untrodden and which is traversed by 

 men who of necessity must live largely on the 

 country, a law that forbids men to kill food for 

 themselves while traveling, cannot have popular 

 support. The vastness of Alaska, the conditions 

 of a region yet unsettled, and the limited number 

 of officials who can be called on to enforce the law, 

 must make any statute that does not appeal to the 

 intelligence of the settlers a mere dead letter. 



The present law is quite ineffective, and its pro- 

 visions are enforced only against the exporting 

 sportsmen and taxidermists. Against these it 

 works well. 



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