558 INVESTIGATION OF THE FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA. 



Mr. McGuire. That is all news to me; I did not know it. 



The Chairman. Are there any other questions % 



Mr. McGuire. Yes; I want to examine Mr. Clark further. Now, 

 there has been something said about some letters — the Madison 

 Grant letters. What have you to say about those % 



Mr. Clark. I did not quite intend to enter into that, but 



Mr. McGuire (iuterposing) . I want to know about that. 



, Mr. Clark. But it was brought in in my examination. The Mad- 

 ison Grant letters — that is something of a story. 



Dr. Jordan received a letter from Madison Grant which contained 

 the franked envelope of a Member of Congress, and a copy of the 

 Congressional Record it contained, a speech by a Congressman, on 

 which there were notations — scurrilous notations injurious to Dr. 

 Jordan. 



Mr. McGuire. Have you any of those notations with you, or those 

 documents % 



Mr. Clark. The documents are in the hands of the Secretary of 

 Commerce. I put them together and loaned them to him for some 

 use to which he wished to put them, and they have not yet been 

 returned to me. 



But this document had been mailed — we had received several 

 copies of it under the frank of other Congressmen; but Madison 

 Grant had received, in conjunction with it, a postal card signed by 

 Henry W. Elliott, with some writing on it which corresponded 

 exactly to the writing on the edge of the Congressional Record. 



Mr. McGuire. That was inclosed to these parties ? 



Mr. Clark. Yes; but the envelope itself was in an entirely differ- 

 ent handwriting, a very peculiar handwriting. Mr. Grant's idea was 

 that D'\ Jordan had a case against either the Cong r essman or the 

 authorship of the writing, which he felt was established by this sig- 

 nature and copy. The thought was that here was a Government 

 document with private remarks of a revengeful nature on it, and it 

 had been circulated under the frank of a Congressman. 



Mr. Stephens. I would like to know who that Congressman was 

 whose frank was used ? 



Mr. Clark. I would rather not be specific. 



Mr. Stephens. It was not mine, was it ? 



Mr. Clark. No. 



Mr. Elliott. It was William S. Goodwin, of Arkansas. He author- 

 ized me to send it; he had good reasons for it. 



Mr. McGuire. Were there not several franks of Members used? 



Mr. Clark. In the course of time there were, but these were all, I 

 believe, mailed under one Congressman's frank. But in the end we 

 had a good many samples. Dr. Jordan put them together and mailed 

 them to the post-office authorities at Washington, asking that the 

 matter be looked into to see if anything could be done about it. 

 At the end of two months the documents were returned to us with 

 the statement merely that the postal authorities had finished with 

 them. 



The handwriting on the Madison Grant envelope was very peculiar, 

 and it clung in my memory. I looked up some correspondence that 

 I remembered in our university files of seven or eight years previous, 

 and I found that certain letters which were signed "Junius," written 

 on the stationery of a hotel in Cleveland, Ohio, were in the same hand. 



