Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-01-14 | Page 4 | Federal Migratory Bird Law Not Unconstitutional

1 1 Migratory Bird law LawN No t EW EV YORK YORIo Jan 14 The H.-The The American Game Protective association the N NEW sportsmens sportsmen's national organization brands as erroneous a 11 press dispatch dispatch dis dis- dis patch sent out to the effect that the supreme court at Washington has declared the federal migratory bird law unconstitutional The statement of the association continues ii's as s follows The f fact ct is Js that the so 80 called federal migratory bird law was repealed on July 3 1917 when the president signed the Canadian treaty enabling act The new measure which superseded the old one is a better and bigger law with exactly the same object as the former measure It provides what the former law lacked an efficient machinery for Its enforcement and the governments of this country and Canada are now squarely ely united in the protection of all the birds of the continent north of the Rio Grande What happened at Washington was that the solicitor general asked to have dismissed his own motion before the supreme court which was to test the constitutionality of or the original migratory bird law It was no US use arguing the case cose because there is no longer any Weeks Weeks-McLean law The federal regulations therefore which absolutely protect In this the birds are aro valuable to agriculture and which make open seasons for tho the migratory birds which are arc shot for sport are arc still in effect and the federal department of Justice will vigorously prosecute any violations of these regulations