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secure a hearing and a vote. And this for a bill that has 

 been deliberately designed to increase the food supply of the 

 nation! 



Inasmuch as our bill expired with the ending of the Sixty- 

 fifth Congress, Senator Knute Nelson kindly consented to 

 introduce the same bill in the present Congress. This was 

 done on June 21, 1919, and the number of the bill now is 

 S. 2182. It was by the advice of its former sponsor, Sena- 

 tor George E. Chamberlain, that the re-introduction was 

 made by Senator Nelson. 



The present Nelson bill agrees word for word with the 

 Chamberlain bill, as the latter was very slightly amended 

 and favorably reported to the Senate, on March 15, 1916, by 

 the Committee on Forest Reservations and the Protection 

 of Game. There exists no good reason for any amendments. 

 All the splendid endorsements of the original plan stand 

 good today for the Nelson bill, because the bill is unchanged 

 and no support has in any manner been withdrawn. 



During the present long session of Congress efforts to se- 

 cure a vote will be continued. But as conditions stand at 

 present in the Senate, the outlook is very discouraging. The 

 trouble is not to secure "votes," but rather to achieve "A 

 vote" by which the measure will be speeded on its way. 



In order to show the attitude of the grazing interests of 

 New Mexico toward the Nelson bill's proposal for game 

 sanctuaries in national forests, the following preamble and 

 resolutions adopted by the New Mexico Wool Growers' As- 

 sociation may fairly be presented as an exhibit. 



We commend it to the attention of all persons who claim 

 that the bill is regarded by the grazing interests with either 

 suspicion or aversion. 



RESOLUTION 



Whereas, The New Mexico Wool Growers' Association 

 three years ago urged upon Congress the necessity for the 

 prompt passage of the National Game Refuge Bill for 

 maintaining a permanent breeding stock of big game, and 



