AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



1849 



Analysis of statement of Messrs. Stetle's transactions, put in rtidtnee by Major l,ote,m trit- 

 ness on behalf of the United States, shotting the monthly rarninift of Mtttrt. 8ttrle' f t tt, 

 each year from 1858 to 1876, in each department in which they irert employed, after MfMf 

 stock charges and crews' wages. 



Mr. FOSTER. I understand that this paper will be put in, that we will 

 have an opportunity of examining it, and of replying to it, if justice 

 is done. 



Mr. THOMSON. We will have no mistake about that matter. I am 

 quoting from a paper what the result of Major Low's evidence JH. 



Mr. FOSTER. Here is a table of statistics presented and held in the 

 hand, and we are told with what care and by what skillful hands it has 

 been prepared, and yet they do not propose to give even the details 

 from which the result is made up. 



Mr. THOMSON. I will hand over the figures, and you can look at 

 them. 



Mr. FOSTER. I say we are entitled to have it to examine, and we are 

 entitled to reply to it. If the learned counsel is allowed to rad any- 

 thing prepared by Mr. Miall, whom he has had at work all summer and 

 did not see fit to call as a witness, we certainly are entitled to examine 

 it and reply to it. 



Mr. THOMSON. If yon will look at page 402 A of the American 

 dence you will find the table. You will find by that, which contain 

 Major Low's figures, that, from 1858 to 187G, Mr. Steele's vew 

 an average of $393 per month during the time they were cod-f 

 That is what the statement shows; whether it is true or false, I 

 know nor care. These figures also show that, in American w 

 earnings per month per vessel while mackerel-fishing were < 

 while in the bay mackerel-fishery the vessels made per month, U 



