EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON, Secretary 



Address all correspondence, and send all remittances for dues and contributions, to 

 the National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York City. 



William Butcher, President 

 Frederic A. Lucas, Acting President T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary 



Theodore S. Palmer, First Vice-President Jonathan Dwight, Jr., Treasurer 

 Samuel T. Carter, Jr., Attorney 



Any person, club, school or company in sympathy with the objects of this Association may become 

 a member of it, and all are welcome. 



Classes of Membership in the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild 

 Birds and Animals: 



$5 annually pays for a Sustaining Membership 

 $100 paid at one time constitutes a Life Membership 

 Si ,000 constitutes a person a Patron 

 $S,ooo constitutes a person a Founder 

 $25,000 constitutes a person a Benefactor 



Form of Bequest: — I do hereby give and bequeath to the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals (Incorporated), of the City of New York. 



THE ENABLING ACT BECOMES A LAW 



The Enabling Act to make operative the 

 treaty between the United States and 

 Great Britain regarding migratory birds 

 of Canada and the United States, after a 

 final, bitter, two days' fight in the House 

 of Representatives, recently was passed. 

 On July 3, 1918, it was signed by President 

 Wilson and is now a law. Thus ends the 

 struggle to secure Government control of 

 migratory birds which began away back 

 in 1904 when the first migratory bird bill 

 was introduced in Congress by Representa- 

 tive George Shiras 3d, of Pennsylvania. 



No complete history of the long struggle 

 that has since ensued for the support of 

 this measure will here be given, but briefly 

 it may be stated that, although the bill 

 advocated by Mr. Shiras did not become 

 a law, others were inspired to follow his 

 example in the succeeding sessions of 

 Congress, and the McLean bill finally was 

 enacted, and signed by President Taft 

 March 4, 1913. 



In the minds of some people there was 

 doubt as to the constitutionality of this 

 measure. At least two Federal judges took 

 this position in cases that were brought 

 before them. One case finally went to the 

 Supreme Court. This body, apparently 

 unable to agree, referred the matter back 



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to the United States Department of 

 Justice with the suggestion that it again 

 be brought before the Supreme Court at a 

 later date. 



In the meantime a movement had been 

 set on foot to secure a treaty between this 

 country and Great Britain, covering the 

 protection of migratory birds in Canada 

 and the United States, the opinion being 

 given by lawyers of high standing that 

 after a treaty covering the principles in- 

 volved in the McLean Law should be con- 

 summated, it would take the place of the 

 McLean Law and would not be subject to 

 revision by the Supreme Court. This 

 treaty was finally ratified by the Senate 

 August 29, 1916. But this did not end 

 the matter, for until Congress should pass 

 an 'Enabling Act' there would be no funds 

 available for enforcing the provisions of 

 the treaty, nor would any department of 

 the Government be authorized to admin- 

 ister it. This Enabling Act, which has 

 been hanging fire in Congress for the 

 past two years, is the one which has just 

 become a law. 



This new statute gives authority to the 

 Department of Agriculture to employ 

 wardens and to make and execute regula- 

 tions for carr5dng out the provisions of the 



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