American Fisheries Society. 
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Mr. Meehan: In regard to the pollution of streams, we 
made such a fight before the legislature this year that we com- 
pelled the manufacturers, so to speak, to sit up, and did succeed 
in getting a moderate anti-water-pollution measure passed ; and 
we will succeed, I hope, in the next legislature, in getting some- 
thing better, but we are suffering very much from water pol- 
lution; I think in Pennsylvania more perhaps than in most of 
the states; because until this time we were at the foot of the roll 
of states in preserving the purity of the waters of any partic- 
ular state. I believe this resolution should be approved, and 
approved by a rising vote. 
I think furthermore that the resolution itself should be 
given the very widest publicity, to give it all the power and 
force of the support of this society; and I think we should all 
work to secure the passage of proper protective measures in our 
respective legislatures. 
Last year we formed a state organization and it is a pretty 
strong organization this year. It was so strong that it was able 
to effect legislation in favor of the fish; and the prospects are 
that it will be exceedingly powerful before long. To give an 
idea of the strength of that organization | may say that one 
measure came up last winter to which a certain senator was 
very much opposed, because his constituents, he claimed, were 
opposed to it 

as he said: “The manufacturing interests.” It was 
on the question of water pollution. Within ten days that man 
said: “I would like to know who said I was opposed to this 
measure on water pollution; I never said I was opposed to it. 
I want to do what my constituents say. I have had no less than 
2000 letters come to me, demanding that I vote for the bill, and 
Tam for it.” It was the fish protective organizations connected 
with the State Society which were back of the letter-writing. 
Mr. Joslyn: I want to stand up and be counted on this 
question. It is time, I think, that every state in the union stood 
up to be counted. This is not a question merely of preserving 
some financial or commercial industry, it is a question of pre- 
serving a cheap and healthful food for all the people of the 
country. 
It has seemed to me, Mr. President, in view of the various 
troubles that our sister state New York is in, that it is pretty 
