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 LECTURES ANDSLIDES 

 Jesse Lowe Smith. - highland Park 



June 23, 1916 



This is to direct your attention to the activities of an organization calling itself the Inter-state 

 Sportsmen's Protective Association which is at present making a vigorous attack upon an item in the 

 Agricultural appropriation bill in which the sum of $50,000.00 is allotted to the U. S. Biological Survey 

 to be used in enforcing the provisions of the Federal Migratory Bird Law. This organization of which 

 Mr. J. H. Aldous of Alton is president is made up of a small group of hunters in and about St. Louis 

 who wish the above-named law amended to permit of Spring shooting of ducks and geese. As they 

 have not been able to accomplish this, they are trying to cripple the work of the Survey by defeating 

 the much-needed appropriation. They have even attacked the Survey directly. In the columns of 

 the St. Louis Globe-Democrat Mr. Aldous has announced that if the Biological Survey persists in en- 

 forcing the regulation concerning Spring shooting his organization will "put the Survey out of business." 



Now in all this activity, these shotgun hunters of St. Louis and vicinity claim with astonishing 

 effrontery to represent the people of Illinois. They list the following Congressmen from Illinois 

 as favoring the amendment of the Migratory Bird Law to permit shooting until March 31: 



W. A. Rodenberg 

 B. M. Chiperfield 

 E. E. Dennison 

 Edward J. King 

 L. E. Wheeler 



Martin B. Madden 

 C. U. Stone 

 Thos. Gallagher 

 C. H. Tavenner 

 Charles E. Fuller 

 James D. McDermott 



F. A. Britten 

 John C. McKenzie 

 T. S. Williams 

 John A. Sterling 

 W. B. McKinley 

 J. G. Cannon. 



In commenting upon the above it is hardly necessary to say that the great majority of the peo- 

 ple of Illinois that have any information at all upon the subject are strongly in favor of the rigid en- 

 forcement of the regulations proposed by the Biological Survey. These regulations look* to the ac- 

 complishment of the purpose of the Federal Migratory Bird Law, namely, to prevent the extermina- 

 tion of certain species of birds; to secure an increase in numbers of certain desirable species; to 

 equalize as far as may be opportunities for using certain species for recreation shooting and food pur- 

 poses. They should be supported by the Congressmen from Illinois and from her Senators as well. 

 Shall we not urge them to do so? 



The item in the appropriation bill referred to has passed the House. It is now before the Sen- 

 ate. It would seem that now is the time for all of us in Illinois who favor the conservation of bird 

 life to rally to the support of the U. S. Biological Survey and repudiate unsparingly the efforts of the 

 small minority who in their attacks upon the Survey claim to represent the people of Illinois. 



Let us do this and do it at once, and in the following manner: Write Senators Lewis and Sher- 

 man urging their active support of the item of $50,000.00 in the appropriation bill. Write to the 

 Honorable D. F. Houston, Secretary of Agriculture, protesting against any amendment permitting 

 the shooting of birds on their northward migration, or anywhere on the continent after February I. 

 Do it now. 



THE ILLINOIS STATE AUDUBON SOCIETY. 

 Per Orpheus M. Schantz, President 



Mrs. Frederic H. Pattee, Secretary 

 2436 Prairie Avenue, Evanston, 111. 



