576 INVESTIGATION OF THE FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA. 



which is entitled, "The deadly parallel on a trained naturalist." On 

 one side is this legend: "Dr. Jordan declares there are no breeding 

 bulls on the rookeries under 8 years of age/' and on the other side, 

 "But his own man Clark denies him, and confirms Elliott." That is 

 in a disguised or printed hand, and is underscored in red. 



Mr. Elliott. I gave that to Mr. Hatton on the island last summer 

 to study it up. 



Mr. Clark. And on the bottom, in Mr. Elliott's handwriting, is : 



It is the 6 and 7-year-old males flushed and ambitious with a sense of their repro- 

 ductive ability that swarm out and do battle with the older ones on these places. 

 (Elliott monograph on Seal Islands, Bulletin 176, U. S. Fish Commission, 1882, p. 107.) 



I call attention to the fact that to produce that deadly parallel 

 this volume of 1200 pages had to be mutilated and four pages cut 

 out of it. 



Mr. McGuire. What volume is that? 



Mr. Clark. Appendix A to this committee's report. 



The Chairman. First of all, Mr. Clark, did you receive that 

 through the mails ? 



Mr. Clark. It was received through the mails, not by myself but 

 by the president of Stanford University, addressed to the president 

 of Stanford University. 



The Chairman. Under a frank ? 



Mr. Clark. No, sir. 



Mr. McGuire. You sa)^ in order to produce that, there had to be 

 four pages cut out of the hearings before this committee ? 



Mr. Clark. I have just been talking to you about the condensa- 

 tion and mutilation oi my 1909 report. Now, this purports to be 

 my 1909 report in just the same way. It is headed, Report on 

 condition of fur-seal herd, 1909." It takes a paragraph from the 

 text of my report, then one from my field notes, and finally last words 

 of my report, "Respectfully submitted, George Archibald Clark, 

 Assistant, etc" In other words, in order to produce that "deadly 

 parallel" a copy of Appendix A had to be cut in four places. The 

 president of Stanford University has received a second parallel 

 which required another cutting of that Government document, and 

 it was numbered 98. It suggests that 98 copies may have been cut 

 and mailed. 



Mr. McGuire. In other words, the records had to be mutilated in 

 order to make that showing ? 



Mr. Clark. Yes. 



Mi\ McGuire. Do you know in whose handrwriting that is ? 



Mr. Clark. That is in the handwriting of Henry W. Elliott. 



Mr. McGuire. And whoever produced that, whether it was Henry 

 W. Elliott or not, had to and did mutilate the record in order to make 

 this showing. 



Mr. Clark. Yes; cut this book. 



I wish to call attention to a few more of these in passing. In this 

 one ( indicating) the reference is made to Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, 

 the honored head Curator of the United States Museum. After mak- 

 ing a quotation from the testimony before this committee, which 

 necessitated the cutting of some hearing, I do not know which, but 

 at the head is — 



Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and Labor, House of 

 Representatives, Saturday, May 4, 1912. The committee met at 10 o'clock a. m. , 



