122 FUR-SEAL HERD OF ALASKA. 



The fjHAiRMAN. 1 sim])ly wisli to call your attention to the fact that there is a 

 certificate from tlie custoTii ofhoers to the effect that it was recorded in the records of 

 the Gi)vernment in San Francisco that you were the owner at a certain date. 



Mr. Faulkner. 1 have never seen it. 



Mr. LiEBEs. If you will let me see it I will be glad. 



Mr. Faulkner. I have never l)een able to see that, but that Herman Liebes trans- 

 ferred it to H. Liebes & Co. Tlie certificate appears on page 120. 



The ('nAiRiMAN. Herman Liebes and H. Liebes & Co. (Inc.) — is that correct? 



Mr. P'aulkner. Yes. There is a declaration on page 204 showing that Herman 

 laebes is the owner, and on page 120 there is a certificate showing that he transferred 

 it to H. Liebes & Co. on the 17th day of September, 1890. 



The <'iiairman. Yes: that is right. 



Mr. Faulkner. And subsequentlv, on the 29th dav of July. 1891. transferred it to 

 Max Waizman. (P. 856, Hearing No. 13, June 20. 1912.) 



PROOF, SELF-CONFESSED, BY LIEBES, THAT HE HAS FALSIFIED, AS 



ABOVE. 



Tlie Chairm.an. Here is a document purporting to be signed by Max Waizman on 

 the 22d dav of December, 1902, which reads as fol!o\vs: (V. 860. Hearing No. 1?., 

 June 20, 1912.) 



"Know all men by these presents that /, Max Waizman, for value received, have 

 sold and by these presents do grant, assign, and convey to unto Isaac Liebes all my 

 right, title, and interest in and to my claim against the Russian Government for the 

 seisure of the schooner James Hainilion Leiris by the Russian man-of-war Aleut, on 

 Augu.st 2. 1891. whilst 20 miles off Copper Islands, en route to San Francisco, t' getiier 

 with her apparel, equipment, boats, guns, stores, provisions, and 4^26 sealskins, and 

 for breaking up the season^s cruise, the same unto the said Isaac I>iebes. hereby 

 constituting and appointing said Isaac IJebes, my true and lawful attorney, irrevoca- 

 ble in my name, place, and stead, for the purpose aforesaid, to ask. demand, sue for, 

 attach, levy, recover, and receive all such sum and sums of money whicli now are or 

 may hereafter become due, owing and payable for or on account of all or any of the 

 accounts, dues, debts, and demande above assigned; giving and granting unto the 

 said attorney full power and necessary, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as I 

 might or could do. if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation, 

 hereljy ratifying and confirming all that the said attorney (>r his substitute shall 

 lawfiUly do or cause to he done by virtue hereof. 



" In witness vvliereof. I have hereunto .set mv hand and seal the 22d day of Decem- 

 ber, 1902. 



" Max Waizman. 



"Witness — 



"Ben. a. (iolusmith." 



This was an assignment to you of all his right, title, and interest in the claim which 

 he had against tlie Russian Government. 



Mr. Faulkner. I do not understand it in that way. I understand that is an assign- 

 ment to H. Liebes & Co., with power of attorney to Isaac Liebes to collect this money. 



The Chairman. No; it says: 



Haie sold and by these presents do (/rant, assii/n. and convey unto Isaac Liebes all my 

 right, title, and interest in and to ray claim against the Russian Government for the 

 seizAire of the schooner James Hamilton Leivis. 



Mr. Faulkner. Oh, I understood it to be to H. Liebes & Co. 



Mr. Liebes. I thouglit your question was whether he did not transfer the vessel, 

 to me. 



The Chairman. Is this a correct statement of what took plajpe? 



Mr. Liebes. I have no recollection of the document, but if any signature is on 

 there it must be so. 



PEIRCE SWEARS THAT TINGLE TOLD HIM THAT LIEBES "WAS THE 

 OWNER, AND PRODUCES THE PROOF OF IT. 



The Chairman. Did you have all the affidavits and papers on me which were nec- 

 essary to make out a case? I mean copies of the papers. 



Mr. Peirce. To make out the case against the Russian Government, certainly. 

 They are all published in Appendix 1 of Foreign Relations for 1902. They are all 

 published in English. Tlie original preparation of the case was in French. It is 

 quite a volume and ref[jiired a good deal of French writing. 



