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ceding any right wo had in our waters and in the international 

 waters — whatever rights on Lake Superior bordering on Minne- 

 sota. That is in tlie record. 



President : I thinlv Wisconsin lias done the same thing this 

 session. Xow, let ns all get together. Let every man from every 

 state in the union go to worlv to secure the same sort of legisla- 

 tion. 



Mr. Meehan : ]\Ir. Fnllerton, are the laws passed by Wis- 

 consin and Minnesota, did you say? 



]\[r. Fnllerton : They have passed resolutions ceding any 

 rights they niiglit have. 



^Ir. ]\Ieehan : Are those laws in what we might call satis- 

 factory and proper shape ? 



Mr. Fnllerton : Proper shape. 



President: Aren't you speaking of two different things? 

 The two states have passed laws ceding whatever rights they 

 have to the national government when the national government 

 legislates, but of course no legislation has yet been had by the 

 national government. !Mr. Fnllerton can speak in regard to 

 the joint legislation of Wisconsin and ]\Iinnesota in regard to thi^ 

 Mississippi river. 



Mr. Meehan : I was referring to what you are saying about 

 federal control. 



Mr. Fnllerton : Of course no law has been passed by Wis- 

 consin or Minnesota. It is only a resolution ceding any rights 

 we may have. 



Mr. Meehan: Then it is ceded back now? 



President : Yes. 



Mr. Fnllerton : With regard to fishing on the Mississippi 

 river where it forms the boundary between Wisconsin and Min- 

 nesota, they would arrest our fishermen and we would arrest 

 theirs, and it was pulling and hauling all the time, and finally a 

 delegation went down there and met a delegation at Madison, 

 and we had a unifomi law passed so that the law in Minnesota 



