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go over!" Many are the sins for which that malevolent 

 fetich is blamable. 



We have previously pointed out, in the second volume of 

 this Statement, that through the abused privilege of sena- 

 torial courtesy, five times on a one-man "Let-that-go-over" 

 demand, the will of the best conservationists of America 

 was set at naught in the house of its friends, and the Sen- 

 ate failed to come to a vote on the bill that a fine majority 

 was ready and willing to pass ! 



The failure of the bill in the House was due wholly and 

 solely to the impossibility of getting a vote upon it. It could 

 come up only on a "calendar Wednesday," under the call of 

 the Committee on Agriculture. Once, indeed, success seemed 

 v/ithin our grasp. But our time was consumed by a long- 

 winded, rambling and utterly tiresome colloquy on a charm- 

 ing bill for the regulation of hog-cholera, which held the 

 floor until the hour for adjournment and killed our one 

 chance for a vote. The democratic leaders were on the floor 

 for the purpose of passing our bill. 



In a long-winded circular letter issued in 1919, Represen- 

 tative Mondell stated that "I succeeded in scotching the 

 Hornaday game sanctuary bill in the House" ; but according 

 to the facts of history Mr. Mondell did nothing of the kind. 

 The leaders of the (Democratic) majority in the House 

 waited patiently in their seats for two long hours for the bill 

 to be called up, debated and passed ; and but for hog cholera 

 they would have delivered the goods. 



As everyone knows, America's active entrance into the 

 war changed everything, and rendered important game pro- 

 tective legislation utterly impossible. An order reached 

 Congress from the President to the effect that no committee 

 was to consider any measures but war measures, or sub- 

 jects connected therewith. Even down to the present hour 

 the war, the peace, the climbing sorrow of the league of 

 nations, industrial unrest and the high cost of living have 

 combined to continue the four-year-long impossibility to 



