3D GAME REFUGES. 



in which. I met many representative men and women face to face. 

 In each one of my 23 addresses I said: 



This is a question to be decided by the people of the West. Do you wish these 

 game sanctuaries, or not? If you say that you do not, I, for one, will drop the whole 

 matter instantly. 



Mr. Chairman, the most thoroughly representative people of the 

 West have said that they do desire these sanctuaries. To save busy 

 Members of Congress from being burdened by a vast number of 

 letters requiring answers, I devised a new plan. The friends of this 

 cause circulated cards stating the terms of this game sanctuary plan, 

 and inviting declarations in writing of approval and support. I did 

 not circulate those cards myself; not at all. I handed them out in 

 bulk. Kecently I have placed in the hands of all the Members of 

 both Houses of Congress my red Bulletin No. 2, stating the whole 

 case, and giving, State by State, the names and addresses of the 

 representative men and women who believe that the Chamberlain- 

 Hayden bill should be translated into statute law. 



The millions of people in the East who believe in game sanctuaries — 

 and are making them just as fast as they can— have not been asked 

 to come forward and rush this cause through without regard to the 

 views of the people of the West. The support that I am now offering 

 you in behalf of the Hayden bill is distinctly and almost wholly 

 western support, from the States in which the largest national 

 forests are located. 



Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, going back to the remarks of the 

 gentleman from Wyoming, I am proud and thankful to say that the 

 United States Government has done much in the setting aside of bird 

 sanctuaries and game preserves for the preservation of wild life in this 

 country; and up to this time we have yet to hear of a single case 

 wherein the United States Government has been asked to undo any 

 of those acts. 



It is quite true that a good many bird sanctuaries have been created, 

 as Mr. Mondell has said. And what are they, and of what do they 

 consist ? 



On one hand they consist of outlying islands on our seacoasts, unin- 

 habited and unusable, and on the other hand, a very, very small 

 number of interior lakes, the total number of which is exceedingly 

 small, that constitute important resting places .and breeding grounds 

 for migratory wild fowl. Now, it may be that something calamitous 

 will occur to the people of this Nation on account of the establishment 

 of the wild-bird sanctuaries that have been established in this horrible, 

 this nefarious way, but we await the arrival of such a catastrophe with 

 entire complaisance. Any city that gives up any part of its public 

 parks for commercial purposes would nowadays be considered on the 

 decline, and the time never will come when the United States Govern- 

 ment, or in my opinion, any State government, will be called upon to 

 yield up to commercial purposes any one of its bird sanctuaries, or its 

 national parks, or game preserves. 



I propose to treat this whole question wholly as a matter of 

 expediency. I am perfectly satisfied, and even delighted, with the 

 presentation of our side of the case which Solicitor Williams has 

 made. It seems to me to leave nothing to be desired. The whole 

 question hinges on whether or not the United States Government 



