FUR SEALS OF ALASKA. 
CoMMITTEE on Ways AnD M&rans, 
Wednesday,' March 9, 1904. 
The committee this day met at 10.30 o’clock a. m., Hon. Sereno E. 
Payne in the chair. 
Members present: The chairman, Messrs. Dalzell, Grosvenor, 
Tawney, McCall, Metcalf, Hill, Boutell, Watson, Curtis, Williams, 
Robertson, Swanson, Cooper, and Clark. 
The Cuairman. This meeting was called this morning at the request 
of Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, and it is a hearing on the resolution 
(H. J. Res. 124) introduced March 2, 1904, by Mr. Robinson, of Indiana. 
(See p. 57.) Mr. Williams, whom do you desire to hear first? 
Mr. Wruutams. I do not care, but 1 think Mr. Elliott vould like to 
be heard first. : 
Mr. Tawney. How much time do you want? 
Mr. Exxiorr. I can hardly tell you. If I can print these tables and 
facts, 1 will not desire very much time. 
The CuarrMan. Well, how much time? 
Mr. Extiottr. Not over thirty minutes. 
The CuarrMan. We will give you thirty minutes, and you can print 
all you want to. 
Mr. Exxiotr. Then I will try to quit when my thirty minutes have 
expired. 
STATEMENT OF MR. HENRY W. ELLIOTT. 
(See also p. 41.) 
Mr. Exxtiotr. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I 
stood here before you two years ago, and I believe I told you that we 
‘would find trouble if we did not check up our people and the Canadian 
hunters inside of two years. I told you that before the Canadian 
hunters had finished that life our people would accomplish it them- 
selves under existing rules and regulations. We have now come face 
to face with the realization of my prophecy. We have the evidence 
here in black and white. We have the evidence here that during the 
last four years the killing on the islands has run down to the very 
dregs of the young male life which the law allows them to kill. We 
have that evidence in indisputable, incontestable figures furnished by 
the agents of the contractors themselves. We have that evidence fur 
nished by the agents of the Government, although it is clouded, doc- 
tored, and concealed, in the reports of the Secretary of the Treasury. 
I would not be here, Mr. Chairman, if the report of the Secretary 
of the Treasury told you all of the truth. It would not be necessary 
for me to come down here and make an argument of the kind I am 
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