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Mr. McGurRE. It deceived me, too. Do you find anything there 

 in the body of Mr. Elliott's statement where he has cut and covered, 

 taking part of one page and part of another, that would indicate that 

 he had omitted from various pages, in fact, had taken and grouped 

 short extracts as he felt like dohig ? Is there anything to indicate it 

 in the body of the report ? 



Mr. Clark. On page 189 — I wish you would particularly glance at 

 this with me. At the bottom of that page is a statement: 



George A. Clark, sent up in 1909 by Secretary Charles Nagel, and at Dr. Jordan's 

 urgent request, to make an investigation into the condition of the herd, after the 

 effect of thirteen years' killing by the lessees as licensed in 1896, by Dr. Jordan — - 



that is a slander against Dr. Jordan 



Mr. McGulre. Is that true? 



Mr. Clark. That is not true. [Continuing reading:] 



by Dr. Jordan, has this to say, as against the above, anent the interests of the 

 lessees. (Report, 1909, Appendix A, p. 854.) 



Then follow extracts. I spent a full hour trying to see what had 

 been done with these extracts out of my own report. The first para- 

 graph is from page 854, as the reference states. The second para- 

 graph is from page 866. There is a break there and then follows more 

 from page 866, and it is from the bottom of the page. Then follows 

 on the next page a section of a paragraph from the top of page 866, 

 transposing the two pieces. The matter winds up with two para- 

 graphs from pages 850 and 851. Those paragraphs are so thrown 

 together that they make a showing entirely different from what I 

 wanted to make in my report, and in the context is omitted all qualify- 

 ing phrases and explanations necessary to understand what I reported. 



Mr. McGurRE. Then this is not your report and it does not convey 

 the meaning that your full report did ? 



Mr. Clark. It certainly does not. 



Mr. McGurRE. And there is no statement here that would give the 

 reader fairly and honestly an opportunity to understand what had 

 been done. 



Mr. Clark. Xo, but in this statement I will say there are indica- 

 tions of omissions. 



The Chairman. Well, the committee will work that out. 



Mr. McGuire. I know, but I want to get it on the record. These 

 are occurring too often. At pages 104 and 105 there appears what 

 seems to be a special brief of your 1909 report. 



Mr. Clark. I think we have covered that. 



Mr. McGurRE. That is right. There is one other matter, Mr. Clark, 

 that I wanted to call attention to, and I made a note of it but I have 

 mislaid my notes, but it was regarding the sending out of matter, part 

 of which was franked under the franks of various Members. Did you 

 mention it yesterday? I can not find my notes, but will you state 

 whether you have mentioned all the instances where such documents 

 were sent out under this fictitious name? What was that name? 

 I can not recall it. 



Mr. Elliott. Davy Jones. 



Mr. Clark. I was speaking yesterday of the Amos Allen corre- 

 spondence and, as I indicated then, the documents are in the hands 

 of Secretary Kedfield. But I have received certain things since I 

 came home from the North this fall, and I have them here. I should 

 like to refer to them in that connection, and particularly this one 



