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The full vote on sustaining the national bird law, with 

 $50,000 for its enforcement, was as follows : 



ROLL OF HONOR OF SENATORS WHO SAVED THE FEDERAL 

 MIGRATORY BIRD LAW, MAY 12, 1914. 



(Many other friends of the measure were either paired or absent ) 



Henry F. Asmurst. Arizona. Harry Lane, Oregon. 



James H. Brady, Idaho. Blair Lee, Maryland. 



Frank B. Brandegee, Connecticut. Pouter J. McCumber, North Dakota. 



Joseph L. Bristow, Kansas. George P. McLean, Connecticut. 



Edwin C. Burleigh, Maine. James E. Martine, New Jersey. 



Thomas E. Burton, Ohio. George W. Norris, Nebraska. 



George E. Chamberlain, Oregon. George T. Oliver, Pennsylvania. 



Moses E. Clapp, Minnesota. Robert L. Owen, Oklahoma. 



Clarence D. Clark, Wyoming. Carroll S. Page, Vermont. 



LeBaron B. Colt, Rhode Island. George C. Perkins, California. 



Albert B. Cum3Iins, Iowa. Miles Poindexter, Washington. 



William P. Dillingham, Vermont. Morris Sheppard, Texas. 



Henry A. duPont, Delaware. Lawrence Y. Sherman, Illinois. 

 Jacob H. Gallinger, New Hampshire.BENjAMiN F. Shively, Indiana. 



Asle J. Gronna. Nortn Dakota. Marcus A. Smith, Arizona. 



Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Nebraska. Reed Smoot, Utah. 



Henry F. Hollis, New Hampshire. Thomas Sterling, South Dakota. 



William Hughes, New Jersey. William H. Thompson, Kansas. 



Charles F. Johnson, Maine. John R. Thornton, Louisiana. 



Wesley L. Jones, Washington. Charles E. Townsend, Michigan. 



William S. Kenyon. Iowa. John W. Weeks, Massachusetts. 

 Robert M. La Follette. Wisconsin. John S. Williams, Mississippi. 



John D. Works, California. 



The vote to destroy the bird law by non-enforcement was 

 as follows: 



John H. Bankhead, Alabama. Joe T. Robinson, Arkansas. 



Nathan P. Bryan, Florida. Willard Saulsbury, Delaware. 



Thomas P. Gore, Oklahoma. John F. Shafroth, Colorado. 



E. W. Martin, South Dakota. Hoke Smith, Georgia. 



Francis G. Newlands, Nevada. Mr. West, Georgia. 



Lee S. Overman, North Carolina. William J. Stone, Missouri. 



Joseph E. Ransdell, Louisiana. Benjamin R. Tillman, South Carolina 



James A. Reed, Missouri. James K. Vardamann, Mississippi. 



We note— with profound surprise — that nine of those 

 seventeen Senators represent cotton-producing states, 

 wherein, if anywhere on this green earth, the services of 

 the insectivorous birds are most needed in combating the 

 boll-weevil that annually destroys millions of dollars' worth 

 of cottonl There are 52 species of birds that feed on the 

 boll-weevil! Now what have the cotton-growers of Ala- 



