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Show This, as we have said, left the whole question subject entirely to the will of the United States, since it provided, in offeot, that the right to hunt should oeaso the moment the United States ported with the title t,o its lour1 in the hunting districts. Norestraint was imoosed by the treaty on the power of the United States to sell, althoogh such aala, under the ncrtle.l pdlicg of tlle Guvrr~troent, was a re3olt ndtll-rallv ro roue froon ILR advn~tcoo f the whir8 s*tt~ealOllTsi n rho bullring di*trict3 TO whioh the treaty referred. And this view of tho temporary and precarious nature of the right reserved in the hunting distriots is manifest by the act of Congress creating the Yellowstone Psrk Reservation, far it was subsequently carved out of what constituted the hunting diatricts st the time of the adoption of the treaty, and is a clear indication of the sense of Congress on tho snbjezt. (17 Stat., 32; 28 Stat., 73.) The oonatruction which would affix to the language of the treaty any other meaning than that whioh we have above indicated would necessarily imply that Con-n ress had violated the faith of the Government and defrauded the Indians by proceeding immediahely to forbid hunting in a large portion of the Torritory vbere it is now asserted thore was s, contract right to kill game created by the treaty in favor of the Indiana. The argument now advanced in favor of the continued existenoe of the right to hunt over thelsnd mentioned in the treaty, after it had become subject to State suthoritv. admits that the privilege would cease by the mere faot that the United States disposed of its title any of the land, although such dispasition,whenmade to sn individual, would give him no authority over game, and yet that the privilege aontinued when the United States had called into being a sovereign State, a neoes-sxry iuoident of whose authority was the oompleto power to regulate the killing of pame within its borders. This argument indiaatas at once the conflict between the Fi-g ht to hunt in the unocounied lauds within the hunting districts end the assertion of the power to continua the exercise of the privilege iu question in the State of Wyoming in defiance of it8 laws. That "a treaty may supersede a prior sot of Congress, and an sot of Congre~s snpersede a prior treaty," is elementary. (Tong Yna Tlug u. United States, 149 U. S., 698; The Cherokee Tobaoco, 11 WLLIl., 621.) In the last case it was held that a law of Congress imposing o tax on tohacao, if in confliot with a prior treaty with the Cherokees, was psramonnt to the treaty. Of course the settled role undoubtedly is that repeal8 by implication are not favored, and will not be held to exist if there be any other reasonzble construction. (Copov. Co.oe .. 137 U. S.. .6 82.. and authorities there cited.) But in ascertaining whether both stetutes cuu Ln ~nuintniutdi t is uot to LC conridered th3t any pursibla t h r o r ~ b, y wbicll horh call lm onforreal, must be ~alupu.d, hut only that rrpr31 hy implicstioli must be held not to have taken plaoe if there be a, rewonable constmotion, by which both laws can coexist consistently with the intention of Congress. (United States a. Sixty-seven Packages Dry Goods, 17 How., 87; Diatriot of Columbia u. Hntten, 143 1J. S., 18; Frost v. Wenie, 151 U. S., 46.) The act whioh admitted Wyoming into the Union, as we have said, expressly declared that that State should hiwe all the powers of the other States of the Union, and made no reservation whatever in favor of theindians. These provisions alone considered would be in conflict with the treaty if it was so construed as to allow the Indiana to seek ont every unoccupied piece of Government land and tllereon rlisregmd and violate the Stab law, passed in the undoubted exerci~eo f i t s municipel suthor i t~. But the language of the act admitting Wyoming into the Union,whichreoognized her coequalrights, was merely deolnratory of the general rule. I-n~ ~ P- ollard u. Hsean. 3 How.. 212 (1845). the oontroversv was to the validitv of a ~ ~~ " . , . .. patent from the Knifed Stater TO land3 s i tuoc~i t , ~ I a b s mw~h,i ch 81 t h d~ate ol' tlie fom;rtion of that Ptatu were ,,art of tlnu nlnore of tho JloLilo River 1,etwren high nnd l.~ow maker mark. I twa s he l i that the ahores of nsviesble wetere and the saiillnder ~~~~ - - ~ them wen, l l c r r grnnted byrl~oCosstttntiun to theunited States, 2nd ltenca t l t u illrid- ~liotiuno xereised rhareorer by the l'edard Goterument beloro the fonuntibn of tho |