120 MANAGEMENT. 



Mooro's report skins, the customs officials at San Francisco, and 



of 1875. 



the great house of Messrs. Lampson & Com- 

 pany in London are one and all in collusion and 

 conspiracy to defraud the Treasury of the United 

 States. There would, besides, be another diffi- 

 culty to overcome, as it would be necessary to 

 keep false books and false entries, while in fact 

 nothing is so easily detected as false bookkeep- 

 ing." * 

 Employe's of As to the allegations in the Report that Gov- 



lessees as Govern- . . . . 



ment agents. eminent officials were formerly employes 01 the 

 lessees, the United States admit that in one in- 

 stance a Government agent (John M. Morton), 

 who had charge of the administration of the 

 Pribilof Islands, was formerly in the employ of 

 the Alaska Commercial Company, 2 but deny 

 that any similar case has occurred, and assert 

 that the imputation of fraud from such a circum- 

 stance is unwarranted. 



Further vindication of the officials and citizens 

 of the United States, to whom the Commission- 

 ers have seen fit to impute fraudulent practices 

 and conspiracy to defraud the Government of 

 the United States, is considered to be unneces- 

 sary. 



1 Post -p. 283. 



* Gustave Niebaum, post p. 283. 



