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Mr. Lembkey. Oh, yes; many times. 



Mr. McGuiee. And paid your way? 



Mr. Lembkey. Always; yes. 



Mr. McGuiee. Always paid y-our own way ? 



Mr. Lembkey. Always paid my way. On this partcular trip I 

 traveled on the vessel of the lessee from the islands to Dutch Harbor, 

 about 200 miles. I left the vessel there and she returned to the 

 islands on what was known as the coal trip. I waited in Dutch Harbor 

 and got on board a vessel called the Luella, which was coming down 

 from Nome after having discharged cargo up there, and travelled on 

 her to Eureka, Cal., where she stopped for two or three days, and then 

 continued her journey with me on board of her, until she got to San 

 Francisco. In this particular trip, to which Mr. Elliott refers, I trav- 

 elled only 200 miles on the company's vessel. 



Mr. Stephens. Was Mr. Liebes on the vessel ? 



Mr. Lembkey. No. 



Mr. Stephens. Or an}^ of the lessees ? 



Mr. Lembkey. No. 



The Chairman. Did you go back on the Homer from San Francisco ? 



Mr. Lembkey. Yes, I took passage on the Homer back from San 

 Francisco. 



Mr. Stephens. You received your appointment about that time, 

 did you not ? 



Mr. Lembkey. I had received my appointment as assistant agent 

 the year previous to 1900. 



Mr. Stephens. At the time you took this trip, or before ? 



Mr. Lembkey. That was a year before I took this trip. 



Mr. Stephens. You received your appointment the year before? 



Mr. Lembkey. Yes. 



The Chairman. Before we go any further, let me inquire whether 

 it is the wish of the committee that we should let Mr. Lembkey pro- 

 ceed, and then ask questions after he gets through ? 



Mr. Stephens. I think we had better do that. 



The Chairman. I am merely making this as a suggestion now. 



Mr. Lembkey. I am perfectly willing to have any member of the 

 committee interrupt my statement at any time he desires for the pur- 

 pose of getting more information on any topic that might arise during 

 my statement. It is a matter, of course, with which I have nothing 

 to do. 



Mr. Chairman. I think the committee will gain time and get better 

 results. 



Mr. McGuire. Mr. Chairman, I take it that this examination will 

 be very much like the examination of Mr. Clark; that the examina- 

 tion of the chair and some of the members of the committee will be, 

 to a greater or less degree, of the nature of a cross-examination; while 

 my own examination of Mr. Lembkey will be to draw out such facts 

 or such statements as he has in his mind that he wants to make. I 

 think I am more or less familiar with the statements and observations 

 he wants to make. In Mr. Clark's examination, the cross-examination 

 we might say, of the chairman was, in the beginning ; that is, the chair- 

 man asked the first questions, while the direct examination was con- 

 ducted more toward the latter part of the examination. I want to 

 get Mr. Lembkey's ideas on a number of propositions that I have in 

 mind. I do not care whether it is first or last, but it rather occurs to 



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