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done since 1889. The killing season was closed on Jidy 27, 1896. This year it was 

 extended on St. Paul to August 7, and on St. George to August 11. The quota to be 

 taken was lett to our discretion, and every opportunity was given to the lessees to take 

 the full product of the hauling grounds. Notwithstanding all their efforts, the quota 

 of 1897 shows a decrease of 30 per cent in the class of killable seals, and when we take 

 into account the increased number of drives, and the extension of the times of driving, 

 the difference between the two seasons is even greater. (Fur Seal Investigations, Pre- 

 liminary Report of 1897, Treas. Doc. No. 1994, p. 18, Nov. 1, 1897.) 



Again, Dr. Jordan knew what yearlings were taken for skins, 

 for he described that taking in 1889 as follows, when reviewmg the 

 tables of killing made by the lessees in 1889 as compared with that 

 killing by them in 1890. Dr. Jordan says: 



The contrast here visible between 1889 and 1890 is by no means a measure of cor- 

 responding decrease in the breeding herd. The fact is that the fictitious quota of 

 1889 was made up largelv of yearlings which belonged properly to the quota of 1891. 

 (Fur Seal Inves., 1898, pt. 1, p. 202.) 



When Dr. Jordan certified the catch of 1896 (30,000) to the Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury on Noyember 7, 1896, as being made up of 3 and 

 2 year olds, and did not tell the truth that over 8,000 of these 30,000 

 skins taken by the lessees were yearlings, he knew better. (Treas. 

 Doc. No. 1913, p. 21.) 



He knew better because the lessees did not take any smaller skins 

 in 1896 than they did in 1899. They took the yearlings or "small 

 pups" and "Ex. sm. pups" in 1889, just as Jordan says they did. They 

 took the same "Small pups" and "Ex. sm. pups" in 1896 — 8,000 of 

 them — and Jordan denies the fact; he denies it by ignoring it, and 

 asserting that "22,000 of these" (30.000) were 3-year-olds, when in 

 truth not quite 7,500 of them were. 



The London sales records, which proves the truth of Jordan's state- 

 ment, that the lessees killed yearlings in 1889, also proves the untruth 

 of Jordan's statement that the lessees did not kill yearluigs in 1896. 

 They convict Dr. Jordan of deceit in the matter and of falsifying the 

 record of that killing in 1896 and 1897. 



DR. JORDAN ATTEMPTS TO DENY THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE EARLY 

 ARRIVAL OF THE YEARLING SEALS ON THE HAULING GROUNDS AND 

 THEIR APPEARANCE ON THE KILLING GROUNDS; HE IS FLATLY CON- 

 TRADICTED BY RECORDS OF THE SAME. 



In his final report of February 24, 1898, Dr. Jordan says: 



From the killing during the present season (1896), 15,000 animals too small to kill 

 were turned back. As in the case of the young bulls, some of these, perhap.s many, 

 were driA^en antl redriven, several dri\ es being made from each hauling ground during 

 the season. The actual number represented by this total of rejected animals can 

 not be exactly determined. From this it would seem necessary to suppose that by 

 no means all the younger seals appear on the hauling grounds during the killing 

 season. In fact, the records of the drives show that it is only after the middle of July 

 that the yearlings begin to arrive in numbers, and by the time the killing season is 

 over the great majority of the killable seals are secured, leaving the population of 

 the hauling grounds almost exclusivelv yearlings and 2-year-olds. (Fur Seal Inves. 

 pt. 1, 1898, rept. Feb. 24. p. 99.) 



With the following official ''Records of the drives" staring Dr. 

 Jordan in the face, it seems fairly incredible that he should have 

 written so much untruth as above concerning them in re yearlings. 



