FUR SEALS OF ALASKA. 19 
Tuurspay, March 10, 1904. 
The committee met (pursuant to adjournment yesterday) at 10.30 
o'clock a. m., Hon. Sereno E. Payne in the chair. Lane 
Members present: The chairman, Messrs. Dalzell, McCall, Hill, 
Boutell, Watson, Williams, Cooper, and Clark. 
STATEMENT OF HON. CHARLES J. FAULKNER—Continued. 
(See p. 10.) ; 
Mr. Fautxner. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I noticed in the 
report of the proceedings as published in the Star yesterday evening 
a statement, alleged to have been made by myself, which, if it con- 
veved that impression to the members of the committee that it does in 
the paper, I desire to correct it this morning, for I certainly had no 
intention of making such a statement. 
That statement was that during the four hours the Senators were on 
the islands Mr. Elliott had the ear of those Senators. I have no 
knowledge whatever of whether Mr. Elliott was on that island or not, 
and my statement was intended to be—and if it did not convey that 
impression I desire to convey it now—that he had had the ear of 
those Senators, but the time when it is impossible for me to state. 
There is avother statement here, Mr. Chairman, that I feel it my 
duty to comment upon. If it was made to this committee in the form 
it is given in this extract, L certainly did not understand Mr. Elliott’s 
remarks. 
I understood him to say that his report, made in 1890, was suppressed, 
but I did not understand him to say that an officer of this Government 
so high as the Secretary of the Treasury, or any other official occupying 
a high position in the Government, had sought and endeavored to force 
him to make astatementof facts which, in his judgment, he did not feel 
to be true. If I had understood that to have been his statement—and 
it so appears in the report of the proceedings as published in the Star— 
I certainly would have made this comment upon that subject: The 
report of Mr. Elliott of 1890 was made to the Secretary of the Treas- 
ury. The reason that it was not received and acted upon as an official 
report, or an official document, was because of the opinion of the Sec- 
retary of the Treasury that it was filled with inaccuracies, the reasons 
for his action being of record in the Treasury Department, which facts 
were in my possession yesterday at the hearing. It is perhaps not 
proper for me to say what those reasons were, but I say to this com- 
mittee that those reasons are upon the records of the Treasury, and 
that any member of this committee or the committee has a right to ask 
for those reasons, and when they shall be received the committee will 
be thoroughly satisfied of the correctness of the position taken by the 
Secretary of the Treasury in suppressing the report. 
Mr. Watson. What report is that? 
Mr. Fautxner. The report of Mr. Elliott of 1890. 
I desire further to say that the controversy over this report of 1890 
did not stop in the Department; that when the United States repre- 
sentatives met before the tribunal of arbitration in Paris they were 
confronted by a demand of the British counsel to present that report 
to the tribunal—either a certified copy or the original, and the tribunal 
of arbitration concurred with the representatives of Great Britain. 
