INVESTIGATION OF THE FUE-SEAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA. 97 



EXHIBIT B. 



[The "Carlisle rules" of 1896. Same as "Hitchcock rules" of 1904.] 



Specific details of the violation of the "Carlisle rules," ordered May 

 14, 1896, which prohibit the killing of "yearlings, and seals having 

 skins weighing less than 6 pounds." 



Said rules published on the islands and officially recorded June 17 

 1896. 



Said rules were suppressed and withheld from the knowledge of 

 the House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Com- 

 merce and Labor from May 31, 1911, to July 30, 1913, by the United 

 States Bureau of Fisheries. 



Said rules were never canceled or amended from 1896 to 1904 by 

 any authority of record and legal. The Hitchcock rules of May 1, 

 1904, were the same in effect, and were issued by the Secretary of 

 Commerce and Labor, then in ignorance of the fact that the Carlisle 

 rules were actually in effect, but ignored by the United States agents 

 and the officialism in charge of the islands and by the lessees. 



THE CAELISLE RULES. 



The regulations of the United States Traesury Department, dated 

 May 14, 1896, ordered the agents of its Government to prevent the 

 killing of "yearlings and seals whose skins weigh less than 6 pounds." 



These regulations were violated on the islands that year by those 

 agents of the Government who permitted the lessees to kill more 

 than 8,000 young seals whose skins weighed less than 6 pounds, Dr. 

 David Starr Jordan having taken charge of this killing as the "chief" 

 of the American membership of the Jordan "Joint Anglo American 

 Commission," ignored these regulations and falsified the record of 

 this illegal killing in his "preliminary report of November 7, 1896," 

 "Treasury Document No. 1913," p. 21. (See Hearing No. 14, pp. 

 950-951, postea.) 



The following order of the United States Treasury Department was 

 published on the seal islands June 17, 1896 (see p. 14, United States 

 chief special agent's journal, St. Paul, Island Alaska, under date of 

 June 17, 1896), to wit: 



On page 14 (Official record of journal of the chief special agent in 

 charge of the seal islands), this letter is entered by J. B. Crowley, 

 United States special agent, on page 14 (of the "journal" of this 

 office), under date of "Tuesday, June 17, 1896," and before the 

 killing was begun, to wit : 



Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary, 



Washington, D. C, May U, 1896. 



Mr. J. B. Crowley, 



Special Agent in Charge of the Seal Islands, 



Care North American Commercial Co., 



San Francisco, Cal. 



Sir: I inclose herewith for your information copy of a letter dated the 13th instant, 

 addressed by me to the Secretary of the Treasury and approved by him, in relation to 

 the taking of fur seals on the Pribilof Islands and determining the quota of such seals 

 to be allowed the North American Commercial Co. during the season of 1896. You are 

 instructed to permit said company to take on the islands during the season of 1896 all 



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