60 WILD LIFE PROTECTION FUND 



The first session of the 64th Congress adjourned without 

 the Hayden Bill having been reached ; but our bill was placed 

 on the union calendar as No. 363. 



When the second session of the 64th Congress convened 

 in December, 1916, the friends of the Hayden bill prepared 

 to bring that measure to a vote on one of the calendar 

 Wednesdays assigned to the Committee on Agriculture. 

 Those dates were January 10 and January 17. 



January 7, 1917 — On this date the Hayden bill came with- 

 in one hour of being passed by the House ! For that calen- 

 dar Wednesday it was bill No. 3, and at first there seemed 

 to be an excellent prospect that it could be reached. Sev- 

 eral members of the House Committee on Agriculture (of 

 whom Representative Reilly had the bill in charge) , re- 

 mained at "attention" in the House for two hours, for the 

 purpose of calling up the bill and passing it as soon as it 

 could be reached. Unfortunately, however, three hours of 

 the time available to the Committee on Agriculture were 

 consumed by a tiresome and almost interminable series of 

 speeches and colloquies on the hog cholera serum bill. Fin- 

 ally, however, the consideration of that measure terminated 

 at four o'clock; when bill No. 2 was taken up. Bill No. 2 

 consumed all the remaining time of that session, and pre- 

 vented our bill from being reached. Thus was one of our 

 opportunities lost. 



February 5. — On this date Mr. Reilly called up the game 

 sanctuary bill under the unanimous consent rule, and Mr. 

 Mondell made the one "objection," which was sufficient to 

 prevent consideration. Thus was the last opportunity of 

 the 64th Congress lost. Mr. Mondell naively explained that 

 the bill had been amended to meet his views, but inasmuch 

 as he had been notified that a memorial to Congress con- 

 demning the bill had been adopted by the Wyoming legisla- 

 ture he felt it to be his duty to file an objection. 



A little later the following was reliably reported from 

 Wyoming : 



