326 INVESTIGATION OF THE FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA. 



Stejneger denies the quotation: ButStejnegeriscorrectlyquoted. 



Committee on Expenditures in the 

 Department op Commerce and 

 Labor, House op Representa- 

 ttves, 



Saturday, May 4, 1912. 



The committee met at 10 o'clock a. m., 

 Hon. John H. Rothermel (chairman) pre- 

 siding. 



Present: Messrs. Young, McGillicuddy, 

 and McGuire. 



Astounding as it appears, there can be 

 but little doubt that the single old bull 

 had served the 526 females on this rookery 

 (Poludinnoye) and was, moreover, in fit 

 condition to keep the youngei bull at a 

 respectful distance as late in the season as 

 July 30. (Fur Seal Investigations, Pt. 

 IV, 1898, p. 168, by Leonhard Stejneger.) 



statement op leonhard stejneger. 



Leonhard Stejneger, having been 

 duly sworn, was examined, and testified 

 as follows: 



Mr. Elliott. Drive all classes- — bulls, 

 cows, and pups up together? 



Dr. Stejneger. Gathering in every 

 seal that they could lay their hands on in 

 the Russian Islands, so as not to let pelagic 

 sealers get hold of them. 



Mr. Elliott. Since you have suggested 

 that remarkable order of work on the Rus- 

 sian Islands, you are quoted by one of 

 your associates recently, before another 

 committee, as saying that one bull seal 

 was sufficient to serve 250 or 500 females. 

 Are you really properly quoted there? 



Dr. Stejneger. I am certainly mis- 

 quoted. 



Dr. Evermaxn. There <s no such quo- 

 tation. 



Mr. Elliott. I have it here published. 



Dr. Evermaxn. I ask Mr. Elliott to 

 produce it. Now is the time to pro- 

 duce it. 



The Chairman. Do you have it with 

 you? 



Mr. Elliott. Yes: it is here, and I will 

 put the whole thing in right now. I have 

 got it right here. I will put it right in, 

 and have it printed. 



Dr. Evermaxn. I insist it be put in 

 now. We want it now. 



Mr. Elliott. It will go light in. Now, 

 I have got it right heie. 



The Chairman. Take your time and do 

 it. Dr. Evermann wants it produced, 

 and I think it ought to be placed in the 

 record if it can be found. 



Dr. Evermann. If he has it, the thing 

 to do is to show it. 



Mi. Elliott. Here it is. [Exhibiting 



Eaper to the committee.] Now. right 

 ere, in the Seattle Sundav Times, issue 

 of October 11, 1908, I state to Mr. Frank 

 H. Hitchcock, who has quoted from Dr. 

 Jordan's letter to him, dated January 12, 

 190-1 (Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania), 

 [reading]: 



"Now, most all of these men know bet- 

 ter, but are silent in the shadow of Jordan. 

 Even Stejneger. with his fairy tale of two 



