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Carlisle appeared, and were posted June 16, 1896. The understand- 

 ing must have been perfect between them; for Jordan * in his reports 

 of 1896-97, and final work of 1898, gives Mr. Jos. Stanley Brown 

 great "credit" for the " valuable aid rendered to this work of inves- 

 tigation," by the said Brown. 



To show the committee indisputably how this work of nullifying 

 these Carlisle rules was done on the islands, immediately after their 

 publication thereon, we have made the following copy of the record 

 of the daily killing by the lessees on the Pribilof Islands during the 

 season of 1896: 



Copied from the official entries made in the journal of the United 

 States agent in charge of the Island of St. Paul: These entries show 

 that 30,000 seals were killed in June and July, 1896, and that prac- 

 tically every seal driven was killed to get the quota. In other 

 words, all the seals driven, no matter how large or how small, were 

 killed. 



I. This official showing makes it clear that the "Carlisle orders" 

 of May 14, 1896, brought to the islands June 8, 1896, were not 

 obeyed either by the lessees or the Government agents in charge. 

 And this official record also substantiates the London sales records 

 of the sizes of these 30,000 skins as taken, and sold there in 1896. 



II. And this record also bears out the natives' sworn statement 

 to Messrs. Elliott and Gallagher, agents of the House Committee, 

 Expenditures Department of Commerce, in St. Paul Village, July 

 24, 1913, that "not before 1896 did we ever receive orders to kill the 

 small seals; we began first in 1896, to do so," i. e. — "In 1896, we 

 commenced to take the 5-pound skins to the best of our recollection." 

 (See Exhibit E, postea.) 



Copies of the official entries made by the chief special agent of the 

 seal islands of Alaska in the daily journal of the treasury agent's 

 office, on St. Paul Island, which covers the driving, killing, and tak- 

 ing of 23,842 skins on St. Paul Island and 6,158 on St. George Island 

 during the season of 1896 (total, 30,000): 



Tuesday, June 23, 1896. — A seal drive was made from the west side of Northeast 

 Point. 1.414 seals were killed. All the skins were accepted. (P. 16.) 



Wednesday, June 24, 1896. — A seal drive was made from the east side of Northeast 

 Point. 1,408 seals were taken. The skins were all accepted by the lessees. (P. 16.) 



Saturday. June 27, 1896. — A seal drive was made from Reef, 2,076 seals were killed 

 and their skins were accepted bv the lessees, and salted in trie village salt house. 

 • P. 17.) 



Monday, June 29, 1896. — A seal drive was made from English Bay and Tolstoi, 

 1,398 sealskins were accepted and salted in the village salthouse. (P. 17.) 



Thursday, July 2, 1896. — The drive made from the west side of Northeast Point, 

 1,374 seals taken and accepted. (P. 17.) 



1 The value of Dr. Jordan's "authority" for this illegal and injurious work on the islands is modestly 

 given to the House Committee by United States Commissioner Bowers as follows (pp. 109-111, Hearing 

 No. 2, House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and Labor, June 9, 1911): 



Mr. Bowees. The members of the fur-seal board and of the advisory board, fur-seal service, are as follows: 

 * * * * * * * 



Dr. David Star Jordan, president of Stanford University, who was chairman of the International Fur 

 Seal Commissions of 1896 and 1897, appointed in pursuance of the treaty of February 29, 1892, and whose 

 published report in four volumes is the most comprehensive, thorough, and valuable treatise that has ever 

 been published on all matters pertaining to the fur seal and the seal islands. Dr. Jordan is the most dis- 

 tinguished and best known naturalist in the world. 



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Mr. Bowers. I had in mind getting the best talent I could; I expected probable criticism. 



Mr. Townsend. I am not criticizing you now. 



Mr. Bowees. I endeavored to get the best talent it was possible to get and to act upon their advice in 

 this fur-seal matter. 



