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WILD LIFE PROTECTION FUND 



February 10 — The Wyoming Legislature, by publication 

 in the Congressional Record, transmitted to the members of 

 the Senate and House of the 64th Congress a "Memorial" 

 entitled, "Enrolled Joint Memorial No. 1," intended for "the 

 President of the United States, the President of the Senate, 

 the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Senators 

 and Representatives in the Congress of the United States 

 from the State of Wyoming, .... and to each of all the 

 Governors of the states having national forest reserves 

 within their boundaries." 



As published in the Congressional Record, section three 

 of the original memorial, breathing a spirit of rebellion 

 against the authority of the United States, was thoughtfully 

 omitted ! 



The memorial referred to above consisted almost wholly 

 of falsehoods and misrepresentations, all of which were ex- 

 posed in a document issued by the Permanent Wild Life 

 Protection Fund on February 23, entitled "The Wyoming 

 Legislature at the Bar of Public Opinion. ,, The text of 

 the document will be found reproduced on page 74-78 of 

 this volume. 



At the close of the 1917 session of Congress our bill died 

 on the calendar, as did hundreds of other bills. Thus ended 

 the adventures of the Hayden game sanctuary bill in the 

 House of Representatives in 1916-17. We are absolutely 

 certain that could it have been brought to a debate and a 

 vote, it would have passed the House by a large majority. 

 The following Representatives declared in writing, and quite 

 voluntarily, their approval of the game sanctuary bill, and 

 their intention to support it : 



Addison T. Smith (Idaho) 

 Henry T. Rainey (111.) 

 Claudius U. Stone (111.) 

 William W. Wilson (111.) 

 Merrill Moores (Ind.) 

 James C. McLaughlin (Mich.) 

 Luther W. Mott (N. Y.) 

 Frederick C. Hicks (N. Y.) 

 Isaac Siegel (N. Y.) 

 Edmund Platt (N. Y.) 



Daniel R. Anthony, Jr. (Kansas) 

 Michael K. Reilly (Wis.) 

 Cordell Hull (Tenn.) 

 William C. Houston (Tenn.) 

 George S. Graham (Pa.) 

 William Kettner (Cal.) 

 Charles H. Randall (Cal.) 

 Edward Keating (Colo.) 

 F. H. Gillett (Mass.) 

 Julius Kahn (Cal.) 



