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Game Wardens' Uniform Law 
Convention. 
Chicago, 111., Dec. 12.— Pursuant to the call of the 
chairman, Sen. J. Herbert Green, of Milwaukee, Wis., 
there assembled to-day at the Great Northern Hotel, in 
this city, the committee chosen last February to act in 
the matter of a uniform game law for the States of North 
Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois, as 
proposed at the game wardens' convention, held at this 
city last February, in which the above States had repre- 
sentation. This original convention was fully reported 
at the time in Forest and Stream, and attracted much 
attention all over the country as being the most intelligent 
and advanced movement for the improvement of West- 
ern game laws which has ever yet been made. * The con- 
vention of last winter was distinguished above all things 
for its common sense. There was a marked absence of 
all sweeping proposals and of all freak measures. The 
men who met here at that time represented the most ad- 
vanced thought on protective matters in their respective 
States, but none the less stood for conservatism and care. 
The best features of the laws of the different States were 
brought forward and discussed, and a series of resolu- 
tions were adopted recommending the drafting of a. bill 
uniform for all the several States, and containing those 
.features which seemed to be generally applicable and 
generally desirable. The resolutions adopted were re- 
ferred to the present committee for consideration. The 
present meeting is the result of the organization of such 
committee. There were present to-day Sen. J. Herbert 
Green, of Milwaukee, Wis. ; Mr. C. E. Whelan, mayor of 
Madison, Wis., and Assistant State's Attorney ; Mr. A, 
L. Lakey, of Kalamazoo, Mich. ; Mr, F. C. Chamberlin, 
of Ironwood, Mich., chairman of the original legislative 
committee; Mr. S. F. Fullerton, executive agent of the 
Minnesota State Fish and Game Commission ; Mr. George 
E, Bowers, State game warden of North Dakota. Col. 
L. E, Feltou, of the Illinois committee, was not present, 
having a misunderstanding as to the time of the meeting, 
but Chicago was represented by Mr. Exline, attorney for 
Warden Loveday, of Illinois, and by Mr. Alex. White, of 
.Chicago. Warden Loveday was out of the city and un- 
able to return in time. Mr. Fullerton was called to the 
secretary's chair. 
It will not be necessary to take up the original draft of 
the resolutions, but there is given the full text of the. 
measures advocated by these interstate representatives, 
the corrected text alone shown. It is the understanding 
that, acting on these recommendations, as shown below. 
Attorney Whelan, of Wisconsin, will draft a bill in proper 
legal form, which will be presented later to the Legisla- 
tures of the States represented. It is thought that the 
draft below will prove of interest to the readers of Forest 
and Stream, as showing what -is thought to be the best 
and most practical game law possible at the present date 
for the five States above mentioned. 
Discussion was taken up section by section, but the. 
action was rapid. The first five sections were adopted 
with little discussion. The section on labeling packages 
of game in such way as to disclose the nature of their 
contents brought out hearty confirmation. Minnesota 
once had such a clause, but repealed it two years ago, 
and has missed it since. The section on common carriers 
was also very important, and brought out much of a 
positive nature bearing on the question of the sale of 
game. Mr. Fullerton said: "If we have the common 
carriers with us we can save a great quantity of game, and 
if we have them under control We can control the mar- 
ket." Mr. Fullerton' s idea is that anything looking to- 
ward the abolishment of the sale of game, or its free 
handling,- is a step in the right direction. The next fol- 
lowing section, giving officers the right of search, was 
another one which was much approved. Section 9, on 
the violation of non-export laws, was adopted without 
discussion of consequence. Section ro. taking up the 
right to follow contraband game, received full discus- 
sion. This measure was called of doubtful constitution- 
ality. Mr. Whelan thought that under the theory that 
the game was the property of the State such a law would 
hold all right. "Yes," said Mr. Exline. "it is the same 
as when I follow a stolen horse into another State and 
invoke the local laws bearing on property rights." This 
was carried with the full understanding of its conse- 
quences in regard to game shipping. Still more thor- 
ough and more in accord with the idea of stopping the 
sale of game was the clause bearing on cold storage pos- 
session of game. If this law is placed on the statute 
hooks of these five States it will be a. merry time for the 
dealers. 
The question of spring shooting was passed withott 
opposition, and it probably will be adopted m all of these 
States except Illinois, where it is an impossibility at 
present. The question of deer seasons arid deer shipping 
brought out long discussion among the wardens. It was 
admitted that the non-export laws are' violated. Mr. Ex- 
line said that he knew of one house in Chicago that got 
$7,000 worth of Minnesota venison at one shipment. Mr. 
Fullerton said. "If I could appoint your warden as my 
agent, as our law proposes, you see you could seize that 
venison for me without any trouble." It was recom- 
mended as a rider to. this clause, that the sale of venison 
should be prohibited in the first five days of the open 
season. 
The matter of the State's ownership in its own game 
was taken up at length, and the action on this matter is 
unquestionably of the greatest importance. If this be- 
comes a law it will bring into force the right to follow 
and seize this game wherever it may be detected. This 
principle, backed by a good law governing the common 
carriers, and the right of search given to deputies, would 
cripple the illegal game business to a very great extent. 
Sections 16 and 17 take up the allied matters of contra- 
band game and interstate shipments. This is really the 
most important part of the work done, and if even half of 
it ever gets into the laws of these five States, the work of 
this convention will have been wonderfully successful and 
efficacious. 
The question of State licenses arose on the matter of 
deer licenses only, but under Mr. Lakey' s motion took a 
shoot which may place it without the realm of absolute 
conservatism, although it is along the line of the present 
tendency of Western game laws. I believe the license 
law idea has come to stay. It will come before the Illinois 
Legislature this winter. As recommended by the com- 
mittee to-day, the law would be made to require a $r. 
license for any kind of shooting by a resident, and a $25 
license for any kind of shooting by a non-resident of the 
State where the shooting is done. I question whether 
so sweeping a' measure can be passed. Should it. be 
passed, it would undoubtedly create a large fund for pro- 
tective work, just as it has in North Dakota, according to 
Mr. Bowers' statement; but while it would be good for 
protectors, I am inclined to think it would be very bad 
for the game, as it would almost certainly make both local 
and non-resident shooters more eager to get their money's 
worth of game. 
Propagation of fish and State stocking came up for 
brief consideration. There then came up the difficult ques- 
tion of open seasons on feathered game. It was found 
pretty hard to get sweeping dates arranged which should 
cover prairie chickens, grouse and quail. Mr. Bowers- 
thought Sept. I would be right for chickens in North 
Dakota. Of course, this would be too earlv for ruffed 
grouse or nuail. Mr. Lakey wished to make the fall dates 
O c t. r? — Dec. '15. This might dr. for Michigan, which 
has a term of years close season on chickens. It would 
not do in any of the States where there are numbers of 
chickens left, and could not be passed as a law. Mr. 
Lakey's motion was lost. There was considerable ponder- 
ing over these matters, and finally at the suggestion of 
Mr. Whelan, of Wisconsin, it was decided to refer back 
these more or less local matters to the Legislatures of the 
different States, with the understanding that it would be 
better not to jeonardize the larger and more mutual 
features of the bill by standing on some date which would 
not be acceptable in some particular State. This prac- 
tically closed the meeting of the committee. 
Space at this time does not offer for further discussion 
of the measures recommended by this committee. The 
tendency is unquestionably good. The sense of the meet- 
ing shows that year bv year ponular sentiment is attest- 
ing the soundness of the Forest anti Stream Platform. 
Stop the Sale of Game. The following of contraband 
game, the ownership of game bvthe State, the regulations 
of the common carriers, the right of search without war- 
rant, are all things which we may well call nails in the 
Forest and Stream Platform Plank. Drive those nails 
and the plank will stay. -So far. therefore, it may be said 
that the action of this committee is above reproach, as 
indeed it is in every particular. The question of State 
licenses for shooters is a thing which will have to bc- 
worl-ed out in actual experience. Whatever may be the 
result of this, it is certain that the men who have eron" on 
record as shown below are entitled to the thanks of all 
sportsmen for the intelligent care, which thev have given 
to these Questions. Now comes the matter of the drafted 
hill and its handling by the separate Legislatures. We 
have all a right to hope, at least, that these Legislatures 
will gn far toward accepting the advice of these men, 
who constitute the mo=t expert talent we have in nro- 
fyctttfe matter^ in the West. The following is the text as 
finally adopted: 
. A BILL 
For the Protection of Fish and Game and providing Uniform 
Laws relative thereto. 
Section 1. It shall be unlawful and prohibited to take, catch or 
kill, or attempt to take, catch or kill in any manner or by any 
means whatsoever, in the waters of Lake Michigan or Lake 
Superior, or any waters tributary thereto, anv whitefish 
or lake trout from and after the fourteenth day of October in each 
vear and up to and including the succeeding thirtieth day of 
November. Any person violating: the provisions of. this section 
shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less 
than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment 
in the county jail not less than thirty nor more than ninety days, 
or bv both "such fine and imprisonment-. 
Section 2. Tt shall be unlawful and is prohibited to fish for, 
take, catch or kill bv any means or device whatsoever anv fish 
of any variety within four hundred feet of any dam or similar 
obstruction. Anv person violating the provisions of this section' 
shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than 
fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county iail not less than 
ten nor more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprison- 
ment:. ' V 
Section 3. Tt shall be unlawful and is prohibited to take, 
catch or kill or have in possession or offer for sate, any fish 
of the following varieties of the length herein specified: _ Black 
hass. eleven inches; white, striped or rock bass, six in Hies; 
black, river or white crappie, eight inches; wall-eyed pike, fifteen 
inches; pike or pickerel, " eighteen inches; brook trout, or any 
other variety of trout except" lake trout, six inches. Any person 
violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction 
thereof, be punished by fine of not less than ten dollars, nor more 
than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less 
ihan ten nor more than sixty days, or by both such fine and 
imprisonment. 
Section 4. It shall be. unlawful to take, catch or kill, or have 
in possession, any whitefish or lake trout of the weight of. less 
ihan one and one-half pounds dressed, or two pounds round. 
Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be 
punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars, nor more than 
fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the counry jail not less than 
ten days, nor more than sixty days. 
Section 5. It is hereby required that any and all packages con- 
taining fish or game shall be labeled in plain letters on the address 
side of the package, so as to disclose the fact that said package 
contains fish or game, and the nature of the said fish or game 
so contained in said package. Any person who shall deliver to a 
■common carrier for .transportation ahy package or parcel contain- 
ing fish or game, which said . p.ackaae or parcel shall not be so 
labelled as herein required, or who. shall place upon said package 
or parcel a falst* statement as to the contents thereof, shall be 
punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five, nor more than 
one hundred dollars, or by -imprisonment in the county jail not 
less than thirty days, nor more than ninety days, or by both such 
fine and imprisonment. 
Section 6; : ' Fyery- person delivering.to a -common carrier a pack- 
age or paroel-containing fish or game shall place upon said pack- 
age the name.and address of the owner or consignor of said pack- 
age or parcel. \ Any person violating the -provisions of this section 
shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by fine of not less 
than ten dollars, nor more than fifty dollars. 
Section 7. It shall be unlawful and is hereby prohibited for 
any common carrier or any agent, servant or employee of a 
common earner, to receive for transportation and transport any 
ackage or parcel containing fish or game unless the same shall 
e labelled as provided in sections 6 and 7 of this act. Any per- 
son, firm or corporatnon violating the provisions of this section 
shall be required to forfeit to the State, of a sum not less 
than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, in 
the discretion of the court. 
Section 8. It is hereby made the duty of every common carrier, 
agent, servant or employee thereof, to permit any officer charged 
with the enforcement of laws for the protection of fish and game 
to examine and open any package or parcel In the /possession of 
said common carrier, or agent, servant or employee thereof, which 
the said officer so charged with the enforcement of said laws shall 
suspect or has reasons to believe contains fish or game protected 
by the laws of the State, and not entitled under such law to be 
transported, or when the said officer shall suspect or have reason 
to believe that the said package or parcel is falsely labelled. Any 
person, firm or corporation refusing to an officer charged with 
the enforcement of the fish and game laws permission to examine 
or open any such package or parcel, or shall in any manner impede 
such action by the said officer, shall forfeit to the State of 
a sum not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred 
and fifty dollars, in the discretion of the court, 
Section 9. It shall be unlawful and is hereby prohibited for 
any person, firm or corporation acting as common carrier to bring 
into this State any fish or game from any State during the time 
that such other State prohibits the transportation of such fish 
or game from said State to a point without the same. Any person, 
firm or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall 
be required to forfeit to the State the sum of not less than 
twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, in the 
discretion of the court. 
Section 10. Any officer of any other State who is by the laws 
of said State authorized or directed to enforce the fish and game 
laws of said State is hereby designated and declared an agent of 
said State within this State. And it shall be lawful for said 
officer to follow any fish or game unlawfully shipped or taken 
from his State into this State, and seize the same, and convey 
the same back to his own State, and so far as concerns said 
fish or game so snipped or brought from said State into this 
State, the laws of the State from which the same was brought 
into this State shall be declared to be and are hereby constituted 
the laws of this State concerning such fish or game. And trans- 
portation companies are hereby authorized to deliver to such 
officer of another State upon submission of proper proof of his 
official capacity, any fish or game so demanded or seized by him, 
and he, the said officer, is hereby authorized to take with him 
such fish or game within this State, in accordance with the laws 
of the State from which the same was shipped, such disposition 
to be made under the supervision of an officer of this State 
authorized and directed to enforce fish and game laws, and the 
expenses of such officer for his assistance shall be made a lien 
upon such fish or .game, or the proceeds thereof. 
Section 13, It shall be unlawful and is prohibited to have in 
possession during the close seas-n therefor, any fish or game, 
whether the same shall have been lawfully or unlawfully taken, 
and it is hereby made the duty of any owner or occupant of any 
cold storage warehouse or building to permit the entry and ex- 
amination of the premises by any officer authorized to enforce fish 
and game laws. And the said owner, occupant, or agent or servant, 
or employee thereof, shall deliver to said officer or agent any 
fish or game in his possession during the close season therefor, 
whether the same shall have been taken lawfully or unlawfully. 
Any person who sh,all have in his possession or under his control 
any fish or game protected by the laws of this State, or who shall 
refuse to permit any officer charged with the enforcement ot fish 
and game laws entry into any cold storage warehouse, and 
possession of any fish or game therein contained, during the 
close season for such fish or game, shall be punished by a fine 
of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred and fifty 
dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not less than sixty 
days nor more than four months, or by both such fine and im- 
prisonment. 
Section 12. It shall be unlawful and is prohibited to hunt for, 
take, catch or kill, in any manner, any aquatic fowl, including 
snipe, from January in each year up to first day of September^ in 
each year. Any person violating the provisions of this section 
shall be punished by a fine not less than ten dollars nor more 
than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less 
than ten days nor mure than sixty days. 
Section 13. It shall be unlawful and is prohibited to hunt for, take, 
catch or kill any deer, buck, doe or fawn, between the twentieth 
day of November and the first day of November of the year following. 
Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be pun- 
ished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than 
one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less 
than two months nor more than six months, or by both such fine 
and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court; provided that 
for five days succeeding the close season for the hunting of 
deer, buck, doe and fawn, as herein specified, said deer may be had 
in possession for the purpose of disposing of the same. [Rec- 
ommended to stop sale also in first five days of season.] 
Section 14. The ownership and title to all fish and game in the 
State of is hereby declared to be in the State, and no fish 
or game shall be caught, taken or killed in any manner, or at 
any time, or had in possession, except the person so catching, 
taking, killing or having in possession shall consent^ that the title 
to said fish and game shall be and remain in the State of 
for the purpose of regulating and controlling the use and dis- 
position of the same after such catching, taking or killing. The 
catching, taking, killing, or having in possession of fish and game 
at any time, or in any manner, or by any person, shall be deemed 
a consent of said person that the title of the State shall be and 
remain in the State for said purpose of regulating the use and 
dispostion of the same, and said possession shall be a consent to 
such title in the State, whether said fish or game were taken within 
or without this State. 
Section 15. It shall be unlawful, and is hereby prohibited, to 
hunt for, take, catch or kill any deer, buck, doe, at any time, 
or in any manner, except the person so hunting for, taking, catch- 
ing or killing such deer, buck, doe, shall at the time of such 
hunting for taking, catching or killing; have in his possession, 
duly issued to him, a license, as herein provided. All persons 
not resident of this State, who shall hunt for, take, catch or kill 
any deer, buck or doe, shall first procure from the Secretary of 
State a license duly authorizing such hunting, taking, catching or 
killing of deer, for the year only in which such license is issued 
and for and during only the open season for the hunting, taking, 
catching or killing of deer, buck or doe as by law provided. The 
fee to be paid to the Secretary of State upon application for such 
license shall be the sum of twenty-five dollars. All persons resi- 
dents of this State, who shall hunt for, take, catch or kill any 
deer, buck or doe, shall first procure from the county clerk 
of the county in which they desire to hunt for, take, catch or kill 
deer, a license duly authorizing such hunting, taking, catching 
or killing of deer, for the year only in which such license is issued, 
and for and during only the open season for the hunting, taking, 
catching or killing of deer, buck or doe, as by law provided. The 
fee to be paid to said county clerk upon application for such 
license shall be the sum of one dollar. Such license shall entitle 
the holder thereof to hunt for, take, catch or kill deer, buck or 
doe in any part of this" State, at the time provided by law for 
such hunting for, taking, catching or killing. [This section was 
ordered amended to cover "all game hunted" beside deer, on a 
basis of $1 for resident license and ?25 non-resident. The measure 
will be drafted.] 
Section 16. The State game warden, or his deputy of every other 
State, is hereby designated the agent of this State for the taking 
possession of, seizing, holding and disposing of any fish or game 
protected by the laws of this State. 
Section 17. It shall be unlawful and is prohibited for any person, 
firm or corporation, or common carrier, to ship into or through 
this State, from any other State, any fish or game prohibited by 
the laws of said State, to be shipped or transported, and it shall 
be the 4uty of the State fish and game warden of this State, or 
his deputy, to seize, hold and dispose of, according to the laws of 
this State, ahy fish or game brought into or shipped into this State, 
or carried through, or attempting to be carried through this State, 
prohibited to be so shipped or transported by the laws of any other 
State, and further to dispose of the same according to the Jaws of 
this State. 
Section- 18. The Commissioners of Fisheries shall have power 
and are authorized to take fish at all seasons of the year from the 
outlying waters of the State for stocking other waters or for the 
purpose of securing eggs for artificial propagation; and shall 
dispose of said fish in such manner as they deem to be the best 
interest of the State; provided, however, that no such fish shall 
be taken except in the presence of the superintendent of fish- 
eries or his agent, authorized in writing. 
Detailed Action. 
Moved by Mr. Lakey that the license law include all 
game hunted, $25 for non-resident and $1 for resident. 
Carried, . ^ — ...^ I 
