Other minor amendments proposed have for their purpose the effectuation of a simplified plan of issuing the stamps. None of the amendments proposes any change in the fundamentals of the existing law.

TITLE II. INTERSTATE COMMERCE IN GAME AND OTHER WILDLIFE KILLED OR SHIPPED IN VIOLATION OF LAW

The Lacey Act of 1900 (31 Stat. 188) was in large part designed to aid the States by prohibiting shipment in interstate commerce of game and other wildlife killed or shipped in violation of their laws. The customary and ordinary means of transportation of game at the time this act was passed were common carriers by rail and water, and the act was limited to shipment by such carriers. Advent of the automobile, and now the airplane, has introduced means of conveyance of game from State to State that have almost completely supplanted the railroads and water carriers. It is proposed to amend the Lacey Act so that it will apply to the present-day vehicles and methods of transportation.

The Lacey Act made no provision for its enforcement. It is now proposed that the officers of the Department of Agriculture who are charged with the supervision of the subject matter of the act be given authority to make arrests for offenses committed in their presence, to serve warrants issued by authorized courts, and to seize shipments which they may find moving in interstate commerce in violation of the act; in other words to give these officers the same authority in respect to the administration of this act as already has been conferred upon them by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 for the enforcement of that act.

It is proposed also to extend the operation of the Lacey Act to foreign commerce in game and other wildlife.

TITLE III. ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR MIGRATORY BIRD REFUGES

Under the Migratory Bird Conservation Act of 1929 acquisition of areas for migratory-bird refuges, with certain reservations retained by the vendors, is authorized, but the reservations are subjected to regulations made by the Secretary of Agriculture "from time to time." Experience has shown that some owners of very desirable areas are unwilling to convey them to the Government on such indefinite and uncertain terms as regulations made "from time to time." Obviously they may well be justified in their view, and, just as obviously, the Government may reasonably be secured in its interests by providing for enjoyment of the reservations under regulations to be stated in the conveyance at the time of its execution, leaving the vendor who has made the reservation to the general requirement of existing law that he will be subject to the rules and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture governing the general administration of the area as a migratory-bird refuge.

Accordingly it is proposed to amend section 6 of the act of 1929 so that these reservations, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, may be subjected to regulations to be stated in the instrument of conveyance.

It is also proposed to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture, when he finds amongst the lands which he has acquired for migratory-bird refuges small areas which are better adapted to agriculture or some other use than to conservation of wildlife, to exchange such lands for other lands in the same area as may be more suitable for wildlife, and also to utilize some of the natural resources of the refuges, such as timber, hay, and forage, in exchange for useful lands for refuge purposes, and to authorize the Secretary of the Interior on the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture to effect exchanges of unappropriated public lands for privately owned lands in the same State, suitable for migratory-bird refuges.

The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission has considered and endorsed these proposed amendments.

TITLE IV. PARTICIPATION OF STATES IN REVENUE FROM CERTAIN WILDLIFE FEFUGES

The purpose of this title is to authorize payment to the States of 25 percent of any revenue that may be derived from certain wildlife refuges and reservations administered by the Department of Agriculture. It is the application to these refuges of the plan that has obtained under congressional legislation for many years with respect to participation of the various States in revenues from the national forests, and is thought to be equitable and fair to the States. It is also proposed to authorize disposition of surplus animals and products on these reservations or refuges upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine to be for the best interests of the Government, including exchanges for other wildlife.

TITLE V. ACQUISITION OF WILDLIFE REFUGES

This title proposes to authorize the President to allocate out of the appropriation of $4,800,000,000 made by Joint Resolution No. 11 of April 8, 1935, such sum as he may deem necessary or advisable for the acquisition of areas in carrying on the Government's program of wildlife restoration, rehabilitation, and protection. This program is fairly well under way and could be brought to a very satisfactory advancement if the moneys here provided for should be made available.

TITLE VI. TRANSFER OF WIND CAVE NATIONAL GAME PRESERVE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

The Wind Cave National Game Preserve in South Dakota is within the Wind Cave National Park. At the present time the game preserve, as a game preserve, is under the control of the Secretary of Agriculture, and he has maintained a superintendent there. There is no reason why the National Park Service may not care for the game preserve, and so it is proposed by this bill that the Department of Agriculture withdraw therefrom and leave the entire administration of the park, including the game preserve, to the National Park Service. This will effect an economy. The Interior Department is fully in accord with this proposed transfer.

TO WAIVE VISA FEES, HEAD TAX, AND CUSTOMS DUTY FOR CERTAIN ALIENS ACCREDITED TO THE NATIONAL BOY SCOUTS JAMBOREE IN 1935

MAY 14, 1935.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed

Mr. STARNES, from the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany H. J. Res. 285]

The Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, to whom was referred the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 285) to permit the temporary entry into the United States under certain conditions of alien participants and officials of the National Boy Scout Jamboree to be held in the United States in 1935, having considered the same, report it back to the House with amendments and recommend that the joint resolution as amended do pass.

The committee amendments are as follows:

First. On page 1, in line 3, after the word "alien", insert the words "Boy Scout".

Second. On page 1, line 3, after the comma, following the word "participants", strike out the words "officials, and other", and in lieu thereof insert the words, "Boy Scout officials, and Boy Scout executives, who are".

Third. On page 1, in lines 5 and 6, after the numerals "1935", strike out the comma and the words "and members of the immediate families of the foregoing".

The purposes of this joint resolution are to waive the payment of visa fees, of head tax, and of certain customs duties in the cases of Boy Scout participants, Boy Scout officials, and Boy Scout executives, who come, or seek to come, from foreign countries for a period of temporary visit in the United States especially for attendance at the National Boy Scout Jamboree scheduled to be held in Washington, D. C., in August 1935.

During public hearings on this resolution held by your committee, a representative of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America

called attention to the fact that whenever a National Boy Scout Jamboree has heretofore been held in foreign countries the Boy Scouts of America who went from the United States, their officials, executives, and parents were granted the same privileges which this resolution seeks to grant to Boy Scouts, Boy Scout officials, and Boy Scout executives, who come from foreign lands to the jamboree in the United States.

Representatives for the Visa Division of the Department of State, for the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Labor, and for the Bureau of Customs of the Treasury Department, appeared during the public hearings and in each case indicated their respective services had no objection to enactment of the joint resolution in the form as introduced, and approved a favorable report being made by this committee. The committee amendments meet with the approval of those same representatives and also with the representatives of the Boy Scouts of America.

Objection was made during the public hearings to certain provisions of the joint resolution as it was introduced but your committee feels that these objections have been overcome entirely by the amendments adopted and made parts of the joint resolution as it is reported. In its present form, as reported, the benefits granted by the resolution are available only to aliens who are Boy Scout participants, to aliens who are Boy Scout officials, and to aliens who are Boy Scout executives, in each class they are required to be accredited members of delegations to the National Boy Scout Jamboree scheduled to be held in Washington, D. C., August 21 to 30, 1935.

This joint resolution does not exempt these Boy Scout participants, officials, or executives from the necessity of securing a proper visa from the United States consular official abroad before coming here. Their admission and period of their stay are under the rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Labor; while the waiver of certain customs duties is under rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

The provisions of this joint resolution are essentially similar to those contained in Public Resolution No. 1 of the Seventy-second Congress relative to the Olympian Games in 1932. (See 47 Stat. 1.)

Attention is called to the fact that those who are admitted to the United States for a temporary stay as accredited members of delegations attending this National Boy Scout Jamboree will be admitted pursuant to the provisions of the immigration laws, except that payments of visa fees, head tax, and certain customs duties are waived, and that their departure at the conclusion of their temporary stay will be subject to regulation prescribed by the Secretary of Labor under this resolution and also subject to existing provisions of law as contained in section 15 of the Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 162), as amended by the act of July 1, 1932 (47 Stat. 524; U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 8, sec. 215), which reads as follows:

To secure the departure of certain aliens from the United States

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 15 of the Immigration Act of 1924 be amended to read as follows:

"The admission to the United States of an alien excepted from the class of immigrants by clause (1) (except a Government official and his family), (2), (3), (4), (5), or (6) of section 3, or declared to be a nonquota immigrant by subdivision (e) of