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The Chairman. Now, then, the answer of Henry W. Elliott is 

 dated No. 17 Grace Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio, November 3. 



Mr. Elliott. That is on the page preceding. It is a printer's 

 error. 



The Chairman. It should be November 13. It is found at 763 

 of hearings No. 12, Sixty-second Congress, and reads as follows: 



Dr. David Starr Jordan, 



Stanford University, Cal. 



Dear Sir: Your letter of the 6th instant has been duly received. With regard to 

 that appearance of my track chart in your report of 1896 you seem to be not quite clear 

 in your mind as to how it got in there as it did. Perhaps the following statement of 

 fact may help you to know its publication there without that credit given to me as its 

 author which is indisputably mine. 



Now, the last paragraph of the letter is as follows: 



With regard to the suspension of all killing on the islands and in the sea for an indefi- 

 nite number of years, I am doing all I can to bring it about, as you suggest; but all 

 private interests must be at once and entirely eliminated from both sides, and any 

 future killing at sea prohibited forever. 



With regard to the "rights" of those Victorian sea wolves, I hope that they will never 

 get a penny for their rotting vessels or then* "good will." They have had far, far too 

 much already at the expense of humanity and decency. Let their vessels rot, and 

 let their owners rot with them. 

 Very truly yours, 



Henry W. Elliott. 



Do you know whether Dr. Jordan received this letter ? 



Mr. Clark. In all probability he did. 



The Chairman. Then on February 5, 1912, pages 771 and 772, 

 at the foot of page 771 appears the following telegram alleged to have 

 been sent by David Starr Jordan to Hon. William Sulzer, House of 

 Representatives, Washington, D. C, and reads as follows: 



Palo Alto, Cal., February 5, 1912. 

 Hon. Wm. Sulzer, 



House of Representatives, Washington, D. C: 

 To incorporate a clause establishing in fur-seal bill a close season prohibiting killing 

 of superfluous males would do no good to herd, but would kill treaty. No one knows 

 this better than the pelagic sealers' lobby, which for 20 years has been led by Henry 

 W. Elliott. 



David Starr Jordan. 



Do you know anything of the sending of that telegram to Mr. 

 Sulzer ? 



Mr. Clark. Yes; as I said yesterday, I recognized this telegram 

 was sent by Dr. Jordan. 



The Chairman. Now, after this telegram was received — there are 

 some copies of it here, Mr. McGuire, which I have had made, and I 

 punctuated it because the man who received it did not punctuate it. 

 It is dated Februarj- 14, but the year is not given; it was received 

 about six days after the Sulzer telegram was received in the House — — 



Mr. wStephexs. That is in hearing No. 12 ? 



The Chairman. Yes. After the Sulzer telegram was exhibited in 

 the House by Mr. Sulzer, and, I think, read by the clerk, because 

 some member asked to have it read, I thought that as chairman of 

 this committee I would send Dr. Jordan a letter and ask him for the 

 sources of his information about Elliott having a pelagic sealer's 

 lobby, and the next morning in a telegram I quoted the Sulzer tele- 

 gram which had been exhibited in the House and stated to Dr. 



