INVESTIGATION OF THE FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA. 553 



to answer certain charges against Dr. Jordan which are referred to 

 here. 



Mr. McGuire. I was going to ask you about that; so you may go 

 ahead with your statement on that. 



Mr. Clark. At page 185 of this document is this statement; it is 

 in large type: 



Dr. Jordan deliberately falsifies the Russian record in re not killing female seals. 



The Chairman. Page 185? 

 Mr. Clark. Yes, sir, 



Mr. McGuire. Who made that statement? 

 Mr. Clark. Henry W. Elliott. 

 Mr. Stephens. Page 185 of what hearing? 



Mr. Clark. The first hearing — of January 17, 1914. At page 258 

 of the same report it is repeated in large type: 



Dr. Jordan deliberately falsifies the Russian record in re not killing female seals. 

 On page 411, of the same report, it is stated: 



Dr. Jordan falsifies Yanovsky's official report to the Secretary of the Treasury to 

 justify the untruth stated in re ''Russian killing of male and female seals alike." 



That, I submit to this committee, is a serious charge to make 

 against a man of the eminence and character of Dr. Jordan. Let me 

 quote what Dr. Jordan did say, from page 25 of his report. 



Mr. Stephens. What is the date of report? 



Mr. Clark. It is for 1896 and 1897. (Reading:) 



They, however, attempted to limit the extent, rather than reform the character of 

 the slaughter. They still continued to kill males and females alike. 



Dr. Jordan based that remark on these quotations that I have 

 read to you. I submit that he was justified in making that state- 

 ment — that the Russians killed the fur seals, male and female alike. 



Mr. Stephens. Who is it that is referred to there as having killed 

 them? 



Mr. Clark. The Russians, prior to 1834. 



Mr. McGuire. Then Dr. Jordan agrees with the official Russian 

 report ? 



Mr. Clark. Yes. 



Mr. McGuire. With respect to the manner in which the Russians 

 killed the males and females ? 



Mr. Clark. Yes. 



Mr. McGuire. And it is in his agreement with that report that 

 Mr. Elliott said that Dr. Jordan had falsified the records; is that the 

 fact? 



Mr. Clark. That is it. He makes also a specific reference here to 

 a quotation which Dr. Jordan made in his next paragraph, on page 

 25. Dr. Jordan is quoting from the report of a Russian agent, 

 Yanovsky, in 1820, and the quotation is this: 



If any of the young breeders are not killed by the autumn, they are sure to be killed 

 in the following spring. 



Mr. McGuire. Whose statement is that ? 



Mr. Clark. That is the statement which Dr. Jordan quotes from 

 Yanovsky, a Russian agent. 



The Chairman. That was about 1820, was it not? 



Mr. Clark. 1820; yes. 



The Chairman. Can you read Russian? 



