AGRICULTURE AND FOREESTRY UNITED STATES SENATE1916 |
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act of Congress advisory board Agricultural Department Assistant Chief authority bill Biological Survey borders Bureau of Biological Burnham CHAIRMAN commerce clause committee CONG CONGR LIBRARY CONGRESS LIBRARY CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Connecticut constitutionality date of March decision Department of Agriculture Department of Justice district of Kansas E. T. GRETHER February Federal Government Federal law fish warden game law Geer Gilbert Pearson hearing held HOLTHAUS Hornaday hunt Kansas City legislative letter LIBRARY OF CONGR LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Louis Globe-Democrat March 23 March 31 McAdams Mercer Middle West migratory birds migratory game birds migratory-bird law Missouri NELSON opinion preserve prohibit prosecution protection of migratory regulate the killing Senator REED Senator SMITH Senator WADSWORTH SHAFROTH slaughter SMITH of Georgia snipe sportsmen statement Supreme Court T. C. Bottom Territories tion United violation Washington wild ducks wild fowl wild game WINSOR York
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Página 7 - That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to impair the rights of person or property now pertaining to the Indians in said Territory, so long as such rights shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians...
Página 11 - All wild geese, wild swans, brant, wild ducks, snipe, plover, woodcock, rail, wild pigeons, and all other migratory game and insectivorous birds which in their northern and southern migrations pass through or do not .remain permanently the entire year within the borders of any State or Territory, shall hereafter be deemed to be within the custody and protection of the Government of the United States, and shall not be destroyed or taken contrary to regulations hereinafter provided therefor.
Página 7 - ... the right to hunt on the unoccupied lands of the United States, so long as game may be found thereon and so long as peace subsists among the whites and Indians, on the borders of the hunting districts.
Página 7 - The argument now advanced in favor of the continued existence of the right to hunt over the land mentioned in the treaty, after it had become subject to State authority, admits that the privilege would cease by the mere fact that the United States disposed of its title to any of the land, although such disposition, when made to an individual, would give him no authority over game, and yet that...
Página 5 - The Department of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to adopt suitable regulations to give effect to the previous paragraph by prescribing and fixing closed eea?ons, having due regard to the zones of temperature, breeding habits, and times and line of migratory flight...
Página 9 - True, prior to the present act, the laws of the several states were regarded as determinative of the liability of employers engaged in interstate commerce for injuries received by their employees while engaged in such commerce. But that was because Congress, although empowered to regulate that subject, had not acted thereon, and because the subject is one which falls within the police power of the states in the absence of action by Congress.
Página 10 - The Department' of Agriculture, after the preparation of said regulations, shall cause the same to be made public, and shall allow a period of three months in which, said regulations may be examined and considered before final adoption, permitting, when deemed proper, public hearings thereon, and after final adoption...
Página 11 - The Department of Agriculture, after the preparation of said regulations, shall cause the same to be made public, and shall allow a period of three months In which said regulations may be examined and considered before final adoption, permitting, when deemed proper, public hearings thereon, and after final adoption shall cause the same to be engrossed and submitted to the President of the United States for approval: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect or interfere...
Página 5 - ... and any person who shall violate any of the provisions or regulations of this law for the protection of migratory birds shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Página 9 - ... several States, it is conceded, is paramount over all legislative powers which, in consequence of not having been granted to Congress, are reserved to the States. It follows that any legislation of a State, although in pursuance of an acknowledged power reserved to it, which conflicts with the actual exercise of the power of Congress over the subject of commerce, must give way before the supremacy of the national authority.