40 Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting. 
Mr. Clark: I move that Mr. Fullerton’s resolution regard- 
ing the cession of the control of the Great Lakes fisheries to the 
general government, be taken from the table. 
Motion seconded and carried. 
Resolution reread. 
Motion made and seconded that the resolution be adopted. 
Mr. Meehan: I would like to ask one question before that 
is done. Do the efforts of Representative Shiras referred to, 
cover fish alone or only game? 
Mr. Fullerton: I suppose everyone as well as myself has 
read of Representative Shiras and his efforts to get a federal law 
passed to protect migratory birds in their flights to the north. 
He switched on that during the last session and has now a bill 
in preparation in regard to fish. What has drawn my attention 
to it particularly is a discussion in the American Field, between 
Mr. Shiras and a California judge, as to the constitutionality of 
the law. But the probability is that the law is constitutional. 
The bill proposes that the United States take the control of the 
Great Lakes bordering on the states and Canada, and also on 
interstate waters bordering on the states, such as the Mississipp1 
river, in which we are greatly interested, between Wisconsin and 
our own state, and that we may not only plant fish there, but 
protect them by national legislation. The purpose is to have a 
uniform law that fish shall only be taken in certain seasons, 
only be taken of a certain length, and by certain means. That is 
the purpose of the Shiras bill, and that is why I submit this reso- 
lution to the society here to get its endorsement, because I believe 
it is one of the most vital things that can come before the society, 
that is, the protection of the fish in our Great Lakes, and also in 
interstate waters. We can never get two states together, let alone 
forty, to pass the same laws. Minnesota may have one law regu- 
lating fish, Wisconsin another, Michigan and Iowa and the Dako- 
tas another, and when such conditions as that exist it is pretty 
hard to do anything in the line of fish protection. Our only 
salvation is in having congress take hold of the matter, and when 
that is done the problem will be solved. 
Mr. Joslyn: I do not like to take up any time, but while I 
have been away I have been thinking of that resolution a little, 

