SECOND BIENNIAL STATEMENT 61 



"Immediately after the campaign instituted for the Cham- 

 berlain-Hayden bill, and immediately after the hearing be- 

 fore the Committee, at which you and Mr. Mondell testified, 

 Mr. Mondell wrote a letter to each member elect of the Sen- 

 ate and House of Representatives of this State, and sent each 

 of them a copy of the hearing before the Committee, and a 

 letter, strongly urging them to take the action they did take 

 in connection with the memorial you complain about. I sup- 

 posed all the time you knew this. I was able to get hold 

 of only one copy of his letter, which in some way I have 

 mislaid, but as I remember its contents it was a strong ti- 

 rade against the right of the general Government to assert 

 supervision over the wild game of the State as against State 

 control. 



"I think this letter was published generally throughout 

 the state. At least I met with it on several occasions. 



"The members of the legislature were early in the game 

 impregnated with opposition to the Chamberlain-Hayden 

 bill, as most of the people of the state were, not on account 

 of the proposal to protect game in the state under its provi- 

 sions, but as a strong radical measure embracing all there 

 is in the supposed encroachment of the Federal Government 

 upon the rights of the State to control its own resources. 



"The matter of the hearing before the Committee, as to 

 the mariner of control, urged by the representatives of the 

 Government, was at variance to the statements made in ad- 

 dresses sent out, as I view the subject; and I believe it was 

 fully before me." 



From this it appears that Mr. Mondell made from the 

 very beginning down to February 5, 1917, a vigorous cam- 

 paign against the Hayden game sanctuary bill. That would 

 have been all perfectly proper, but for one detail, — the 

 shamelessly false and deceptive character of the "memorial" 

 to Congress from the Wyoming Legislature. The trans- 

 mission of lies to Congress and the President of the United 

 States is in bad taste. 



