EXHIBIT III. 



A certified list of 120,000 yearling sealskins taken by the lessees 

 of the Seal Islands of Alaska between 1896 and 1910, in open self-con- 

 fessed violation of the law and the regulations governing their con- 

 tract, said illegal work being done in combination with certain sworn 

 agents of the Government whose duty was to prevent it. 



Said agents, instead, connived with said lessees and enabled this 

 illegal and ruinous slaughter to be made annually from 1896 to 1910. 



And this illegal and ruinous slaughter and criminal trespass by the 

 lessees * upon the fur-seal herd of Alaska was duly pointed out to 

 Secretary Oscar Straus in detail December 19, 1906, again on May 18, 

 1908, again on December 7, 1908, and repeated in detail to Secretary 

 Charles Nagel April 26,1909, again May 9, 1910, and again May 24, 

 1910. All of said detailed specific charges and proof of this illegal 

 and ruinous killing were ignored and evaded by said Straus and 

 Nagel. 



ANALYSIS OF THE STATUTES WHICH GOVERN THE CONDUCT OF KILLING 

 AND TAKING FUR SEALS ON THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS, BERING SEA, 

 ALASKA, FROM 1869 TO 1913, INCLUSIVE. 



March 4, 1869. Public resolution declaring the Pribilof group of 

 seal islands are a Government reservation. 



July 1, 1870. Act ordering a lease made for 20 years of the seal 

 islands — 1870-1890. It places the entire control of the killing and 

 taking of fur seals in the hands of the Secretary of the Treasury, only 

 fixing a maximum limit of 100,000 seals annually and prohibiting the 

 killing of female seals and seals less than one year old. (See Hearing 

 Xo. 10, pp. 462-463.) 



May 1, 1890. Lease of 1870-1890 expires; new lease for 20 years — 

 1890-1910; no change in act of 1870 made which permits this renewal 

 of said lease to highest bidder, and reserves complete control for the 

 Secretary of the Treasury as to killing and taking seals. (See Hearing 

 Xo. 10, pp. 466-467.) 



May 14, 1896. Secretary Carlisle orders "no yearling seals or seals 

 having skins weighing less than 6 pounds " killed. Posted on the 

 islands June 17, 1896. (See Report of Agents of House Committee 

 on Commerce, Aug. 31, 1913, pp. 75, 76.) 



May 1, 1904. "Hitchcock rules'' ordered to-day by Secretary of 

 Commerce and Labor, who does not know of the existence of the 

 "Carlisle rules" of 1896, and which have been ignored by all officials 

 and the lessees since the day they were posted in 1896. 



1 A conspiracy is a continuing offense, according to the United States Supreme Court. Two men who 

 were the agents in bringing the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Co. within the power of the Sugar Trust, 

 which kept the: efinery idle for years, sought to escape punishment for their part in a conspiracy to re- 

 strain trade and establish a monopoly by pleading the statute of limitations. That act would have run 

 against the inception of the conspiracy, and the trial, adge held that they could not be tried. But the 

 Supreme Court holds, very rationally, that the statute does not protect them, for they continued their 

 conspiracy in restraint of trade within the statutory period.— Philadelphia Record, December 14, 1910. 



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