EXHIBIT F. 



ISee pp. Gl, 62 of the Fur Trade Review, New York, issue of Feb., 1911; received at the Congressional 



Library Feb. 7, 1911.] 



Here is the official return made to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor December 

 17, 1910, of the sale of 12,920 fur-seal skins taken on the Pribilof Islands during June 

 and July, 1910, out of which 8,000 skins are the skins of yearling fur seals, all delib- 

 erately and knowangly taken in gross \dolation of the Hitchcock rules of May 1, 1904, 

 and ail of which skins are again falsely certified to the department as legally taken 

 and " not under 2 years of age"; this done by United States I'ish Commissioner Bowers 

 and his subordinate agents on the seal islands of Alaska. 



[Memorandum.] 



FLAYS UNITED STATES SEAL POLICY — ZOOLOGIST TELLS SENATE COMMITTEE METHODS 

 IN VOGUE PRODUCE ONLY WEAKLINGS. 



Washington, February 4, 1910. — An attack upon the Government's policy in caring 

 for fur seals upon the Pribilof Islands in Alaska was made to-day by Dr. William T. 

 Hornaday, of the New York Zoological Gardens, and Prof. H. W. Elliott. They 

 spoke for the Campfire Club of America before the Senate Committee on Conservation 

 of National Resources. 



The speakers declared that under the act of last year, which canceled the lease 

 theretofore held by the North American Commercial Co. and gave control of the 

 killing of fur seals to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, there had been no cessation 

 of wanton killing. 



Dr. Hornaday condemned the policy of weeding out the males when they are babies, 

 leaving only such number as was needed for breeding purposes. He declared that 

 the system left weaklings. (Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer, Feb. 5, 1911.) 



[A memorandum for Senator Heyburn in re illegal and injurious killing of fur seals on the Pribilof Islands, 

 and falsely certified to the Government as proper and legal by its own sworn agents thereon.] 



Saturday, February 4, before the Committee on Conservation of National Resources, 

 Secretary Nagel appeared, and his agent in charge of the seal islands, W.I. Lembkey, 

 made a statement to justify the killing of seals on those islands, as ordered by the 

 Secretary last season and prior to that. 



Mr. Lembkey 's statement, stripped of verbiage, was in effect that — • 



I. He killed no seals under 2 years of age. 



II. He killed no females. 



III. He saved 5 per cent of the male 2 and 3 year olds; killed 95 per cent. 

 Each and every one of those statements is absolutely untrue, for — 



I. He did kill more than 10,000 seals (out of the 12,920 which he took) which were 

 under 2 years of age, and the London records of the sale, December 16 last, if produced, 

 will declare it. 



II. He did kill females, therefore, since at least one-third, if not quite one-half of 

 the 10,000 "long yearlings" and "short 2-year-olds," which he killed last season, were 

 females — since the yearlings haul out in equal numbers, males and females together, 

 and are absolutely alike to all outward form, size, and color. (Lembkey admitted that. 

 He also admitted that he could not tell the skins apart when removed from the bodies 

 as to sex. He also admitted that there was no penalty ever inflicted for killing female 

 seals.) 



Mr. Lembkey was confronted with the proof that he did not even spare the 5 per 

 cent " saved " 2 and 3 year old male seals, but so managed this job that after " sparing" 

 them in June and July he killed them in October and November following, for " the 

 natives' food! " He did not attempt to deny this proof; he could not; it was officially 

 made. 



Henry W. Elliott. 



