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Secretary Rice addressed them by invitation. He was greeted warmly, and 
closed amid enthusiasm, all the members present coming up and pledging 
support. The following day, committees from House and Senate, meeting 
in conference, gave unanimous report in favor of all of the bills offered. This 
appeared to settle the matter, but it did not, for, after being rejected in the 
Senate and then passed on reconsideration by a vote of three to one, the bill 
finally died in the House, there being five majority against it. 
All power of enforcing law having been taken away from the Audubon 
Society by the act creating a Chief Game Warden, there ensued confusion. 
Upon consultation, it was determined to carry the fight before the people, 
a continuance of the campaign of the previous year. 
Secretary Rice has been continuously on the road, lecturing on birds and 
explaining the resident hunters’ license. In ninety days, he talked to one 
hundred and three audiences, taking a vote by calling for a display of hands, 
each time, and getting every vote at every meeting in favor of the license. 
During the mid-summer months, the Secretary was appointed a lecturer 
on the staff of Clemson Agricultural College, to assist in farmers’ institute 
work and in this way thousands of farmers were seen and talked to, always 
with the same result. A series of articles has been appearing throughout the 
year in daily and weekly papers, descriptive of birds, their habits and 
uses. 
Most of the opponents of the game-bird laws were left at home at the last 
election, and in both houses of the coming Legislature there will be a large 
majority favoring bird protection and the passage of the hunters’ license bill. 
Of the six candidates for governor only one opposed the hunters’ license, 
and he failed to carry his own county. Both Governor-elect Blease and Lieu- 
tenant-Governor Smith are outspoken advocates of bird protection. 
The Society feels encouraged at the prospect, although aware that vigi- 
lance and alertness are always necessary to make sure that the fruits of 
victory are not lost. Every energy will be concentrated on the resident 
hunters’ license, this time. 
Both the Snowy Egret rookery on James Island and the rookery of American 
Egrets on Santee were visited by plume hunters during the summer, and many 
birds killed. The criminals were not apprehended. Owing to the condition 
brought about by the action of the General Assembly, there have not been 
sO many convictions as there were last year. But there have been a number, 
and the people are obeying the laws better than ever before—JAamEs HENRY 
Rice, Jr., Secretary. 
Tennessee.—The East Tennessee Audubon Society was organized at 
Knoxville, Tennessee, on September 2, 1910. The following officers were 
elected: Hi. Tullsen, President; Judge H. Y. Hughes, First Vice-President; 
Mrs. J. E. Hood, Second Vice-President; Miss S. M. Ducloux, Treasurer; Miss 
