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PUE-SEAL HERD OF ALASKA. 



Stejneger denies the quotation : BiitStejuegeriscorrectly quoted. 



Committee on Expendituues ix the 

 Department of Commerce and 

 Labor, House op Representa- 

 tives, 



Saturday, May 4, 1912. 



The committee met at 10 o'clock a. m., 

 Hon. John H. Rothermel (chairman) pre- 

 siding. 



Present: Messrs. Young, McGillicucWy 

 and McGuire. 



Astounding as it appears, there can be 

 but little doubt that the single old bull 

 had served the 526 females on this rookery 

 (Poludinnoye) and was, moreover, in fit 

 condition to keep the youngei Inill at a 

 respectful distance as late in the season as 

 July oO. (Fur Seal Investigations, Pt. 

 IV, 1898, p. 168. by Leonhard Stejneger.) 



statement of leonhard stejneger. 



Leonhard Stejneger, having beeii. 

 duly sworn, was examined, and testified 

 as follows: 



Mr. Elliott. Drive all classe-s — bulls, 

 cows, and pups up together? 



Dr. Stejneger. Gathering in every 

 seal that they could lay their hands on in 

 the Russian Islands, so as not to let pelagic 

 sealers get hold of them. 



Mr. Elliott. Since you have suggested 

 that remarkable order of work on the Rus- 

 sian Islands, you are quoted by one of 

 your associates recently, before another 

 committee, as saying that one bull seal 

 was sufficient to serve 250 or 500 females. 

 Are you really properly quoted there? 



Dr. Stejneger. I am certainly mis- 

 quoted. 



Dr. Evermann. There 's no such quo- 

 tation. 



Mr. Elliott. I have it here published. 



Dr. Evermann. I ask Mr. Elliott to 

 produce it. Now is the time to i^ro- 

 duce it. 



The Chairman. Do you have ii with 

 you? 



Mr. Elliott. Yes; it is here, and I will 

 p;it the whole thing in right now. I hav<- 

 got it right here. I will put it right in, 

 and have it printed. 



Dr. Evermann. I insist it ]je put in 

 now. We want it now. 



Mr. Elliott. It will go light in. Now, 

 I have got it right heie. 



The Chairman. Take your time and do 

 it. Dr. Evermann wants it produced, 

 and I think it ought to be placed in the 

 record if it can be found. 



Dr. Evermann. If he has it, the thing 

 to do is to show it. 



Mr. Elliott. Here it is. [Exhiliiting 

 paper to the committee.] Now, right 

 here, in the Seattle Sunday Times, issue 

 of October 11, 1908, I state to Mr. Frank 

 H. Hitchcock, who has quoted from Dr. 

 Jordan's letter to him, dated January 12, 

 1904 (Swarthmoie College, Pennsylvania), 

 [reading]: 



"Now, most all of these men know bet- 

 ter, but are silent in the shadow of Jordan. 

 Even Stejneger, with his fairy tale of two 



