February, 1921 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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Suppose, for instance, that Congress 
deemed it proper to open for home- 
stead entry a portion of a public park 
regarded as non-essential for the pur- 
pose for which it was created. Then, 
in such a case, if this park were within 
a State, Territory, or insular posses- 
sion one might admit that the exercise 
of this discretionary power was possi- 
bly beyond judicial intervention, but 
Yellowstone Park is not so located, and 
were Congress to authorize the passing 
of the fee to individual owners there 
would then be created one of the most 
anomalous conditions known to Ameri- 
can jurisprudence, viz./ a tract of land 
privately owned, free from either 
Federal or State jurisdiction, wherein 
the owner could not vote, be taxed, or 
made subject to the usual civil and 
criminal laws, but on the contrary he 
could set up his own government, defy 
all moral laws, and do as he pleased, 
without fear of punishment. As stated 
before, were this land thus severed 
from the Federal domain within a 
State or Territory it would revert and 
become subject to the laws and juris- 
diction of such State or Territory. But 
Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho have 
become States since this land was ap- 
propriated for park purposes, and no 
right of reversion exists, even if the 
lands thus freed from Federal owner- 
ship were contiguous. 
Therefore this legislative power of 
alienation over Yellowstone Park can 
not be exercised by reason of the ex- 
isting legal disability. Such a condi- 
tion should be kept in mind when con- 
tending for the inviolability of the 
rights of the people to use this park in 
perpetuity. And in the preservation of 
this great tract no class or section is 
more interested than the citizens of the 
adjoining States, where this near-by 
pleasure ground, with its perpetual 
overflow of wild game and pure waters, 
assures sport and health, while it at- 
tracts the more distant citizens, who 
spend their means and bring about 
an interchange of hospitality to the 
mutual benefit of all. Let not this com- 
mon meeting ground of the people be 
destroyed, for it is theirs today, and 
should be that of their children in the 
days to come. 
AN ACCIDENT 
IN NATURE 
(continued from page 73) 
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the head to an angle of more than 45 
degrees, and this with the mouth wide 
open and unable to be closed, explained 
its helpless condition. The condition 
was easily reduced, the jaw returning 
forward, mouth closing and gill-plates 
assuming their normal positions. The 
bass was kept for two days and was 
rapidly coming around again. On lib- 
eration it lost no time in making its 
getaway, and I believe it will be all 
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