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Mr. Fnllcrtoii: Tliat is oood. 



Mr. Mecliaii : I tliiiik that would meet the point. Have a 

 special eomniittee apjxjiiited to (h'aft a uniform l)ill to he g-iveri 

 to each commission in each state for presentation at the nexi 

 session of the legislature. I will say frankly that if sueh a hill 

 is handed to me it will he handed to the legislature. 



Mr. Fullerton : All that is necessary is to pass a resolution 

 hy each state government, ceding any rights they have, — not a 

 complicated hill at all, sinijjly a few words. But the Shiras Bill 

 covers the point we want. If anyhody wants to read it, it can be 

 gotten in the American Fiekl, Forest and Stream of last May or 

 June. That covers every point that we are contending for. Mr. 

 Shiras has gone into it very fully. 



President: I should like to say that we ])assed resolutions a 

 3-ear ago, and probably on earlier occasions, "'that there should 

 be federal control of boundary streams, and that the states con- 

 cerned should cede their rights to the national government. We 

 heartily commend the efforts of Mr. George Shiras." 



Mr. Fullerton: That is the man. 



President: We have passed resolutions, and a copy of the 

 resolutions was to be sent to each member of Congress. I sup- 

 pose that was done. 



:\lr. ileiiry T. Koot, Providence, R. I.: Mr. President, they 

 only api>ly to these interstate waters. It would not apply to in- 

 land waters like Connecticut. If we find a man putting a tra]) 

 or nets at the mouth of a river where shad run up. or any other 

 fish, to spawn, we make them remove it. Xow, we are going 

 further, or trying to go further with tlie pound nets. Under our 

 law, the harbor commissioners, if they find an obstruction to 

 navagation, can have it removed, and the pound nets are getting 

 so large there that we are trying to show that they are an ob- 

 str\iction to navigation, and we will get rid of the pound nets in 

 that way. The United States allows navigation, even to naphtha 

 launches, or an3^thing else; they ow^n the waters and nobody has 

 anv right to place an obstruction in them, — that is, in salt waters. 

 I think if Connecticut had our laws thev could control the migra- 



