INVESTIGATION OF THE EUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OE ALASKA. 373 



THE DEADLY PARALLEL. 



Lucas attempts to pass a 

 "doped" sales sheet on the com- 

 mittee as a genuine sheet. 



Dr. Lucas. May I make a statement? 

 In all these sales of skins the skins are ad- 

 vertised by weight and not by size. 



Mr. Elliott. Are they advertised by 

 weight? Find an advertisement by 

 weight in the Lampson catalogues and 

 you will find something I have never 

 been able to find. 



Dr. Lucas (reading): 



"C. M. Lampson & Co. exposed to sale 

 by auction at the College Hill public sale 

 room on Friday, December 15, 1911, at 

 2 o'clock precisely, the following goods, 

 viz, 12,002 skins, salted fur seal, Alaska." 



Here follows the table: 



"Lot 1, 1 middling and small, 10 

 pounds, no ounces; 98 smalls, 8 pounds, 

 4 ounces." 



Mr. Elliott. Since when was that put 

 out? 



Dr. Lucas. Last December. 



Mr. Elliott. That is a notation put on 

 by somebody else. 



Dr. Lucas. This is a copy of the list. 



Mr. Elliott. That is not the catalogue 

 of sales in London. 



Dr. Lucas. This is a catalogue of the 

 sales. 



(Mr. Elliott takes paper.) 



Mr. Elliott. I 've got it here. 



Dr. Lucas. Absolutely; hand that 

 , aper back here. 



Mr. Elliott. Certainly. Those figures 

 ought not to have been written on there. 

 They have never been put on in the origi- 

 nal statement, and time of sales of those 

 Bkins. (Hearing No. 12, p. 726, May 16, 

 1912.) 



But he is exposed and pre- 

 vented by the presentation of a 

 genuine sheet. 



Dr. Lucas. Show me one where they 

 are not in. 



Mr. Elliott. I've got it right here. 

 You can look over the London sales cata- 

 logues of the Lampsons like this one for 

 20 years, and you can find neither weight 

 nor measurement. 



Dr. Lucas. Then they don't mean any- 

 thing. 



Mr. Elliott. They do "mean any- 

 thing." How do you suppose these skins 

 are classified? 



Dr. Lucas. By weight. 



Mr. Elliott. No, sir. How could they 

 classify them by weight— get the size by 

 weight? 



Dr. Lucas. Aren't you willing to say 

 that they are classified by weight? 



Mr. Elliott. No; because Mr. Fraser 

 says, on pages 30 to 33 of hearing No. 1, 

 that they are classified by measurement. 



The Chairman. I do not suppose that 

 the people who deal in skins care so much 

 about the weight as the size. It is the size 

 which is needed to cover a person's back, 

 isn't it? 



Mr. McGuire. I do not know how they 

 classify them. There seems to be a differ- 

 ence in these copies. If this is genuine 

 that the doctor has, it seems to me that 

 they sometimes do put in the figures of 

 of weights and sometimes they do not put 

 them in. 



Mr. Elliott. They never have. I have 

 the whole series of catalogues for 20 years. 

 That is a notation made by somebody else, 

 exactly as I might make a notation on it 

 now and here. 



Dr. Lucas. I would like to ask one 

 question, which is if these skins are sold 

 by measurement why is it that they are 

 always alluded to in the sales and on the 

 lists of seals taken as weighing so much? 



Mr. Elliott. I have never known of 

 them being alluded to in that way in the 

 sales. Here is the sales catalogue of the 

 Lampsons' last sale, December 29, 1911. 

 There is not the slightest allusion to 

 measurement or weight there. They are 

 all classified by measurements, which 

 govern the sizes of "small pups, " "mid- 

 dling pups," etc. 



The Chairman. There seems to be a 

 variation in these statements. Is the 

 original document here? 



Mr. Elliott. Here it is. I will put it 

 right in if you like [handing paper to 

 chairman]. (Hearing No. 12, p. 727, May 

 16, 1912.) 



