. Zoological Society bulletin . ddressed the Committee in behalf of the in-sectivorous non-game birds, or even mentionedthem. On April 24, Senator George P. McLean,of Connecticut, introduced a bill (S. 6497) toprotect migratory game and insectivorous birdsin the United States, which was immediatelyreported to the Senate, without amendment. During the remainder of that long and quietsession of Congress, it was not deemed wise torisk a vote on either of the migratory birdbills. The people who do not shoot had notyet spoken. On the floor of the House, February 27, 1913,Mr. Cox, of Indiana, uttere
. Zoological Society bulletin . ddressed the Committee in behalf of the in-sectivorous non-game birds, or even mentionedthem. On April 24, Senator George P. McLean,of Connecticut, introduced a bill (S. 6497) toprotect migratory game and insectivorous birdsin the United States, which was immediatelyreported to the Senate, without amendment. During the remainder of that long and quietsession of Congress, it was not deemed wise torisk a vote on either of the migratory birdbills. The people who do not shoot had notyet spoken. On the floor of the House, February 27, 1913,Mr. Cox, of Indiana, uttered this significantdeclaration regarding the comparative motivepowers of the game birds and the insectivorousbirds in passing the McLean bill: The whole bill is a delusion and a would have been impossible to put the billthrough simply to protect the game birds; andin order to get it through they had to couplewith it a provision about which the fathersof the measure cared nothing whatever! 984 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. GAME SLAUGHTER IX TEXAS: WITH AUTOMATIC AND lUMP GUNS, AS USUAL! In September, 1912, the Zoological Societybegan the greatest educational campaign that itever had prosecuted up to that time. Withthe aid of Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, of the Na-tional Association of Audubon Societies, S. Haskell of the American Game Pro-tective Association, Commissioner John and Dr. Joseph Kalbfus of the Penn-sylvania State Game Commission, and W. Field and Mr. William P. Whartonof Massachusetts, a demand for the Federalprotection of the useful migratory birds wasstrongly presented at Indianapolis, before theFourth National Conservation Congress, Oc-tober 1 to 4. The illustrated report of Dr. Horn-adays Committee on Wild Life Protection ofthat Congress was published by the ZoologicalSociety, and forwarded to 1,850 newspapers,with an appeal for help. Every agriculturalpaper and every State Grange was called uponby letter, for practical assistan
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