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Eventually, one or two of the proposed alterations were 

 accepted. The Secretary of Agriculture rendered a report 

 to the House, but for some inscrutable reason it was impos- 

 sible to induce the House Committee on Agriculture to do 

 anything with that bill until late in May, when a special 

 sub-committee was appointed to consider the bill, and report 

 to the full Committee. The bill was reintroduced, and re- 

 printed, and renumbered as H. R. 11712. 



June 1 — The sub-committee, consisting of Hon. H. M. 

 Jacoway (Ark.), Chairman; Hon. John V. Lesher, Hon. M. 

 K. Reilly, Hon. James C. McLaughlin and Hon. W. W. Wil- 

 son, held its first hearing on the Hayden bill. There ap- 

 peared at the hearing, in support of the bill, Mr. H. S. 

 Graves, Chief Forester, Mr. E. W. Nelson, Asst. Chief Bio- 

 logical Survey, and W. T. Hornaday. Against the bill ap- 

 peared Representative MondelL of Wyoming, who opposed 

 the bill as an invasion of the rights of the state of Wyoming. 



June 17 — Another hearing was held, at which Mr. Mon- 

 dell again appeared in opposition, and read into the record 

 a long typewritten attack. Mr. Mondell admitted that he 

 had "never received a communication from a citizen of my 

 state asking me to oppose the bill, but I have received a 

 number of communications asking me to support it," — 

 among which there was one pledge of support signed by 646 

 citizens of Wyoming. 



The bill was supported by W. T. Hornaday, R. W. Wil- 

 liams, Assistant to the Solicitor of the Dept. of Agriculture, 

 and W. C. Barnes, Assistant Forester, in the order named. 

 The proceedings of that hearing have been published by 

 Congress, under the title of "Hearings before the Sub-Com- 

 mitte of the Committee on Agriculture, H. R. 64th Congress, 

 first session, on H. R. 11712." A copy is bound into this 

 volume near the end of the Bulletin section, as a permanent 

 record. 



July 21 — At a session of the Sub-Committee held on this 

 date, Col. John H. Wallace, Jr., State Game Commissioner 



