SECOND BIENNIAL STATEMENT 125 



believe in giving the boys of Texas a square deal, and who 

 hate slaughter. I mention here the valiant leader, Mr. H. 

 P. Attwater, of Houston, who for many years has fought 

 persistently to make bad things good. I mention HON. 

 Charles H. Mills, of Corsicana; Hon. Charles B. Met- 

 calfe, of San Angelo ; Mrs. Maude H. Gerhardt, of Corpus 

 Christi, of the State Federation of Women's Clubs, and 

 Hon. R. L. Carlock, of Forth Worth. 



For Texas we prepared a large poster, entitled, "What 

 is the matter with Texas?" We illustrated it with Texas 

 pictures of game slaughter, and we printed and circulated 

 2,500 copies. On dates suitably chosen this document was 

 sent to all members of the new Texas legislature, to 450 

 newspapers, 350 postmasters, also to a great number of 

 prominent citizens, both friends and foes of wild life. 



The first session of the Texas legislature adjourned with- 

 out having done anything whatever for the benefit of the 

 wild life of the state except to give a 25-year close season to 

 its very small remnants of mountain sheep and prong- 

 horned antelope. An extra session has been called to con- 

 vene on April 15, and of course there is a possibility that 

 something more may be accomplished at that session. 



Referring to the previous session, it is stated by a mem- 

 ber of the legislature that "the 7,000 powder and shot gun 

 sellers were able to prevent us from getting a game protec- 

 tion bill through." This means that all upland game birds 

 are to be shot as usual, not even the quail being protected. 



