£3 MANAGEMENT. 



Mure of Ee- The Report fails to establish a single instance 

 change °of man- where the management on the Islands or the 

 agemeD e metho( j g em pi y ec i thereon have been changed 



since 1880 from the " appropriate and even per- 

 fect" system adopted in 1870, or where the 

 number of seals killed annually has been in- 

 creased beyond the annual quota of the first ten 

 years of the lease. 

 EeserTation as The Government of the United States reserves 



to charges of 



fraud. t0 an other portion of this Counter Case the re- 



peated and, as it conceives, very unjustifiable 

 insinuations of the Commissioners of the malfea- 

 sance by United States officers, of fraudulent 

 practices of the Alaska Commercial Company 

 when lessees, and of collusion, necessarily im- 

 plied, by the London firm of C. M. Lampson & 

 Company; only stating here, that all such evi- 

 dent attempts to mislead the Tribunal of Arbi- 

 tration and to obscure the true issue are un- 

 founded in fact and unsupported by proof or 

 evidence of any sort. 



All reference, therefore, to the management of 

 the Pribilof Islands subsequent to the introduc- 

 tion of pelagic sealing, when it became a factor 

 in the decrease of the seal herd, the United 

 States repeat, is irrelevant to the true issue — 

 the cause of the present depleted condition of 

 the Pribilof rookeries. 



