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believed in violating the migratory bird law. Federal Game 

 Warden R. P. Holland heard the news, watched the killing 

 of a goodly number of ducks, and then cruelly but firmly 

 placed under arrest Missouri's chief defender of the Law. 



By a hard-hearted Judge, Attorney-General McAllister 

 was held for trial and compelled to give a bail bond in the 

 sum of $1,000. In due course the Attorney-General was 

 tried, and swiftly convicted ; whereupon a defense subscrip- 

 tion was collected, and the case was appealed to the U. S. 

 Supreme Court. The brief filed with the Court by Mr. Louis 

 Marshall, of New York, is everything that could be desired 

 in such a document. Rather strange to say, this case w T as 

 chosen by the Supreme Court as the basis of its decision. 



Monday, April 19, 1920, is a date to be long remembered 

 by the bird lovers of all-America. On that date the Supreme 

 Court of the United States announced its decision in the case 

 of The State of Missouri vs. R. P. Holland, Federal Game 

 Warden, defeating Missouri, and establishing forever the 

 entire constitutionality of the migratory bird treaty. It 

 lays in its grave anew the resurrected fetich of State Rights 

 which like an evil spirit has been haunting the halls of Con- 

 gress for five years, and disturbing the dreams of a very 

 few western Senators. 



Incidentally, Attorney-General Frank McAllister, J. R. 

 Reynolds and E. S. Vilmoare of Kansas City, Mo., and 

 M. S. Bodine and Clarence Evans, who were arrested by fed- 

 eral officers at Nevada, Mo., on March 7, 1919, charged with 

 killing ducks in violation of the treaty regulations, now have 

 nothing to do save to walk up to the captain's office and 

 settle. 



