304 INVESTIGATION OF THE EUE-SEAL INDUSTRY OE ALASKA. 



such renewal, to wit, H. H. Taylor, president N. A. C. Co. (lessees), dated January 

 27, 1910; H. Townsend, for 'fur-seal advisory board, ' dated January 31, 1910; 

 Alfred Fraser, London agent for the N. A. C. Co. (lessees), January 28, 1910, as follows; 



THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE FRAUDULENT SECRET PERMIT GIVEN 

 BY CHARLES FOSTER TO MILLS, ELKINS AND LIEBES TO KILL SEALS — ■ 

 60,000 SEALS — ON APRIL 11, 1891, AGAINST THE UNANIMOUS OPPO- 

 SITION OF THE AGENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT ON THE SEAL ISLANDS 

 » OF ALASKA. 



1890. July 20. — Chief Special Agent Charles J. Goff and his assist- 

 ants on the Seal Islands of Alaska stop the lessees from killing seals 

 to-day, thereon, because they find that female seals "in milk" are 

 being slaughtered, and that the surplus male life does not exist 

 which is proper to kill. 



1890. August 1.— Chief Special Agent Goff and his assistants, 

 Murray, Nettleton, and Lavender, all unite in separate reports to 

 the Secretary of the Treasury in asking that the work of the lessees 

 be suspended at once on the islands and indefinitely. 



1890. November 19. — Henry W. Elliott, special commissioner, under 

 authority of act approved April 5, 1890, reports urging that the work 

 of the lessees be suspended at once and indefinitely, and that a modus 

 vivendi be established with Great Britain for seven years whereby no 

 killing in the sea or on the land will be done by subjects and citizens 

 of the high contracting parties. 



1891. April 7. — Secretary James G. Blaine agrees with Sir Julian 

 Pauncefote, the British ambassador, to a modus vivendi of at leats 

 one year whereby there shall be no killing on the islands or in the 

 sea of fur seals. (See British Blue Book: Further correspondence 

 respecting the Bering Sea seal fisheries.) 



No. 1. — The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir Julian Pauncefote. 



[Telegraphic] 



Foreign Office, April 17, 1891. 



Bering Sea. — Mr. Blaine's suggestion, which you mention in your private letter of 

 the 7th April, that pending the award of the arbitration on the Bering Sea question 

 all seal fishery should he stopped, both by sea and land, seems worthy of consideration. 



If we approve of it, would Mr. Blaine prefer that the proposal should come from us? 

 (British Blue Book entitled ' 'U. S., No. 2, 1891: Correspondence respecting the Ber- 

 ing Sea fisheries, " presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty, 

 June, 1891. Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Harrison & Sons, St. 

 Martin's Lane, printers in ordinary to Her Majesty, etc.) 



No. 3. — Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury. 

 [Telegraphic— Received Apr. 23.] 



Washington, April 23, 1891. 



I have the honor to report that the Secretary of State returned to Washington and 

 invited me to call on him. 



He expressed himself as gratified at the favorable consideration given by Her Maj- 

 esty's Government to his alternative suggestion, and in response to your lordship's 

 inquiry he said that he would prefer that the proposal, which seemed to him very fair, 

 should come from Her Majesty's Government, etc. 



At this point I can recapitulate, and then carry the story of Mr. 

 Blaine's duplicity and malfeasance in the premises down as follows, 

 seriatim, to wit: 



March 15, 1S91. Sir Julian Pauncefote urges Mr. Blaine to agree upon a modus 

 vivendi for the coming season in Bering Sea, whereby no killing of fur seals shall be 

 done on the Seal Islands of Alaska by American citizens and no killing at sea shall 



