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setting forth wherein that state has fallen short in those 

 matters. 



The results of such conditions are automatic. As night 

 follows day, extermination of game follows the slaughter 

 of game. Let us illustrate. 



Colorado is the state of Senator Thomas, who by ob- 

 jecting to unanimous consent on July 19, blocked a vote 

 on the Chamberlain game sanctuary bill that otherwise 

 would have been passed by the Senate on that day. 



Colorado, we repeat, always has been regarded as one of 

 the best game-protecting states of the West. For many 

 years it has had game protective laws and game wardens, 

 and has paid a great deal of sincere attention to the business 

 of preserving her wild life. 



Originally that state had a mighty stock of big game, — 

 bison, elk, deer of two species, antelope, mountain sheep, 

 and bear. In 1900, deer in western Colorado were marvel- 

 ously abundant. Her bison were long ago completely exter- 

 minated, her elk, very nearly so. Today all the big game 

 of Colorado is so far gone that the state has felt compelled 

 to stop all hunting of big game, — elk, deer, mountain sheep, 

 antelope and bear. The people of Colorado can hunt noth- 

 ing but rabbits, grouse, quail and introduced pheasants. 

 Mountain sheep so nearly disappeared 28 years ago that 

 sheep hunting was stopped then ; and since that time Colo- 

 rado's wild sheep have increased to over 7,000 head ! 



And today the citizens of Colorado, at their own expense 

 are hauling elk from the Yellowstone Park with which to 

 re-stock their desolate mountains; and Colorado men are 

 begging that federal laws shall be passed for the protection 

 of those elk in inviolable SANCTUARIES. Men like Tod 

 Powell, of Colorado Springs, are anxiously awaiting the 

 enactment of the very law to which Senator Thomas now 

 "objects !" 



Wyoming is the state of objector Mondell. The greatest 

 crime of this state was the annihilation, according to the 



