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““That the erection of dams, barricades, or other obstructions in any of the rivers 
of Alaska, with the purpose or result of preventing or impeding the ascent of 
salmon or other anadromous creatures to their spawning grounds, is hereby declared 
to be unlawiul; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed 
to establish such Regulations and surveillance as may be necessary to insure that 
this prohibition is strictly enforced, and to otherwise protect the salmon fisheries of 
Alaska; and every person who shall be found guilty of a violation of the provisions 
of this section shall be fined not less than 250 dollars for each day of the continuance 
of such obstruction. 
“Sec. 2. That the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries is hereby empowered and 
directed to institute an investigation into the habits, abundance, and distribution 
of the salmon of Alaska, as well as the present conditions and methods of the fish- 
eries, with a view of recommending to Congress such additional legislation as may 
be necessary to prevent the impairment or exhaustion of these valuable fisheries, and 
placing them under regular and permanent conditions of production.” 
By unanimous consent, the Senate, as in Committee of the whole, proceeded to 
consider the Bill. 
247 The President, pro tempore.—The question is on agreeing to the amendment 
reported by the Committee on Fisheries. 
The amendment was agreed to. 
The Bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendment was con- 
curred in. 
The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and 
passed. 
Mr. Dawes.—The title should be amended. I call the attention of the Senator 
from Michigan to the fact that the Bill does not relate to the fur seals as amended. 
Mr, Stockbridge.—No, Sir; it relates to the salmon fisheries of Alaska, The title 
should be amended. 
The title was amended so as to read: ‘A Bill to provide for the Protection of the 
Salmon lisheries of Alaska.” 
Mr, Platt.—Does the section of the Revised Statutes which is referred to relate to 
salmon fisheries? 
Mr. Stockbridge.—Yes, Sir. 
Mr. Stewart.—I should like to have the Bill lie over, so that I may look at it. Ido 
not know that I shall want to object to it after I examine it. 
The President, pro tewpore.—The Senator from Nevada moves to reconsider the 
vote by which the Senate passed the Bill. 
Mr. Dawes.—I wish to say to the Senator from Nevada that unless the Bill oes to 
the other branch immediately it will be entirely useless. It is the result of an 
investigation of a Committee m the other branch with reference to the salmon fish- 
eries only. It has nothing to do with the fur-seal fisheries. 
Mr, Stewart.—I will enter a motion to reconsider and look at it. 
The President, pro tempore.—The Senator from Nevada enters a motion to recon- 
sider the vote by which the Bill was passed. 
Mr, Stewart subsequently said: I shonld like to withdraw my motion to recon- 
sider the Bill in regard to the salmon fisheries of Alaska. 
The President, pro tempore.—Is there objection? The Chair hears none, and the 
motion to reconsider is withdrawn. The Lill stands passed. 
Salmon Fisheries of Alaska. 
The Speaker also laid before the House the Bill (S. 3993) to provide for the protec- 
tion of the salmon fisheries of Alaska. 
Mr, Dunn.—Mr. Speaker, the provisions of that Bill are contained in a Bill 
reported unanimously from the Committee on Merchant Marine and lisheries. It 
is an emergency Bill, necessary for the preservation of the salmon fisheries of 
Alaska, and Iask unanimous consent that it be now considered. It contains noth- 
ing else but the necessary measures for the protection of these importiant fisheries. 
The Speaker.—The Bill which the gentleman from Arkansas says has been reported 
from the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries has been read already in the 
House, and unless there be a demand for the reading of the Senate Bill, the reading 
will be dispensed with. 
There was no objection. 
Mr. Anderson, of Kansas.—Is this the Bill that makes the lease to the Fisheries 
Company ? 
Mr. Dunn.—No; this is a different Bill. 1 shall report that from the Committee, 
and give the House ample opportunity to consider it hereafter. This is a Senate 
Bill, which relates simply to the salmon fisheries. It is identical with sections 4 
