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Show U FEPSOPOSED Bill to Impose $1 Federal License Generally Favored WASHINGTON. March 4 A hear-in hear-in has iust been held before the i House of Representatives committee on agriculture oh "ill No. :.s23. known I a the Public Shociinr Ground bill This bill orOVldes federal license of I $1 to raise a fund to administer the I migratory bird act rnd to purchase lands Important as breedin-T. feeding, resl and use areas for these water fowl- I The liconses are to be sold at in 1 post offices and the administration of j tho areas is i-- te in the hands of the department of agriculture Little op-ponitlpn op-ponitlpn was voiced tsirle from the resolution passed by the game wardens ward-ens of eliht western states at Salt Lake on January 16 ami t". When the resolution was read ono of the members of the committee brought out the fact that this resolution reso-lution could hardly be considered as voicing opposition, as It commended the enforcement r tho Migratory Bird law and accepted thf- oneratlons of tho federal government within the states tO this end Fnrlher. lhat the public Shooting ground bill Is lib more than an elaboration of the treaty act and ihe migratory bird law. Among those appearing for the bill were game wardeAs from eastern and middle western states, such as Prnn-nvlvania, Prnn-nvlvania, virtrinln Minnesota. Ohio, Kansas and Arkansas, nil actively at work with well defined policies fori culture and development There was no attitude here that the state had plans to lake enre of tho game ai.l the federal ifovernment should n it interfere in-terfere or trespass iinon state rights, They urged the federal licence t raise the funds to buy thse lands upon up-on the grounds that s:-ch -lion was beyond the power or authority of tho States, One state game commissioner .said. "We of tlT state welcome and nree the activities of th federal government govern-ment under vuch a law My state Is doing much and we exoect to do more but there Is room for the fodeml government to rio much In my state. There Is a field of action for both without conflict." OOi |