Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-14 | Page 4 | Resolution Aims to Save Buffalo Herd

Resolution Aims to Save Buffalo Herd SALT LAKE. Jan U. Under suspension su-spension of the rules yesterday house concurrent resolution No. 2 introduced introduc-ed by Mrs. Clara Clcgg, providing for the appointment of a committee to Investigate threatened destruction of the herd of bison rn Antelope inland in Great Salt lake, and to report what it' anything, might be done to prevent pre-vent the destruction of the herd, passed pass-ed the lower -house of the legislature. The resolution passed after considerable consider-able discussion, the final vote being 40 to 6, one member being absent, The resolution, as passed on ihlrl reading, Is as follows; Whereas, It Is a matter Of common com-mon report that hunters are being permitted to kill bison from a prl-vutely prl-vutely owned herd on Antelope island, and Whereas It would be a calamltj and disgrace to permit the slaughter of these animals, now about i vilmi, If they can bo waved by reasonable effort ef-fort and means therefore, be it "Resolved, That rbe president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives of the I" tali legislature be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to appoint a lommittec to consist of two members of the son-ate son-ate and two members of the house of representatives to investigate the facts concerning the threatened dest t m t ion of said bison and t' report to the legislators leg-islators now in session within ten d L) -after their appointment, what, If anything any-thing may be dons to the end that said bison inav be Miv.-d li"iu b tiu. -tlon " oo