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Show BIG GAME FIGHT HITS SNAG IN LAW MEANING 1 (Deseret News.) Developments brought another ' Impa.se between sportsmen of the state and representatives of the .ive.iock industry at a meeting, and developed a thought which, some of those present asserted might reveal a situation that would preclude, or at least hamper ham-per a settlement of the long time controversy between the two factions. fac-tions. Coincident with the statement by . R. H. Rutledge of Ogden, dis-, dis-, trict forester, that the forest service ser-vice would decline to take any hand in the regulation of big game in the state, D. H. Madsen, former fish and game commis- sioner, asserted that the people of Utah had no more right to con-luct con-luct such regulation in the na-' na-' jonal forests than have outsiders. ' The meeting was held in the offices of Newell B. Cook, fish ' and game commissioner, in the : capitol, and was attended by representatives rep-resentatives of the Utah Horse and Cattle Growers' association. It had been called at the request of J- M. Macfarlane, president of the ! hors2 and cattle organization. Should Mr. Madsen's contention ll up, that Utah had no right IQj.re'-;ulate game in the national tinu8- the forest service con-indicritas con-indicritas chief Forester Rutledge --s5--itK Veep hands off the b:g game situation, it would leave big game in the national forests uncontrolled, and the complaint of the livestock industry that the deer and elk were destroying the grazing facilities, would be unmet in the great forest grazing areas. Mi". Macfarlane asserted that deer were overrunning the range in certain sections of the state and unless something was done the stockgrowers "would be forced to take the matter into their own hands." It had been suggested that the forest service assume responsibility re-sponsibility of regulating the big game in the state. In support of this suggestion, Mr. Macfarlane called attention to the fact that the Kaibab decision, as rendered hy "-th-Trilted States supreme thUrt &jthe forest service au-"l'ty au-"l'ty to 'Votect the range and ., Acce said it was a , W.' the federal govern-. govern-. me- into any state and vou-,regulate the affairs of Per onwealth. Is &n then brought out his t0 sa .'he people of Utah M; to regulate the BENEFIT?ithin state " ' ?utside the state. iieral George P. was asked to determine ier the state law gives the commissioner power to take ar"1 - game "dead or alive" Jtl the'' j, of scientific investigation. |