STORY OF OUR GAME SANCTUARY 

 BILLS IN CONGRESS 



NONE of the sponsors of the Permanent Wild Life Pro- 

 tection Fund's measure for the creation of about one 

 hundred game sanctuaries in national forests ever supposed 

 that a measure of that magnitude could or would be enacted 

 by Congress into a federal law without a series of adven- 

 tures. A small measure, that affects very few persons or 

 interests, often floats through both houses on a wave of 

 "unanimous consent," but a measure affecting twenty-seven 

 states is certain to arouse some opposition. With the game 

 sanctuary bill, the only thing we need fear is filibustering 

 to prevent a vote! 



Our bill was quite ready on December 1, 1915, but outside 

 influences that desired to be placated held up its introduc- 

 tion throughout the whole of December. 



January 5, 1916. — Senator George E. Chamberlain, 

 Democrat, of Oregon, and Senate champion of the prohibi- 

 tory federal plumage clause in the tariff bill, introduced our 

 bill in the United States Senate as S. 3044. It was referred 

 to the Committee on Forest Reservations and the Protec- 

 tion of Game. That Committee promptly referred the bill 

 to the Secretary of Agriculture, and asked for a report. A 

 copy of the original bill appears on page 29 of the Bulletin 

 Section of this volume, in Bulletin No. 2. 



January 4, 1916. — On the previous day the same bill was 

 introduced in the House by Representative Carl Hayden, 

 Democrat, of Arizona, as H. R. No. 6881. It was referred 

 to the Committee on Agriculture ; and that Committee also 

 referred it to the Secretary of Agriculture, for a report. 



