Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, AUGUST 2, 1888. 



I VOL. XXXL-No. 3. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



An Emasculated Bill. 



"A Bit of Kennel History." 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Early Days on the Missouri. -n. 



The Spirits of Greever's Camp. 

 Natural History. 



Notes from a Texas Pasture. 



Fresh- Water Pearls. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



After Burro Deer in Old 

 Mexico. 



My Largest Grizzly. 



"Adiiondack Abominations." 



Flight Woodcock. 



The Names of Game Birds. 



The Panther's Scream. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



A Morning on the Stream. 



Salmon in the Hudson. 



The Rangeley Lakes. 



Nova Scotia Trout Waters. 



Miramichi Salmon. 

 Fishculture. 



Natural Food for Young Fish. 



Fishculture. 



The .New York Commission 

 The Kennel. 



Chesapeake Bay Dogs. 



Beagles as Pets. 



The Two Dog Clubs. 



"A Bit of Kennel History." 



English Kennel Club Rules. 



Dog Talk. 



Mr. Belmont's Charges. 



Our Boston Show Report. 



"Disgruntled Associates." 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 

 Yachting. 



New Substitute for the Board. 



A Chip from the Velnette's 



The Norton System. 

 Canoeing. 



W. C. A. Meet. 



Iris — Canoe Yawl. 

 New Publucations. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



merits. For years these people have been hard at work 

 to try to get for themslves a part of the National Park. 

 They have always been bold and shrewd, but they have 

 always been foiled. Never have they done anything 

 more audacious than to try to use Senator Geo. G. Vest's 

 name to help their schemes of robbery through Congress. 

 These people recognize the fact that there is a strong pub- 

 lic feeling in favor of the passage of Senate Bill 283, and 

 that a great deal of earnest effort has been put forth to 

 secure its passage by Congress. They reason that their rail- 

 road bill, after the knock-down blow it received at the last 

 session, has no chance of passing, but that if they can 

 quietly change the Vest bill to meet their selfish ends they 

 may smuggle their schemes of spoliation through 

 Congress. 



There is an old proverb which says Cucullus non facit 

 — the cowl does not make the friar. The title of this 

 bill is not the bill itself. Under that title the measure 

 when it came to the House was one which all who had 

 the public good at heart could cordially approve. Since 

 then, however, the bill has been utterly changed in 

 character. 



We do not believe that the House of Representatives 

 will assent to the passage of the bill in its present form. 

 The last time that the question came up of running a 

 railroad— this same one— through the Park, the House, 

 under the able and eloquent leadership of Mr. S. S. Cox, 

 of New York, promptly crushed the proposition by a vote 

 of 170 to 68. If the question shall come up again, the 

 House, if it understands what it is voting on, will no 

 doubt negative the proposition once more. The railroad 

 schemers take a. great deal for granted' in assuming that 

 the public are such donkeys as to be deceived by a device 

 which, after it has been exposed, is so transparent. 



We should be glad to see the bill as it Game from the 

 Senate passed by the House. It would be a most import- 

 ant measure, and would give the Park the protection it 

 has so long needed. But we hope that in its present 

 shape the bill will be defeated, and that even if it shall 

 pas3 the House, it will fail in the conference committee. 



AN EMASCULATED BILL 



THE Public Lands Committee of the House of Repre- 

 sentatives has at last reported Senate Bill 283, but 

 in such a ragged and tattered condition that we doubt if 

 its own father will recognize it. They have reported it, 

 but in their committee room it has been so emasculated 

 that all its best provisions are gone. 



The Senate'proposed to enlarge the Park, so that it might 

 be a permanent water preserve; the Public Lands Com- 

 mittee have seriously reduced this intended enlargement. 

 The Senate proposed to keep railroads out of the Park; 

 the Public Lands Committee authorizes the Secretary of 

 the Interior to permit a railway to run directly through 

 it. The Senate proposed to establish a form of govern- 

 ment for the Park, so that rules might be enforced and 

 crimes punished; the Public Lands Committee says there 

 shall be no government there. The Senate proposed to 

 have a small force of civil policeman to aid the troops; 

 the Public Lands Committee decides that there shall be no 

 such force. In other words, the Public Lands Committee 

 recommends the passage of the Vest bill, but shorn of all 

 its most important provisions and with one or two new 

 features injected into it, which will do incalculable harm 

 to the reservation. They might better have recommended 

 the passage of the Senate bill with the enacting clause 

 stricken out. 



The Forest and Stream places itself squarely on record 

 as utterly opposed to the bill in its present shape. Alt hough 

 the bill which the Public Lands Committee recommends is 

 known as Senate Bill 283, it is not the bill asked for by 

 the friends of the Park, not the bill for the passage of 

 which tens of thousands of our best citizens have earnest- 

 ly petitioned, not the bill which we have advocated. On 

 the contrary, it is a bill which pleases jobbers and land 

 grabbers, a bill to hand over an important section of the 

 National Park to a railroad corporation. 



The fine hand of the managers of the Cinnabar, Clark's 

 Fork & Cooke City Railroad is readily recognizable in 

 this attempt to use the title of Mr. Vest's bill as a cloak 

 under which to smuggle through Congress a scheme 

 which has failed, and will continue to fail, on its own 



We have before us the report of the Committee of 

 Public Lands, which recommends the passage of the bill 

 for the protection of the Yellowstone National Park. It 

 is an interesting document in some respects and gives a 

 good idea of the attention which has been given to the 

 bill by those who have had it in charge for something 

 over four months. This report was made July 26, by 

 Mr. Wheeler. In the third paragraph of this report the 

 following amendment to the first section is recommended : 



Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby author- 

 ized to grant a right of way to a railroad to run along the bank 

 of the Yellowstone River up to the river called the East Fork of 

 the Yellowstone, and sometimes called Lamar River, thence up 

 said river to the mouth of Soda Butte Creek, thence up Soda 

 Butte Creek to the point where it crosses the line dividing the 

 Territories of Montana and Wyoming, so as to permit the estab- 

 lishment of railroad communication between the town of Cin- 

 nabar and Cook City. 



This is precisely the proposition that was defeated in the 

 House, in 1886, by a vote of 170 to 68. Why should it re- 

 ceive any better treatment now? If passed a railroad will 

 enter the Park, carrying with it a host of employes 

 and loafers, settlements and whisky shops; carrying, too, 

 locomotives breathing out sparks which would constantly 

 fire the timber, trains which would transport hunters, 

 who would destroy the game and carry out the car- 

 casses of the slaughtered animals— if passed, an import- 

 ant area of forest land will be seriously endangered, certain 

 natural wonders in the northeast corner of the Park will 

 be much more exposed to defacement than they are now, 

 and finally, the only winter range for great game in the 

 northern portion of the Park will be thrown open to the 

 hide butcher. 



This railroad scheme is a purely selfish one, advanced 

 by a railroad corporation to get a right of way to Cook 

 City, a town which last winter boasted a bare dozen inhab- 

 itants. Besides this, two other railroads, one from the 

 north and one from the east, are building in to Cook, a 

 place which has no more use for three railroads than a 

 cat has for three tails. It cannot now, and will not for 

 many years, if ever, be able to support a single one. 

 This is old straw and was threshed over years ago, and 

 the situation has not changed a particle since then. 



We have it on the very highest authority that if this 

 provision become law, the Secretary of the Interior will 

 regard it as mandatory, and not as a matter left to his 

 ! discretion. 



The last three pages of the Public Lands Committee 

 report are copied word for word from Senator Mander- 

 son's report from the Committee on Territories on Senate 

 Bill 283, presented to the Senate February 20, 1888. Now 

 when it is recollected that Senator Manderson is fully 

 aware of the needs of the Park and was speaking intelli- 

 gently about the bill, which provided for adequate pro- 

 tection for the Park, and that the Public Lands Commit- 

 tee is speaking about the bill after all the essential provi- 

 sions have been cut out, it will easily be conceived that 

 the Public Lands Committee in copying the Senator's 

 report may have put themselves into a position which is 

 little short of idiotic. This committee after having stricken 

 out of the bill the provisions appointing a commissioner 

 and generally providing for the establishment of a form 

 of government, go ahead and blindly and stupidly copy 

 a page of Mr. Manderson's report which is devoted to 

 nothing else but giving good reasons why this very sec- 

 tion, which the committee has cut out, ought to become 

 a law. In other words, the Public Lands Committee hav- 

 ing cut out a section, gravely advance most cogent rea- 

 sons for retaining and passing it. This is a good sample 

 of the way much public business is done. 



These in detail are the reasons given by Mr. Wheeler 

 for the passage of the section providing a form of govern- 

 ment for the Park, which section the Public Lands Com- 

 mittee have cut out of the bill. These paragraphs refer 

 wholly to matters taken out of the bill by the Public 

 Lands Committee, yet the report is made by that com- 

 mittee. 



In 1872 the organic act establishing the Yellowstone National 

 Park was enacted. This was afterward incorporated in sections 

 2474 and 2475 of the Revised Statutes. The only provision for the 

 protection of the Park, or the enforcement of law within its bor- 

 ders, was that it shoiild be under the control of the Secretary of 

 the Interior, who should make regulations for the care and man- 

 agement of the same. No penalties were provided for the viola- 

 tion of such regulations, nor was jurisdiction vested in any tri- 

 bunal for the punishment of offenses. For a few years succeeding 

 the passage of the act this defect in the law was not seriously felt . 

 At that time there were but few facilities for reaching the Park, 

 and travel to it was exceedingly restricted. When railroad com- 

 munication was established, however, a steady stream of travel 

 set in toward the Park, and this has increased with each succeed- 

 ing year, so that for the last few years thousands of citizens have 

 visited this wonderful region everv season. 



With the advent of a large concourse of people, the necessity of 

 law for the enforcement of order, the protection of the Park, and 

 a clear determination of its boundaries become apparent. Rules 

 and regulations have been made by different Secretaries of the 

 Interior, which they could only enforce by the expulsion from the 

 Park of persons violating the same— in most instances a very in- 

 efficacious remedy. Assured of immunity from punishment the 

 offenders had only to return and repeat their offenses. The large 

 game, the conservation of which is one of the main objects of the 

 Park, has in many instances been slaughtered by skin-hunters 

 and the pretext alleged that it was killed outside the boundaries 

 of the Park. Great destruction has also been wrought by forest 

 fires, either maliciously or carelessly started, while the acts of 

 vandalism in breaking and destroying the beautiful formations 

 have been frequent and have caused much injury. In some in- 

 stances, too, crime of the most serious nature has bean commit- 

 ted and gone unpunished for want of power in any tribunal to 

 take jurisdiction of the same. 



This state of things, constituting a reproach on the national 

 administration, has constantly been brought to the attention of 

 Congress by various Secretaries of the Interior, and many scien- 

 tific and other associations, as well as individual citizens from all 

 portions of the country, have year after year memorialized 

 Congress to pass some measure of protection. 



In the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses acts similar to 

 the one now reported passed the Senate. The present act, like 

 those which preceded it, seeks to afford to the authorities the 

 means of protecting the forests, the game and the natural 

 wonders— the three great objects which make the Park in every 

 sense a national institution to be cared for as such. 



The machinery provided by the act for the administration of 

 justice within the Park is simple and inexpensive, being substan- 

 tially the same as that contained in the act which passed the Sen- 

 ate at the last Congress, but involving much less expense. It 

 involves only the appointment of a local magistrate, who shall 

 reside in the Park and who shall try all violations of the rules 

 made for its preservation. Indictable crimes may be tried in the 

 district court of Wyoming, and the Park magistrate is invested 

 with the power of arresting persons committing such crimes, and 

 have them conveyed to within the jurisdiction of the Wyo- 

 ming court. Adequate, but not too severe, penalties are provided 

 for violations of the rules and regulations. The national laws 

 applicable to places within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United 

 States are made applicable to the Park, except in so far modified 

 by the present act. 



In regard to the government of the Park, the only important 

 change from the act of last year is found in section 4. The civil 

 establishment, consisting of a superintendent and assistant super- 

 intendendents, which formerly existed, and for which provision 

 was made in the act of last Congress, finds no place in the present 

 act. Congress having failed at the last Congress to make any 

 appropriation for such civil establishment, the Secretary of the 

 Interior, as the only means of protecting the Park, requested the 



