100 INVESTIGATION OF THE FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA. 



without the killing of female seals." (Hearing No. 14, pp. 950-951, July 27, 1912. 

 House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and Labor.) 



That this law and regulation of the Secretary of the Treasury in 

 1896 was deliberately violated, as above sworn to, and upon the 

 certified London records, so cited by Mr. Elliott, is clearly shown 

 by the following amazing official entry made by the United States 

 Treasury agents in the journal at St. Paul Island Thursday June 9, 

 1892, and following, to wit (p. 2) : 



Thursday, June 9, 1892. — Mr. J. Stanley Brown arrived and took the place of Maj, 

 Williams as United States agent in charge of the seal islands. 



Friday, July 8, 1892. — The entire control and management of the killing grounds 

 and killing of the seals were given to Mr. Fowler, of the N. A. C. Co., by order of 

 Mr. J. Stanley Brown, agent in charge, and Assistant Agent Murray was ordered to 

 count the seals. 



Here we find that the agent of the Government deliberately sur- 

 renders his sworn duty to the agent of the contractors, so that no 

 check upon their killing can be made or will be made by him or his 

 subordinates as to the ages or the sexes of the seals taken. 



When Dr. Jordan came up here in 1896 with those specific orders 

 of the Treasury Department, duly posted by the agent of the Gov- 

 ernment, as above cited, who was the agent of the lessees ? 



Mr. J. Stanley Brown, 1 the very man who, in 1892, as the chief 

 special agent of the Government, issued that order surrendering to 

 those lessees all of the Government control of this seal killing. 



And he, with the shameful approval of the "scientist" Jordan, to 

 get the 30,000 seals allowed them for that year, violated th? law and 

 regulation of May 14, 1896, by taking mors than 8,000 yearlings, 

 which are duly recorded as such in the London sales. 



This is the same Joseph Stanley Brown who went over to Paris in 

 1893 as an "expert," with John W. Foster, and the other tools of 

 the lessees — as an "expert" to plead the cause of the United States'- 

 in behalf of the fur seal of Alaska before the Bering Sea tribunal. 

 The impression which he made upon that tribunal was not lost; that 

 court saw him clearly (as it did Foster), as the thinly disguised agent 

 of the seal contractors or lessees of the seal islands. He pulled off 

 this disguise next year and went up to ths islands as their (the 

 lessees') hired superintendent. 



That this deliberate violation of the rules of the Treasury Depart- 

 ment did not cease, and that these rules were annually violated 

 thereafter, the following sworn testimonv was givsn to the committee 

 May 31, 1911 (Hearing No. 1, p. 10): 



Mr. Elliott. Now, gentlemen, I am <joing to take up the question of what a yearling 

 fur seal is, because upon a distinct, positive understanding of that you alone can act 

 in this business. You can act just as well upon the facts and figures which I lay 

 before you as if you were upon the Islands, and 1 will prove it. 



But before doine: that, allow me to state that following that memorandum to Senator 

 Burnham I wisb to introduce and read the official assertion that yearling male seals 

 were killed for their skins in 1900 and 1901, and the official denial in 1903 that such 

 seals ever were killed for their skins by the lessees of the seal islands — 1903 is the year 

 the Senators saw them killed. 



The assertion, 1901, report Special Treasury Agent Lembkey — you know him, Mr. 

 Nagel; he is your agent in charge to-day. 



1 In his official report dated St. Paul Island, Xov. 1, 1S96, Chief Special Agent I. B. Crowley says: 



"The killing is entirely directed by the agent of the lessees, who directs the grade of seal to be taken." 



Thus the order of J. Stanley Brown of July S, 1S92, was acquiesced in by both Crowley and Dr. Jordan* 



